Thanks for calling my attention, never thought of it that way but I get the point your are making and for transparency I'll resits the urge to do so on both thread. Never knew 1 or 2 merits could cause such harm
I just checked
your Merit history and it shows 55 Merit transactions in "Bitcointalk Community Awards [Voting 2020]" and 21 Merit transactions in "[Vote 2020] Best Bitcointalk Interview". I don't have the time to check all posts now, but if you're only Meriting users who vote for you, that's bad

Any idea why nobody voted for you in the first 2.5 days, but you got 21 votes in less than 2 days after that?
I'm quite easy giving Merit, and often Merit posts just because they're "not spam" or "worth reading.
But I can't think of any valid reason why this gets Merited:
And this doesn't get Merited:
I really enjoyed gmaxwell interview but my vote goes to:
I really like the voting system but my vote goes to
Coincidence?