Please SmartGold01 rephrase the bolded statement, you did not rank them up you only gave them a few merits to get them closer to the countdown, from your statement it sounds as if you gifted them the entire merits needed to rank up.
Seems you are partially blind or you smoke something before coming to comment here, because I can see you don't read correctly before commenting on post because if you do you would see my plus (+1, +1, +2 or added ) on the users i quoted before commenting on the last person.
Better read before jumping into discussion.
Is there a reason to be an asshole? He is correct. You stated
you just gave them some merits to help them out. I don't think he was trying to be an asshole to you, I think he was just trying to correct your words as they were false.