1. Merit Farming: Starter of the thread expects members to support him and award him more merit for starting a merit giveaway thread which is pointless in my opinion. This is nothing to do with contributing to the forum. I mean someone just has only 7 sMerit but can't even make a few clicks on different boards to look for merit worthy posts and there they are that telling newbies to post their merit worthy links in their threads.
I don't know why people merit people who start giveaway threads, it seems pointless to me but I don't think there is anything wrong with the threads themselves, If you have sMerits but you don't want to spend hours sifting through all the sludge and spam to find a few good posts then starting threads like that can help. The merit-worthy posts will be presented to you without much effort o your part. There is no use in hoarding smerits.
2. A way to Meriting Alts without getting detected: Very easy to do. Culprit starts a thread with his main accounts that has a few sMerits, maybe 10 and then posts different links from his alts and boom, all alts get merit. The process of account farming goes on an on
Regardless of if they merit their alts through these threads, its very difficult to find out. Some would say starting these threads would make it harder for you to merit your alt(s) without suspicion.
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- At least Merit give away thread starters should be merit sources or very active reputable forum members and the number of merits to be spent has to be high, not just 10-15 sMerits
I think the list of all merit sources is still private, that coupled with a very lose definition of "reputable forum members" will have this solution creating more issues than solving problems