Nice initiative mate, but give me a little clarification on the requirement for submitting a post in this thread especially in number 4.
1. Why do they have to explain to you that their post deserve merit, can't you please judge them objectively for their post which is totally deserved ?
Little references that I found.
-snip- I encourage people to give merit to posts that are objectively high-quality, not just posts that you agree with.
Do not beg for merit excessively.
2. When a newbie participate in this thread and they ask you to give them some merit on a post they think is quality then the request can be considered begging for merit. Beg for merit might be the reason someone has get a negative trust and their profile is also being ignored by the user.
My assumption is even though you have a good initiative but I think you can change the requirement a little bit to be simpler like just asking beginner to submit 1-5 link of their quality poss in the thread which you and the contributor will later check (if any) without having ask what reason they deserve a merit. In general, I like the way you treat beginner. Good luck mate.