This is a very good idea Fillippone atleast you will get to encourage newbie to be more focus so they can atleast earn merit they we be more active so they can earn.
Once again Thanks so much for this beautiful idea.
He has taken this initiative to help members who are trying to contribute something useful or making dedicated efforts in discussions on forums but you registered on forum 3 years back and all posts are from few months back only and talking about being active? He is helping those members whether newbies or high rank whose posts he finds good after review or according to his criteria as he mentioned above so try to learn more with time.The merits should not be priority but exchange of knowledge then you will see newbies motivation more but yes @fillipponne is doing great job helping members in each round.