We newbies can develop our own skills to do more quality/useful post in order to rank up. Reading books or something will help us improve our grammars in that case we will not be a newbie anymore. If I didn't leave the for I assure I'm not a newbie now.
2 posts and 2 merits and the Merited Post is deleted looks like in a way of Merit abuse .
Is only a guess but looks like it.