everyone can ask for merits ( sending and giving between users, that's the point of merit/smerit system ).. there are many users sending merits to each others even that posts doesn't deserve anything... That's a weakness of it. But that's not the question here... I can receive merits from unknown users and also from relatives/friends etc .. So where is the problem? As I've posted few years ago ( her: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2820019.msg28873887#msg28873887 ) about this system. Only selling and buying merits is prohibited. Guys, do you have other points of view?
I laughed out loud after reading this reply. Apart from being able to sign a message, this reply is able to convince anyone that the person behind this account is obviously an old user of the forum with much experience about the happenings in this forum.
He sounded so confident and convincing in his reply. This is a type of offence that could lead to red tagging of lower-ranked accounts, but he gave a resounding crooked reply
This has further confirmed that there are no rigid rules in this forum. Just a matter of case by case. This is the best freedom forum I have seen