"YOU CANNOT MERIT THAT POST"

[o_e_l_e_o]

I don't think it has anything to do with browser, hacks or deprived sleep
but it has something to do with maximum number of merit you have spent, isn't there a limit cap of 50 per month?
If I counted right, on your merit page, you've sent out 50 merits since april 1st
this could be the only possible reason. And the error message was just an unspecified standard warning

The Pharmacist merited bill gator in this thread, so it can't possibly be that I'm afraid. The limit is that you can only give 50 merit to each user in a 30 day window - you are free to give away 100s of merit in a single day if you so choose, as long as it is spread across multiple users.

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[theymos]

That error happens when some info about the post is missing/undefined. For example, you get that when you try to merit a post by a guest, since those posts don't have a defined user.

[vlom]

What makes you think I got hacked.

i thought that   was enough to show you that it is a joke.

i think you have been hacked  

[o_e_l_e_o]

That error happens when some info about the post is missing/undefined. For example, you get that when you try to merit a post by a guest, since those posts don't have a defined user.

I might just be being stupid here, but then why on the same post did The Pharmacist have the error and no one else did? Surely if the post is missing some info, it is missing the info for everybody?

[bitart]

That error happens when some info about the post is missing/undefined. For example, you get that when you try to merit a post by a guest, since those posts don't have a defined user.

I might just be being stupid here, but then why on the same post did The Pharmacist have the error and no one else did? Surely if the post is missing some info, it is missing the info for everybody?

Just managed to merit it after vlom, so it seems if there were something missing or it was an error, maybe it has been fixed now.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

i thought that   was enough to show you that it is a joke.

My mind has a tendency to just subconsciously filter out emoticons, and they're too small to even read on bitcointalk anyway.

I guess this will forever remain a mystery, but not a biggie.  Thanks again to everyone here who tried to help, and I'll thank you on behalf of AfricanHunter for all the merit he received (lol), which is appropriately more than most currently-active signature campaign spammers have, or will ever, earn.

Going to lock the thread since even Theymos himself responded.

Also:  I did restart my browser, but I'm still getting that same message. 

[theymos]

I might just be being stupid here, but then why on the same post did The Pharmacist have the error and no one else did? Surely if the post is missing some info, it is missing the info for everybody?

Permissions and ignored-boards can also cause info to be missing per-user. In this case I think that it happened because The Pharmacist is ignoring the board in which that post resides.

The ignored-boards page says, "Be advised that by ignoring a board it will be completely inaccessible to you." How it works is that almost all forum systems view you as being not allowed to see the board, just like hidden boards. This is also why you can't quote a post in an ignored board.