and Bangladeshi occupy leading positions in the exchange of merit within locales. But as long as you don't find any matches, you can't accuse them of farming.
I agree with that, and I must confess that I have sent merits to some of the locals just because they are my locals and to motivate them to write content in our local threads. Some of their posts deserved merits, but some of these members became abusers later, and I exposed more than ten of them. Since you have sent me a merit in my local thread post, I assume you read that with a translator. I stopped sending merits to them when I understood something bad was happening. They denied that they did anything, but as you know, they teleported to the other forum and did the same abuse there. That forum is centralized, and the admin checks everything manually. The local users in question got a red dot (similar to a negative tag) on that forum, and it was applied by the admin, proving they did the same thing here as well.
In this case, I assume they have a soft feeling for their local community member. It could be someone's alt that is known by most of their locals. This is just an assumption, nothing else.