That's absolutely right, I'm a Jr. Member now. But still I feel like I'm a newbie. I believe I'm a regular member but I haven't got any merit yet. I'm not sure where I stand about this merit system. I hope things go well for me. Best wishes for myself. 
Keep feeling like a newbie. At least it will keep you off the bounties and make you contribute something useful to the forum.
The newbies, especially the ones who wanted to increase their rank are struggling with the limitations that some are spending money to buy copper.
Patience and perseverance is the key to increase your level. Every achievement that comes from hard work is sweeter than those things you had easy. It is so fulfilling that you started from the bottom and you are slowly going up to the top. No person can become adult immediately no matter how much they want it because there are certain things we learn while we grow up and priceless experiences. We must learn to take things slowly, limitations are made because it gives us lessons that everything does not come unlimited.
Patience and perseverance is the key to increase your level. Every achievement that comes from hard work is sweeter than those things you had easy. It is so fulfilling that you started from the bottom and you are slowly going up to the top. No person can become adult immediately no matter how much they want it because there are certain things we learn while we grow up and priceless experiences. We must learn to take things slowly, limitations are made because it gives us lessons that everything does not come unlimited.
And the purpose of this topic is to?
I will use this good advice in my investment decisions. Thank you very much op. This is what i came to this forum for.
You should learn to read before posting.
Newbies, newcomers should gradually and naturally rank up their positions over time. It's better for them. They should learn, experience first. No need to rank up too fastly in the forum.
Yes you're right, mostly newcomers or newbie must learned first about the forum rules before they rank up in the next step.They should know everything here in forum and explore different sections not only section that flood on shit poster like Bitcoin discussion, economics and trading discussion those are mostly post nonsense to the sewer. That's good enough time to explore while hunting smerit to have in order to be rank up and motivated to have a good quality post.
Not every discussion is non-sense. The merit distribution may not be high in those places but the discussion on many threads are legit. Some shitposters will always clog them and make them unreadable. Higher merits are seen in "Technical Discussion" though that is not for everyone IMO.
That's absolutely right, I'm a Jr. Member now. But still I feel like I'm a newbie. I believe I'm a regular member but I haven't got any merit yet. I'm not sure where I stand about this merit system. I hope things go well for me. Best wishes for myself.
That is the true purpose of merit. To show how much do we really know about bitcoin and crypto. If we are knowledgeable enough, we can participate better and soon somebody will notice us and will give us merit. It is better to stack up on knowledge and not just on rank.
You guys need to stop thinking about merit so much. It does not even matter who notices your post or to make your post stand out. What is more important is the contribution to the forum and your involvement in helping others. Dont chase merits and stop refreshing your merit stats page every 2 minutes to check who merited you. It wont change at least for now.