As a newbie in this forum,the first thing in your mind in this forum is to learn and comprehend the rules and regulations of this forum.on the other hand still need to work very hard to implement significant thread and contributions to the forum.
Going through all this process in learning and adapting to the policy of the forum,you(newbie) still have high expect ions to contribute immensely in the forum which also need motivation from the high ranking in the forum.
The more merit you got the more motivation you start generating which make you to strive more and more with your progress in the forum.
My question is are the high ranking acknowledging when a newbie is trying to deliver daily and how hard is it for them to reward such newbie with merit?
Well in some points i agree with you, i am a beginner too and yes i can confirm that merit is truly a motivation and you try to do quality posts just in case to get some merit. But the thing with the motivation is, that it can change in a very short amount of time. If you pin your motivation on the amount of merit you possibly get you might be demotivated after 20 posts with no merit and then you stop posting quality stuff.
So the best thing you can possibly do is to forget about the merit and just try to help people in here as good as you can and the merit may come from all alone.