Yeah, that was me. Assuming you're not someone's alt account and haven't been here longer than it appears, you'll realize that noobs ARE the problem.
They're veterans, not noobs. They've been spamming here for the past few months now to try and get some sort of merit.
I'm going to be honest and say, to me, almost everyone here is the cause of the problem. There are bystanders who do nothing about it, and people who actively spam that fill the boards.
Mostly altcoins are the issue, if we got rid of the altcoin section and moved it to a sister forum (altcointalk.org) we would probably see quite a reduction in spam.
Check out the Bitcoin Discussion, Altcoin Discussion, or Economics sections and see how many idiotic nonsense posts are being made, and take note of the rank of the members making them.
What brought them here though, have we managed to work that out yet?
Check out how many merit threads are being made in Meta, usually by relatively new members. These are veiled attempts to earn merit, because they think that if a merit source or an older member with merits to give agrees with them, they'll merit the post.
And we still don't get a separate section for merit so we can just ignore it...
Calling out noobs and having an issue with them because they're starting later then the rest of us doesn't really sound like a healthy attitude does it?