The evidence is available, no one wants to acknowledge it or doesn't care enough to do so. Just use ninjastic.space, see how LFC and others like him from the sportsbet.io thread got their merits, from whom, what kind of posts were made (and think, are these actually merit-worthy posts), and there's the proof. Also, the trust ratings on each others profile - some have met sportsbet.io friends/team members irl, which just validates that it is a bit of a merit "circle jerk" (a bunch of friends who are handing each other merits for what otherwise would be considered shitposts, or at the very least, posts that usually wouldn't get merit).

I don't personally care about the merits, I've come back to comment on this thread a few times because I think it's a clear gaming of the merit system, which I think is a problem, and I think that it opens the door to worse things that can be done either by sportsbet or the members who are benefiting from artificially ranking up their profiles and being perceived as HQ members, when in reality, majority of their merit came from shit posting in a gambling thread with their buddies.

inb4 the target comes back on my back merely for making this comment!