The restrictions regarding rank and registration date of the accounts are in place to prevent cheaters from creating multiple new accounts and abuse the airdrop. One downside of these restrictions is that there are only so much existing members on BCT who qualify. Many of them have dumped their coins already. You see that it is difficult to find a balance between a big community and keeping the cheaters out.
This definitely makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately it does make it difficult for new comers to get involved too. I guess the majority of people investing in altcoins are going to be people who have been around the bitcointalk forum so they should have an account with a post history. If I told a friend about this coin though, and they'd never had an account here they are essentially locked out of the airdrop for a while right?
Their only way in would be to buy from an exchange which would be hard to ration; why pay for coins when thousands of dollars worth are being dropped every week to members who just have an account on a forum?