Quote from: julerz12 on August 13, 2018, 06:07:39 AM

Wouldn't it be more beneficial to this forum to require ranking from Newbie to Jr. member gain at least a decent amount of merits first?

Then you will see the forum filled newbie members.

Now coming back to this issue, it is obvious that this will happen with current criteria. There is a criteria of 10 merit points to gain member rank and most will not be able to achieve that with the quality of posts they make. Something that contributes more to this is that some bounties allow jr members also or even newbies and thus they are content with whatever they get.