I think the admins should come up with some rules/guidelines on this behaviour because I don't think it should be allowed. It's redundant asking for merit because if your post or thread is worthwhile then people will give it merit without having to be instructed to do so. Doing this is essentially begging and in my opinion should be treated the same as begging for bitcoin and the posts either edited to remove the offending part or the post/thread just deleted entirely.