These things should be avoided by all members in this forum, whether new members and old members. Please remember! It is not only to avoid by newbies, you must always avoid them even if you are old members.

Other things that we must avoid, we can see through this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0.

1. Avoid burst posting
I believe, a normal newbie will prefer to read more than post more. When you just join a forum, you need time to understand everything in the forum. That will trigger you to spend much time for reading, at least you read the basic things in the forum. So, it is a bit strange if you try to do burst posting, you've no advantage to make many posts.

2. Trading of merits
I assume newbies still don't know about this. They even don't care about merits because they probably don't understand about the advantage of merits. Those who buy merits, probably not pure newbies. I suspect they are alt account of old members.