Nowadays in this forum dude, are very strict when it comes to ranking. Like what theymos said in the announcement here that you can only be a Jr. member if you have at least 1 merit. Then, most of the signature now also accepting from Jr. member and sometimes they're lowest rank accepting was Member only few signature campaign which are accepting Newbies. But even you're a newbie I think you can still partake in joining sin some other campaign, like translation, blog, Fb and twitter if you have skills any of these things.