I also have cryptohunter on ignore. If you go around trolling and derailing every thread in Meta and Reputation, making it near impossible to have a rational conversation about trust or merit, then this is what happens. It's no one's fault but his own. My status as a merit source does not require or force me to read or merit any user's posts, nor ban me from using the ignore button.
I did click show/hide on the post you linked to, just to see what all the fuss was about. I absolutely disagree that that post deserves merit. I think you are confusing "a lot of effort" with "longer than average". There is nothing in that post that took a lot of effort. It is, as with all this other posts that I've read (granted I've not read the last several hundred or so thanks to the ignore button) lacking a clear point, repetitive, could be condensed down to about two lines, and filled with personal attacks and insults.
If "a lot of effort" was the metric for awarding merits, then pretty much every merit should go to users in Technical Discussion in Scam Accusations. Those are posts that take a lot of time and effort to make, not some rambling insults about a non-existent trust ring.
I'll also just re-quote this in case you haven't read it before:
Aside from that, if people complain about whether things deserve merit at all, then that's something to perhaps think about, but if you conclude that they're wrong, then that's that. You don't need to stress about it or defend yourself constantly. It's conceivable that someday you and I will end up disagreeing too much about this stuff and I'll remove your source status, but it's really not a big deal.
There is a bit of a strange phenomenon here, which does seem to be a good tendency, and it seems to me that there are a decently large number of merit sources who do attempt to grant a decent amount of benefit of the doubt to various shit posters, and even from time to time, might end up meriting the posts of such shitty posters, even though the merit sources are not compelled to do so.
I personally do NOT use the "ignore" button, but I do generously employ "skim function" because sometimes there is a certain amount of garbage tendency that can be spotted within some posts and some kinds of posters... however, there is also some possibility, that later down the line, the same member who has had a history/tendency to shitily post could recover or provide some decent contribution to the then conversation - and I would not completely ruling out such a recovery possibility, even if a fleeting wave of quality or humor or something that provokes meaning or insight to the conversation.
On the other hand, the level of shit the comes out of the keyboards of some posters does sometimes get so highly embedded in my head that it would take a decently large piece of extra contribution for me to thereafter merit the posts of that specific member who, from my perspective, had been historically engaging in such a high level shitty substantive postings.