I know I'm not newbie, or a Jr. Member, but I don't understand why so many people care so much about getting merrit. I understand that it's nice and I would love to get merits, but not nice enough to really think or stress out even a little about it.

You will still be able to reach Jr. Member, and if it's about bounties, I still haven't seen any bounty campaign being affected by merits.

My suggestion, don't worry so much about forum accounts, and ranking up. One day you're going to die and the account will never be used again.