I came across topics on the forum, where TS offered to perform some task and get merit for it. Unfortunately, I haven't kept urls to these topics and now I cannot find them.
Have you ever come across such topics? Please, share links...
Merit is not meant to be traded - neither for money/bitcoin/altcoins, neither for others' merit, neither for tasks. This being said, you better don't "find such links" since you may end up with negative feedback.
Merit is meant for useful posts. So if you want merit you better go and help others. Some (very few, I know) will give you merit if they find your posts helpful and good.
Might be the user misunderstood the merit review services where people used to give Merit after reviewing the post or threads like "sMerits fo art".
OP, Actually most of these threads died down as default merits are almost exhausted.
But you have still have a chance because Merit source are not finding good post to Merit. If you are/become good poster than you will get plenty of Merits.