Where have you been all this time, almost a year now you created this account is just this month you decided to start posting and your posts look so matured that I will not consider you as a newbie rather an alt account or I will give you the benefit of the doubt that since you registered you used almost a year to study the forum. Sometimes some newbie are not eger to get Merit but they want to know whether the path they are riding on is okay, we all know that merit is not easy to get, for some newbies to see their post is been merited it gives them more courage to learn more.
Actually this wasn’t his first post, the user actually made his first post at the start of this year, and another in around September, maybe OP opted out of the due to maybe personal reasons or so. But still
As for the OP, newbies have come to the forum too and just as you have done give out advice like this but at the end them they self couldn’t curtail the urge to trail gradually grow and some started breaking the rules to fish for merit, I hope you hold on to your advice and possibly start engage gradually at least that is the only way to grow in ranks in the forum