These newcomers should continue on learning beyond just that the system exists and who to ask for them.

The red trust also is only punitive if you are here to solely make money off the forum, Red trust in no way limits you from learning or engaging with the community. Like I previously stated, given enough time and proof of learning from the experience the member that issued that trust may consider removing it or changing it to neutral. If they do not that's their decision and again just part of the forum environment members need to learn to work within
Thanks.. I would try to earn cancellation of negative trust, but people are saying the one who gave me negative trust would never consider removing negative trust. He/she will stick to his/her decision. The fact is that red negative trust tag I have got irritates me. I may have some unprofessional inappropriate words and immature behavior, but I am not a spammer. I was just trying things around here but not to spam anybody. I feel like I have been jailed. I am not an avid bounty hunter too. The signature campaign is something that keeps encourage you to interact and contribute in your early days in forum, which I think is not bad because it attracts new people into cryptocurrency and eventually they will learn something about cryptos which they may spread into their own community. The main thing we need today is more people participating into crypto-related things so that they can eventually learn about cryptocurrency procedure. Vast majority of people did not know even what is ETH wallet and how it works and how to create it. With their participation in bounties, they will at least learn about these which they will spread into their own community.
Merit "generators" or anyone with Smerit can give the merit how they see fit. I would say they do a decent job of getting them out there. Just don't expect every post you make to earn Merit. I don't think that there are many users that are only meriting posts that promote their projects or that are brownnosing.
Sadly, I admit these types of post would not let me earn merit but I am not brownnosing. Unfortunately, ppl got rewarded merit for good things said, like his sixth sense told him that something good is happening (not stats or any useful information) to a coin that is virtually dead and has avg 24-hour volume of less than $100k. I don't want to be person specific but you can search for these types of examples and see how merits are distributed. These things encourage newcomers to ask for merits. If you want to I can send you evidence on PM.