He may not have stated that we are abusing merits per se. I think the right word would be farming merits but his language in the first line above indicates such. He's advising Fillipone to put us in his ignore list to teach others a lesson, isn't that an indication that we are merit farmers who are impatient to get the next batch of merits to the point that we'd cheat to do so? He called me out, and I'm just trying to clear the op and nothing more.
 Forgive me if you think I'm overreacting but you'd do the same especially if someone just wakes up one day and decides to pick at your reputation.