Is it clear the forum is flooded with alt-accounts and farmed accounts. The lengths that some members will go to in order to seek attention and in the process try to get merits is almost beyond belief. I remember the situation surrounding the puppeteer that had at least two known accounts in the CM campaign before he was exposed by nutildah.
You can refuse to believe in something as much as you want - maybe visit the Reputation board and see how many users have been proven to have alt accounts (which they haven't publicly announced), and have been using them for signature/bounty campaigns for years. Just remember the one who was hidden in the CM campaign for years with as many as three accounts and no one discovered him the whole time.