I read the title and the OP and it smelled bad to me. We have a lot of threads opened by newbies in the B&H section that end up like this one. Good thing the OP wasn't given any merit.

It should be a general rule: brand new/newbie/junior member who opens a thread in the B&H praising the forum/the merit system/something specific to the forum better think about checking his post history for plagiarism, merit exchange or whatever before giving him merit.