Your best bet is going to be reporting the accounts for breaking the rules - thread bumping, spamming, plagiarism, etc.
Am not saying they get tagged for merit abuse, The merit abuse helps reveal the account farming ring.
AFAIK, I have seen very many accounts getting tagged for being an alt of a banned profile, why doesn't it apply in this case since most of the alts have already been auto-banned for various reasons.
Worse still, I have seen a couple of legendary and hero member accounts connected to the ring but they are still loitering in the forum scot-free.
Report the plagiarism, don't worry too much about the Merit abuse. It's a small amount in the total Merit system, theymos doesn't want users to be tagged for that, and eventually they'll run out of sMerit.
My major concern is how we know that certain accounts are connected or alts of already banned profiles with enough evidence through history merit abuse and simultaneous thread bumping and yet they are still active here participating in bounties without a single negative trust and yet we have already witnessed other accounts getting negative trust or banned for ban evasion.
Help me understand. what is the difference between the 2 scenarios?