Newbies have been told what to do so many times, and if there are some of them not still doing it, then they have no intention of ranking up. "what to do newbies" is somewhat the most popular thread in the B and H section, it's not bad though, but if they are really learning from those threads then newbies by now should be making HQ/good threads, but it's difficult to see any doing that.

Your thread is good but imo it will be better to start threads that they can read to build up their knowledge of bitcoin, cryptocurrency and whatnot.