He could be in the bitcoin scene since several years but just now found this forum and created an account.
Therefore newbie accounts can have a large knowledge on many topics and contribute high quality posts which should be merit worthy.
The former can, and the latter are! I know this for a fact, because some posts which I made at Newbie and Jr. Member rank have been awarded merit retrospectively, more than a month later. In some cases, people actually remembered them; in others, fresh readers were linked to them from another post and/or it is an open-source software release thread which gets bumped occasionally.
Following is an incomplete selection of posts I made
before the start of the merit system, whilst at the bottom two ranks, which received merit long after the fact. It is reasonable to expect that had the merit system been active in December, many of my other Newbie posts would have been awarded merit when they were fresh. Note: I first started actively posting
2017-12-01. (I created the account 2017-03-29, then avoided this place for eight months due to the spam.) Note also: I ranked up to Member on 2018-01-30, so I started with zero merit; but on 2018-01-29, I logged in after a few weeks absence and found that I already had 17 merits from old posts.
Wherefore, I agree that newbie accounts can have a large knowledge on many topics and contribute high quality posts; and per my experience, such newbie posts are indeed found merit worthy by others.
Many people here are missing that there is a life outside of this forum and the rank here is only one of many indicators how well informed someone might be about cryptos.
B4RF, does it genuinely appear to you that the account you and JayJuanGee are discussing fulfills these criteria for somebody with quality posts to contribute as a Newbie? Does that look like a well informed person who simply has a life outside of this forum?
