Seems some people are getting desperate to rank up as a couple of people have messaged me recently as well as a couple of people reporting unsolicited PMs.
Yep, I got one unsolicited PM that I could barely make sense of, but it had to do with merits and I
think the member was asking me to review his post history. I don't consider that merit begging and I actually don't mind if members send me PMs asking me to review their posts, but in this last case I deferred replying to the member since I had a hard time figuring out what he was asking exactly.
PMs that just ask you "plz can u give me 1 mrit" or similar ones (I've gotten those too) should be reported IMO, because they're not asking you to give them merits based on the quality of anything they've posted. Fortunately I haven't gotten any of those in a long time.
By the way, blocking PMs from Newbies is likely the reason I haven't gotten any idiotic merit begging PMs. That's something I'd encourage anyone to do if they've gotten spam PMs from Newbies.