Sorry for posting here as you expect replies from Newbies only. But I'm surprised that there are 0 replies on this topic 5 hours since you started it. And then people complaining that's difficult to get Merits, there is discrimination against Newbies and etc. Now they have great chance to get easy Merit, but seems that nobody whant to get it. Why? Maybe these people who are usually complaining don't have any quality posts to show...
Speaking for my own Newbie case.... i would say that i never saw either a need or feeling to make a very detailed post/topic about something to get merit ( i also don´t complain ) .
The sense of the System is reasonable to have... just being not able to make signatures with links etc. and not able to post pictures is confusing and doesn´t make me want to be active when i can´t post everything in a Post/Comment/Signatur in first place.