Do you think that a neutral tag would be more appropriate for this kind of Merit-abuse? You may be right, but certainly there should be some consequence to abusing the merit system.
I'd say it would.
But if he hasn't understood the system and is begging for merit because he doesn't know better, or even if he DOES know and still begs, that still doesn't make him untrustworthy.
That just makes him a shitposter trying to get merit the easy way.
I won't put him in the same bag as a scammer/thief/extortionist/etc.