I was also considering saying something to Felicity_Tide in regards to his eagerness to get merits after ONLY a short time on the forum, and then when I did a quickie look at his prior posts, they were NOT as bad as some other newbies, yet at the same time, I did not look at them as closely as you did Igebotz, so yeah, that helps in terms of making some kind of an assessment regarding the sense that newbies do not really need to get so excited about whether or not they receive merits - especially since most of the newbies who are quality posters will start to receive merits in more or less natural ways - yet, sure there could be some cases in which the quality of posts of the newbies are being overlooked, and maybe even for reasons that are not their fault, such as their participation in threads (such as local boards) in which merit sources are not participating.. .. so in that regard, I am not really opposed to the idea of drawing attention to posts that might be overlooked, yet I had a similar sense as you, Igebotz, that Felicity_Tide was becoming overly eager.. and also Felicity_Tide's line about his not knowing whether his posts are quality or  not seems a bit retarded, even though it does not hurt to have some humbleness in regards to quality of posts, so it is not completely offensive, even though that comment raised some red flags for me.

Another point that many of the longer term forum members will make to the newbies (including yours truly), is to suggest that they figure out some areas of the forum in which they are interested, and largely focus on threads that are related to their interests - including substantively engaging in those topics which means responding to the ideas of the OP or the ideas that are presented by other members in the thread, and sometimes even throwing in some personal examples can be very helpful even if other members might not agree with your conclusions it still can be quite interesting to come across members who are sharing their personal experiences and they do not even need to give up OpSec (operational security) kinds of information (which just means the information does not need to be so personal as to reveal identity, location, financial prowess or other sensitive kinds of information),

and for me, I don't really find any problem in regards to perhaps the newbie members developing (and building) more interests towards bitcoin (even if they might initially not be very interested in bitcoin), since threads that mostly focus on bitcoin are likely going to attract more merit sources and also more likely result in other members inspired to send their smerits to members who are interacting in substantive and meaningful ways in the bitcoin threads and/or the various ideas related to bitcoin.. which surely bitcoin seems to have potentialities to relate to almost anything.. and maybe I am giving away too much in terms of the cheat code to the forum in terms of newbie members (or any other forum member for that matter), if they are able to weave discussions of bitcoin into almost any topic, they are more likely to get attention of other forum members who appreciate those kinds of posts.. especially if the posts are not filled with vague gratuities, which there seem ot be a whole hell of a lot vague gratuities throughout the forum, and sometimes, I regret sending smerits to forum members who I start to notice that they have habits of repetitiously making posts with either vague gratuities or they are citing from other sources (such as twitter or some article) and even though the topic is interesting, they have none of their own words within the post, besides their having had forwarded some outside source about an interesting topic.. So if these members at least make a one or two sentence statement about what the link and article is about and their opinion on the topic, they also would be more likely to inspire other members (with smerits) to share their smerits with that member.