No, I do not need your Merit. In fact, I do not need Merit from any of you, unless you expect Merit from me without me being a Merit Source.
Source or not, you should no give merits in the expectation that the person would return the favour. No one expects merits from anyone in particular, you just merit what you find worthy of merits.
I support that this behavior is unfit for a forum user, much less for a merit source.