I understand that you all are trying to give OP suggestions on how to make this merit giveaway easier and better, but from the looks of things, is there really any need for that, this topic has been opened for about four days now and surprisingly only two newbies have applied for the giveaway, it's pretty small and can mean a lot of things, from lack of interest, to only a handful of newbies with good and useful replies or maybe it's just that merit giveaways have lost the traction they used to have before.

Since op has quite a lot of sMerits to give (56), if there's still no interest in the coming days, he could just go in search of the newbies himself, not only newbies per se, but other ranks as well, and give out the merits to the posts he considers (as always it's subjective) constructive.