How desperate would it be to ask for merits. If we were going to put our shoe in their shoe having trouble in earning merits then probably we can understand why it let them to decide to do PM to beg for merits.
My only wonder is,
What despitate position can a forum user possibly be to beg for merit?
Let's call a spade a spade and vice versa for shovels.
The lay is the lay and should be ahead to else, all be in chaos. Due diligence and putting in the work is sure to give you that which you desire. It's wrong to beg for merit as it abuses the merit system. That been that, if merits were to be dished out because a supposed desperate user PM you, then we are sure to have a lot of desperate users on the forum and again, if merits were to be sold, you can imagine what merchandise it would have been here in the forum and how much chances the financially disabled would have got at earning even one! I guess zero!
It's for the best that it is to be given rather freely based on personal judgement on post quality, creativity and which ever criteria a merit source uses than for it to be through pm oftom a supposed desperate user or being sold.
It's wrong to beg for merit!