When you follow someone and and ask his money, merit, it is begging. If you ask his merit, it is merit begging. If you ask his money, it is money begging.
Do not beg for merit excessively.
Read the last word you quoted "excessively".
I don't think it's wrong for someone to ask merit sources to review his posts or report some of his best posts to merit sources and ask for merit if he deserve it.
But it's wrong if you force the merit source to merit your post even though they feel you not deserve about it.
However @OP create this thread is pointless since not every merit source want to create their own thread to distribute their sMerit.