Here we go with another thread asking about this, and people are giving the same
answers over and over. This is tiresome and the answer to ranking up really needs
to be stickied in bright bold red letters on the front page of meta, where this
question gets asked the most. These threads should also be moved to beginners &
help.
It's also annoying that so many newbies are so concerned with rank here. I've never
seen this attitude on another forum (and I know why. It's because they're so anxious
to start spamming for money).
I see your point but I've been in some other sm forums as well and I'm used to that activity count equals message count almost instantly and that's it. (Of course they have no need to slow ranking up when there is no money involved.) So I can see that someone can genuinely be confused about this system here even if I see clearly why it exists.