It turns out that on March 15, user sanada.motokage gave him 4 merits for 4 different posts (3 in Chinese or Oriental language). This user is atm with no negative trust but Lauda, who is no longer in DT but I think she was before, left him negative trust as an account trader.
Apart from that, in May 5, cherry11800 gave him the 6 merits he lacked to be promoted to junior member. This user woke up recently from a long period of inactivity. He hadn't posted anything in a year and just wrote two posts the same day, May 5.
If this statements pertains to certain instances that a user with many sMerits or is a merit source gave many merits to a user in his recent posts, then I know it is just a normal thing that someone would do. Recently I was shocked that my Telegram Bot Notifier(brought to you by TryNinja) alarmed me with notification that @The Pharmacist gave me merits (which I am so glad of) from my recent posts that I never expect to be merited! With the issue of constant merit giving especially just for a short period of time given by a user to many of other user's post, then I know it myself that it wasn't really a problem nor should be stereotyped as suspicious merit buying/selling. I guess some merit givers really sees some user's fruitful post then checks if there is other posts of that users worth meriting (not bragging, just sharing).
