They have clear merit exchanges and they made some suspicious threads.

New member.
What have you learnt from this forum that has actually saved/ you in real life.
Better way to earn a merit .
If the forum keeps losing its vibe, big companies will leave.
What many of us newbies are getting wrong about merit.
My thoughts on how we could reduce shit posts and also stop thread repetition.
The best place for true Bitcoin information is the Bitcointalk Forum.

On top of that, why did this topic get many merit?
GMO food scadal and harmful effects to the society.

Months (in March and May) after thread creation date, merits were sent to that thread and they perhaps created shit topics and let time covered it before exchanging merit silently.
https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=Pi%24%24