I can respect that, and that's basically what Theymos wants (merit sources, at least, and I don't know if you're one) people to do for newbie posts--give them merits if they're essentially just "good" posts.  His post about the NELUNS.IO scam thing met that criteria, but I probably wouldn't have given him a merit for his OP here.  But it's your merit and your judgement and I won't criticize you for that. 

OP isn't on track to becoming one of the highest merit-earning accounts by any means, but it does sound like he's very happy with the one merit he got prior to starting this thread and maybe this'll be incentive for him to improve his posts.  I don't really have a problem with threads like this, because they might motivate noobs who are otherwise stuck in shitpost-mode.  It's a long shot I know, but it could happen.