Over the span of time, there will be some arguement based on the opinion on sending sMerits. I may think one post deserves merit while others will not.
Anyway, I think OP deserves to be merited on that ICO review post while this thread is quite unnecessary. Lots of people are getting merit and if everybody creates a thread, meta will just be flooded with unnecessary posts which will definitely not look better.

Everyone has personal views and from that point anyone can put an user to his ignore list. AFAIK, I am also in Jet Cash's ignore list just because I had created a thread kinda sMerit giveaway which perhaps JC didn't like. So, it happens. He didn't enjoy my posts = welcome to his ignore list.