You can certainly post there, but only it won't be counted. But, if we find very useful posts in Beginners and Help we will certainly count them.
What do you think?
I dont mind about it since I dont posted in beginners and help section , the same goes for meta section which I spent less time to monitor there
Any reason why meta is excluded because I dont see much spam for this section , instead, politics and society is the section that has higher spam post imo
EDIT : another option is to stricten up the counting as I do see some of the post in beginners and help is usefull enough .
For example when someone newbie asking about what is a signed message, first and second posts explaining about it might be usefull , but continous explanation about the same answer is considered a spam