Wonder what will the criteria for a rank change in this forum? I mean to move form Jr ->Member ->Full member etc. is it number of posts you contribute orhow long you've joined the forum?
Before it is dependent on the number of activity and how long the account is alive in this forum. There was activity brackets to reach and each week you activity counter will go up 14 each other week depending on the number of post you have. Now, this forum made a new format to increase your ranking by earning merits hand to hand with your number of posts and activity. It's harder now since other people need to give you merits. These people could only give you merits if they have sMerits.