As the title says "POSSIBLE" so Im not directly accusing this user or saying that he abuse his power but I would like to hear other users opinion and I it will also highly appreciated if Mr. paxmao will respond on this.
Im going to assume that Mr. paxmao is a merit Source by looking on his merit history.
In this topic there are 3 users involved:
Mr. paxmao :
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/paxmao-1192397Mr. Gothorum:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/gothorum-674078Mr. Compiler:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/compiler-718106Mr. Compiler merit historyhttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=71810614 Merits receive by Mr. Compiler from Mr. paxmao in the last 120 days merited post listed below:https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.43320737 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.42838936 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.42748621 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.42429378 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.41598432 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.40969022 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.40693422 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.40035690 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.39583487 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.38181432 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.37278325 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.37601241 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.37375249 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.37580522 -1 merit
If you are going to review all those post you will notice that most of that post came from a new's on other website's and he just add the source of it,
Im going to assume that this is a trick to receive reasonable merits.Also if you review the post history of Mr. Compiler we can consider him as a 1/2 liner and a spammer on bitcoin discussion board.
38 Merits receive by Mr. Compiler from Mr. Gothorum in the last 120 days merited post listed below:https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.43320737 -10 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.42611790 -3 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.41598432 -10 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.42838936 -5 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.41584362 -5 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.38196884 -2 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.37827750 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.37468111 -2 merit
If you are going to review all of those post you will notice that most of that merited post by Mr. Compiler is also merited by Mr. paxmao.
Also check the dates of those post and the date when he Mr. Gothorum send those merits most of that posted a long time ago and the merit is given almost 1 month after the post, Imagine how Mr. Gothorum dig Mr. Compiler post history?
Heres the example
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.43320737Mr. Compiler posted that on August 2 and Mr. Gothorum send 10 merits just today.
Mr. Gothorum merit history https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=67407813 Merits receive by Mr. Gothorum from Mr. paxmao in the last 120 days merited post listed below:https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.40903958 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.44283895 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.32249666 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.40974079 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.38908597 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.37246777 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--4390017 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--4398040 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.38145072 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.38767088 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.38152427 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.34517595 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.36951077 -1 merit
I can say that most of those post above are meritable post but if you are going to review it on your own all of those post gets merit only by Mr. paxmao and only 1 of those post get merits from others.
Aside from that it seems like Mr. paxmao is reviewing his post history just to make the given merits is reasonable because this post
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.40903958 is made on June 25 and merited by Mr. paxmao on August 27 if you look at this topic it seems like the topic is already dead because it has no reply since August 16.
Merits receive by Mr. Gothorum from Mr. Compiler in the last 120 days merited post listed below:https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.31837578 -9 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.38767088 -2 merit
The posts is reasonable enough to receive the merits but if Im on the situation of Mr. Compiler I would not give Mr. Gothorum 9 merits on a single post because Im just a "member" and I dont have much merit to send 9 merits on a single post.
You will notice that on this 2 posts there's this Mr. freemind1 that also gives huge amount of merits and after reviewing his profile I want to add him to this because he sent a total of 37 merits to Mr. Gothorum and if you are going to review his merit history almost all of his merits given is focused on Mr. Gothorum.
This is the list of post of Mr. Gothorum that receive merits from Mr. freemind1:https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.44988234 -10 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.31837578 -10 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.41694713 -5 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.38767088 -5 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.39668802 -5 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.37225096 -1 merit
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.38976927 -1 merit
On Mr. paxmao I cant see a strong evidence on his merit history because he did'nt receive much amount of merit from Mr. Gothorum and Mr. Compiler,But looking on his merit history most of the merits he sent to other users are reasonable aside from the merits he sent to Mr. Compiler but there are also some users that receive's merits from him that is unreasonable to give.
I can say that Mr. paxmao may not involved with this merit farming but I can also say that there's a easy distribution of merit on their local board.
Examples:
Casamentero fue mi pensamiento inicial ... tal vez emparejamiento? No tienes muchas opciones
Hola, a ver si alguien me da una traducción decente de "matchmaking" en español. Se ofrece un posible puntito de mérito para una traducción simple y buena. Que no sea "emparejar" que es lo mejor que tengo por ahora y no me gusta.
Contexto: hacer parejas de jugadores en una lista para disputar un juego.
Puedes utilizar
"parear"; aunque no es muy utilizado, es más simple y sencillo.
En una palabra está dificil.
Se me ocurre "unir"... "unir jugadores en una lista para disputar un juego.", "Seleccionar", " aunar","enlazar", "acoplar" o "conectar".
Sencillo y simplificado.
Ensamblaje.
Also if you take a look again on the merit history of Mr. Gothorum and Mr. Compiler you will also have a doubt like me.
Lets say my is suspicion is true, if Im on Mr. paxmao position I will also do the same thing I will also take care of that account and I will avoid to give merit to that account because that account is a merit source.As I said at first it will be better if Mr. paxmao respond to this OP to clear things up.
EDIT:
I think this will be more clearer if the merit history dont get deleted every 120 days and it will be more useful for things like this.