I contacted some of the users from my community to give back those merits, would that help anything?
They can't give the merits back (i.e. undo your sending of those merits). If they send their earned sMerits to you that would just compound the issue.
If you're planning to stick around you should read about the trust system (start with this thread we're in) and the
merit system.
As @suchmoon said, sending the merits back to you *could* very likely be perceived as "
back-scratching".
Thing is, if these guys are willing to do whatever you ask, how are they different from alts? :/
Perhaps as a means of "getting rid" of those merits to totally random users, they visit this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5093271.380 I've gone back five pages to April this year, (perhaps go back in that thread even earlier) and gift any posts that are suggested as being merit worthy give *just* *one* merit per user.
Having gone back six months ensures they don't just seed that thread with their own recommendations and one merit per post suggested per user will ensure the merits are cast to the winds in a very random fashion.
Assuming @Rux wants to make amends for past indiscretions. ??
What Rux did was not the proper use of the Merit system, but there was no real harm either.
