Well, do not let the darkness take you. Your thoughts will always be negative and nothing good will happen to you and attitude always shows what kind of person you are basing on the words and thoughts you expressed.
You are taking all this too personally mate, I actually don't think lovesmayfamilis meant wrong by his post, neither was he stating categorically that your post is a merit hunting one (it's just his idea of it), the thing is that posts of this nature actually look very much like it's somewhat of a merit hunt, though one can never really know what's actually in the mind of a poster, but time and again users make this sort of generic posts and it's more or less a merit hunting technique, if you do not like the idea of being called a merit hunter, I'd advice you try not to make posts like this.
You may be a legendary user or highly reputable user but you will never be always right!
I think that's another wrong idea you've got there op, as far as I know, legendary or reputable users do not feel they are always right, we are here to share our opinions on topics related to Bitcoin and other things as well, opinions may differ slightly, but it's never a show of who is always right, just grow a thick skin in matters like this.