On the other hand, I think a member like yourself could have conducted this investigation, you'd not have to worry about point 1 and 2. Maybe point 3, depending how many people actually care.
What's the end result you hope to achieve, and how is it actionable by any of us? Negative trust for merit giving? If not that, then what?
I've changed all usernames to *** to prevent any drama. Otherwise, all content is original from the date. I sent this to LoyceV on April 05 2023. If anyone doubts it, ask him.
If LoyceV doesn't care, then why should we?
It spans 800+ merits and that is just involving what's been given to one user. Without these merits, he'd be a Hero member, and at the point of legendary...he wouldn't even be a senior member. Again, this does not include the other members who are a part of this "gang".
I don't know who you're talking about here, and frankly I don't care, but if whoever was giving them merits found their contributions to the forum to be valuable, then they are using merits in exactly the way they were intended.
I don't think there's a need to be condescending, you're capable of seeing it for yourself, it almost seems like you are choosing not to. Either way, you've made your position clear. So how about from now forward we leave this here and let third parties (people who have not already posted in this thread) give their opinion?
When such attacks are just for the sake of harming reputation, they should receive the amount of respect they deserve, which is zero. I don't care about perceived transgressions regarding merits. The only time it bugs me is when alt accounts try to leech merits out of sources in the WO thread, but even then I'm not going to conduct an "investigation" into it. Really the main person you should attempt to appeal to is theymos, as he is the one who assigns merit sources.
You think you can tell people what to do and they'll listen. They won't, as you don't really have a reputation here. You obviously still have a lot to learn about how the forum works.