Might not be your intention; but a topic like this just freaks of fishing for merits. Much like the 100 that preceded it.
If truly you have read other topic on thanking the administrator for implementing the new rule towards newbies ranking up then you need no crystal ball to review to you what the intention of this topic was 
Quick recap, The Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements" topic was posted on the 17th of September and OP before starting this topic has replied to other topic on forum and also started previous topics between September - October so what else if not (merit) do you think user intention was when creating topic & ending with this
but bravo to the decision makers for making a good call. This is definitely a step in the right direction in the War on Spamerism 