It was also a joke that people can sign up here with literally hundreds of accounts and post nonsense everyday just to rank up and hence why the forum is such a shitshow. Now that's not possible without putting substantial effort into your posts. Lot's of people will rise to Hero member and a new user has nearly one and half years to get the required merit. If you can't get it in that time then you're probably contributing very little and don't deserve the rank.