Am I getting it wrong? Or you didn't concentrate much on the question? If I'm not mistaken, he mean as a newbie can you give out merit to another user? I think one must have sMerit in order to send merit.
So I'm little bit confused seeing you saying yes and getting more lost when the above me justify the answer you gave to OP. I need more enlightenment please.
edited I understand now. It's possible to have sMerit in order to be able to send merit while you are still newbie due to low activity.
Glad that you have understood what I meant, I included theymos merit system link which is enough to understand what merit system is all about, if Rafi0001clicked on it, he is going to understand everything that is needed to know, he got no merit, which means he got no smerit, nothing to send. But as long as anyone register their an account on this forum, they may still have low activity and yet be a newbie and have many merits already, just like you have later explained.