OP, are you always in a hurry to congratulate everyone ahead of time? In my country, there is a sign that says that congratulating someone ahead of time brings bad consequences. Bitcoin, right now, is not in the best price shape as we would like, and here you are with your congratulations 
. Looking smart and being smart are two different things.
There is a time for everything; you should not run ahead of the locomotive.
This particular thing isn't a new anymore, because many merit seekers know when someone is celebrating about a Bitcoin special day, they will get merit. So to prevent the other users create new thread about Bitcoin birthday, he create it earlier in order to make people send merit to him . Looking smart and being smart are two different things.There is a time for everything; you should not run ahead of the locomotive.
It's similar like people in Meta section where they congratulate Christmas day earlier, create discussion about April fool's before theymos or Cyrus start it etc. I think everyone especially merit sources need to click ignore button for those users.