This is weird. The username is similar is it not obvious that they may be the same person, not friends? I guess you know that but you are being sarcastic here.
Can you see what I am seeing here? I think he changed his username that's all. The same number of merit received from the same persons, same day but difference in minutes in the time.
We had this same conversation in the Stair case thread five weeks ago:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5524189.msg64912029#msg64912029I'd like someone to run AI analysis on about fifteen UID's in this thread.