because community needs active merit sources who encourage newbies
Besides, (naive question) why do newbies need merit?
need more peoples to help out newbies with their knowledge and experience.
I find it even more irrelevant if for those reason, you're only trying to awaken your local merit sources instead of identified geniuses. Helping you to gain knowledge and experience isn't a merit source primary task. Even with 0 merit earned, you're entitled to all the information here, except for a few subforums like Ivory Tower, which even those aren't as well-visited.