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Maybe, but I personally find it useless to send merit to any of those accounts as they can't send merit back to other members, meaning its wasted.
I agree with you and so far I have the same thoughts and habits. I try not to send merit to banned accounts, inactive accounts or accounts that are knownthe owner have passed away, it's just a waste of merit that will probably not be in circulation anymore after the account receives it. I try to avoid it, but people can do whatever they want for one reason or another. For example, what some user do to satoshi posts like this one:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2216.msg29280#msg29280It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.