I'll buy your evidence here, xtraelv. Even though I still firmly believe these accounts are part of a shitposting bounty farm and that they abused the merit system, I wouldn't have tagged them for just the merit issue and I'll assume they've learned their lesson about that. Hopefully.
Also I apparently stopped paying attention to this thread before marlboroza pretty much posted the same issue with the "airdropped" ETH, because he did post about it back in September. Either way, I'll remove the red trust now.
Better to have guilty men go free than to have innocent men punished. I think you have made the right choice.
Some of the merit data did look a little unusual but if any merit was swapped I doubt they will repeat it.