I don't know if you guys are keeping eye on the merit senders to banned users but this one looks suspicious :
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/peanutswar-2762272Most of the top senders are merit sources and its acceptable to send sometimes to accounts that look promising but turn out to be plagiarists or crossing the rules somehow. But this guy is not a merit source at least I could not see is as one. He has sent merit to 19 banned users based on the stats from theymos :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topsendbanIf anyone has the time to make a little deeper check I'll appreciate it
looks quite fishy to me. There are other people in the list with aslo interesting stats..
First of all, I think that stats from theymos count amount of merit sent to banned users, and not the number of banned users that someone merited. With that being said, there is some strange coincidence, as beside the one you already mentioned, 3 more names stick out on that list that don't really have high amount of merit sent, but for some reason they all sent big chunk of their merit to the same banned user,
Serious475Among others, Serious475 received:
-22 merits from
Peanutswar-9 from
Alucard1-7 from
Trinx01-5 from
Eureka_07 Those 4 accounts tend to exchange merit among themselves too:
Alucard1 sent most of his merit to Peanutswar, Trinx01 and Eureka 07
Trinx01 sent 7/10 of his merit to the same account, Serious475. Out of 3 other accounts that received merit from him, two are Alucard1 and Peanutswar
Eureka07 sent most of his merit to Peanutswar, Serious475 and Alucard1
Peanutswar sent most of his merit to Alucard01, Serious475 and Eureka_07
Now whether this is just a coincidence, I don't know. But I do know that merit abuse is kinda hard to prove. Maybe there is something to be found among addresses being used for campaigns, but its getting kinda late here to start that kind of work.