Theymos is in the best position to make/improve/cancel the merit system if the need arises. He watches over the activities of the forum almost each day if am not mistaken. With or without the merit system, there will always be an abuse in any system. Hiding of the username of who sends merits to who doesn't sit well with me because that is where the main abuse of merit will happen because i can decide to send 100 merits sequentially to a user and no one will notice that it is an abuse because my identity is hidden.
Regarding the abuse of merits, I don't believe that hiding who grants the merits necessarily fosters the abuse of them.
Hey, that is where the abuse of merit will happen even more than what it is now, don't even try to argue it because there is no point there. If i were you, i'll go through the replies of each person in this thread and see what each person is saying then you can agree with the majority instead of continuously making arguments.