You didn't post the username of these gang members; you just posted the merit link, so let me do it for you.
LFC_Bitcoin, jeremypwr, buwaytress (This will notify them just in case they're using the BitcoinTalk Telegram notification bot).
They are all Legendary Members. I think it doesn't matter if they're giving each other Merit.
Definitely doesn't matter if they're cycling the merits for themselves but I think that what OP is trying to say is that it's a bit unfair that the merits are not fairly distributed to other users that are outside of their clique, at least that's what I believe this is what it means. I guess, the merit sources should up their game if they don't want people like OP to be starting this kind of thread and to you OP, maybe the reason you're not getting the merits or you feel like the merits are distributed unfairly is because you're not posting what qualifies to the people that give merits as quality posts.
They spend tens of millions on sponsorships in the Premier League, but somehow it got stuck that the disputed merit distribution is in their thread.
As far as I know, the amount of merit distributed in the Sportsbet ANN thread is almost insignificant compared to WO (which is more meaningless), but that is another story that has already been discussed.
WO is a forum of it's own, there's no way to describe how that works.