I've done this for two reasons.
- You shouldn't beg for merit, it makes you look desperate and pathetic.
- I hate your oversized bold text. It pollutes the board, and it is really an indiction that you don't have anything worthwhile to say, so you have to shout at us.
Well, he never begged for it (in this topic I mean), on the contrary, he asked to give him some guide about it. But of course we know that the skill of finding any neseccary information is a must-have skill for a person who wants to be able to make any quality contribution...
But these leters' size really makes me feel being shouted at.