Well, the solution is to grow you account to member... For that you need merits, and to get merits you need some good quality posts. No one say it would be easy, at end the money of those ones to work and the merit system was implemented to grow up the posting quality, was a wise move to avoid all that spam, but isn't a system fair for all. To get 1000 merits sound really hard, but become legendary wasn't easy from the start.

Good look and do it well this time