This isn't begging, and I don't really see anything necessarily wrong with it EXCEPT the first thing that came to mind was that there could be an alt of OP sprinkled among the quoted posts.  I recognize the first 4 members but haven't heard of the others.  It'd be a pretty sneaky trick to start up a thread with "Hey guys, plz merit these great posts!" and list some good posts from fairly established members, with the alt account somewhere in the mix.  I'm not saying this is the case, but you can see the danger in threads like this when intentions aren't pure. 

As I stated in another thread (and it's probably common knowledge here anyway), anything people can abuse here, they will.  Idiots are so desperate to rank up so that they can boost their forum earnings that they'll do anything they can to get merits.  I have no doubt they sit up at night thinking of clever ways to trick people into handing them over.