Actually, I don't/didn't know that. I read technical stuff, and I'm not really interested in behind the scenes formulas of a web forum. I don't post when I have nothing of value to say. If that makes me a "newbie" so be it. I value quality over quantity.
It was just intended as a suggestion, because the documentation of the formula I found seemed to equally weight time on forum and posts. Guess not.
Then someone could create 1.000 accounts, leave them there and come back in 1 year to have them all ranked up, that would be stupid. As I said this is a forum, you are supposed to participate in a forum. Quality over quantity it's good but 2 years for 10 posts it's just well..