My original assumption was correct, the topic was was moved. It would be interesting to see what opinion theymos would hold on the matter. Imagine compulsive liar and chief manipulator "naim027" creating a merit giveaway thread and handing out merits to his farmed accounts, the mere idea of that would be unacceptable.
The only unacceptable part, from the forum's perspective, would be ban-evasion. Non-Merit sources can do use their sMerit any way they want.