The essence of this topic is not to discourage anyone from doing the right thing especially the newbies but just to advise them on some certain things which they have failed to understand.
They think that giving an advice is a form of contribution in the forum since this is what we are always suggesting when someone ask on how to earn merit. It’s either giving mediocre advise or creating a made up story about Bitcoin that involves their personal life is the common way of newbie nowadays to fish for merit. I’m not saying that this bad too but this newbie is just finding a way to use this for their advantage even if their contribution is not authentic or legit.
They are just chasing merits tho.
You can’t chase for merits if you are not capable enough, especially for newbies who are clearly less knowledgeable and even less experienced in the forum. Although sharing is a good thing, but know when to give an advice or when not to. And I believe for newbies, they should focus first on acquisition of knowledge and development of their skills and strategies and once they’re reliable enough, maybe they could start giving advices to their peers.