What do you suggest would be a good way to handle this matter and obstruct the work of account farmers whilst allowing genuine account operators to benefit from any generosity of merits being distributed? Maybe some possible outcomes:
I checked the laat 4 pages of that thread and there were about 16 merits sent in total in about 7 transsctions. Put of close to 80 replies there, only 7 received merits and they were mostly for significant numbers which they caught on other members. This is hardly numbers that needs "handling" to prevent account farming, and no farm can be grown on this except with other means of acquiring regular merits and hoping for the slotary one or two merits there.
It's meta. You can't make self-moderated threads there.
I think the thread is more suited in reputation than in meta.