I stumbled upon this today:
The link leads to this post
Oh, I am going to do one thing before I sign off for now. Since most people are off work/school today because its the weekend, and there should be more people on line than during the week and I have too much merit laying around, the next 5 people to respond to this thread get 30 merit.
Which leads to these posts receiving 30 Merit each:
could really handle some merit!
I'm here!

Oh yeah I'm a merit slut

edit: oops
nice
30 merit left?

Not only does this go against everything Merit stands for, it's also totally off-topic, and worst of all: it's a Merit source (#2 most Merit sent) doing this.
Update: it looks like QuestionAuthority was
removed as Merit source.