Yes, that topic is an outlier and should be excluded.
After excluding all merit circulated in that topic, especially OP, total merit circulation in the forum today till now is nearly normal (based on your given statistics).
In my analysis, the median of intraday merit is 626, so it is normal to see small rises of intraday merits for today to 700 or 800 in total.
Outlier only occur if total intraday merit for today surpass 11xx merits after excluding merit circulated in the Souvenir topic. Let's see.
So far, today there have been just over 350 sMerits awarded (going over the
recent stats)
(1) Potential outliers are days that have intraday total merits beyond 164 or 1118;
(2) Median of intraday merits over the period is 626;
(3) 50% of observed days have their intra-day merits range from 521 to 760 (the interquartile range);
Nope, he might be excluded from merit source list tomorrow.
Only XalOleX will received such deMerits from theymos 😂😂😂