Here's the sad honest truth.

2000 people logged in for the "bcnmdropmadness weekend" this was literally the justification SE needed to say "no damn merges stop asking".

As long as you "quitters" keep logging in for lolloginrewards and stupid point driven gimmicks, there will be no merges, period.

It's cold and simple fact. It LOOKS like people are playing, whether they are or not.

Stop logging your mules in for log in points. (I'm guilty too I log in 10 accounts every day.) Until (we) all stop, there is no point complaining. It's your faults for falling for these tricks that keep merges from being discussed.