I've been in this forum for a while now and I've seen other members earning 50 and 100 + merits per post and are usually merited by a single user which meriting act is carried even in less than a day. So what made you think other users can't earn the minimum of merits here as that of perfectbaby which makes you feel it was to be impossible?
Oh because there's a "baby"included in the "perfectbaby"s" username and you think it's a baby owned account or expected the account to be crawling as baby is implied on the username that can't keep good quality posts to that level?
If that be, that's a wrong thought of you Op.
These are two different scenarios. Yes @perfectbaby was helped by concerned forum users to help him/her rank up since the account was close to becoming a hero member. But that cannot be compared to users who came up with valuable ideas, solutions and educative threads who earned up to 50+ merits due to their efforts and quality. The case of perfectbaby is completely a help from concerned users. By analysis we all know those threads don't deserve those number of merits.
the question of giving merits must be personal
we are not a police state
Everyone can decide how much to give, when to give it and how to give it
the only rule is not to exceed 50 monthly merits per person
if we want a police state that also controls this we are really at the end of our tether.. I repeat whoever gave the credit to Perfectbaby has every right to do so
Every dame right, As far the merit isn't up to 50 per each of the sender there is defaulter here both from the receiver and the senders. I think OP and other users are clarified on issues like this. It still not out of place to raise a concern as this so that the community can trash it once and for all.