Are you going to write a post after every merit that Hauneb earns and remind him to edit the remaining count? If there was a de-merit option, this post of yours would definitely deserve it. Just don't spam unnecessarily.
Example i have seen another user posting in this thread with that parten of post, and what I think about that is that, is a way of merit hunting on this thread for members that make such comments so that those members who rank up can gift them merits and those that engage in such practices are either far from the merits next rank and want to keep merit fishing to push them up.
Such comments are spams to me, the other user that have such post editing comments was warned via pm and he since them stopped the practice, and I think we have another case at hand.
Fivestar4everMVP should also endeavour to include this in the rules, that any comment aside from countdown request will be deleted, and he should be more active on this thread to clean it up, because things are beginning to be messy in here, with lots of low quality posters coming here to spam.