Princess,
I don't think that 2 points is very much and even the newbie know that this person is relatively new. Check me for example; I am here since only 1 month and I have already 3 points so 2 to 5 don't mean a lot in my opinion. But I am with you when you said that someone without experience should not give advices on subjects he doesn't know.
The problem I personally have with these point is when someone as a lot of rep point, say... 18. Some day, on a thread, he lost all is rep point and even became negative (red dot). And when this particularly threat is finished, he regain all his rep point. I don't understand that. The only thing I could think of was that Rich gave him back is points. But if he lost all of it, is it not because he deserved to at least lost some points? That is the only thing I don't understand. In my opinion, this person can also give false informations but he has 18 rep point so for a newbie, it's a lot.
I hope newbie don't pay to much attention on these rep points. I personally take it «with a little grain of salt». If the person seems to know what he is talking about, have more than 5 reputation points and is second by another one, that is great for me. Some peoples who have 2-5 points just posts things like: wow! Beautiful! Greats colors! but we can't do anything with it. I think even a newbie like me that pass a minimum time here eventually know who is a good source and who is not. And sometimes, even a newbie with no rep point can help someone who as 20 rep point.
