Hello guys, I logged in one morning to notice that I have been brought back to newbies, instead of Jr member I was, or even promoted to a member.
I don't really know what happened. But I noticed seeing lot of people as newbies, and I can't do any signature campaign again. what should I do, to gain my rank back. Please help if you have an idea.
It's not appropriate for this thread to be written in the altcoin section, so move this thread to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0 (Meta Section). Also, this is the latest rule for newbie rank and Jr. member rank,I don't really know what happened. But I noticed seeing lot of people as newbies, and I can't do any signature campaign again. what should I do, to gain my rank back. Please help if you have an idea.
No you didn't "loose it". 
You were demoted to newbie because you did not earn any merit.
This was enforced by theymos to stop the huge amount of spam that is happening in the Bitcoin & Altcoin discussion forums.
Check this out:
In your case, you got demoted. This forum has implemented various systems to reduce shitposter. Most of them only use this forum as a place to made money, but they do not made a positive contribution to this forum. You were demoted to newbie because you did not earn any merit.This was enforced by theymos to stop the huge amount of spam that is happening in the Bitcoin & Altcoin discussion forums.
Check this out:
Due to excessive garbage-posting, you now need 1 merit to be a Jr Member. All existing Jr Members who didn't meet the requirement were demoted. Also, newbies can no longer set any signature or personal text.
Note that this does not affect:
- PM rate-limiting, which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
- "You must wait ___ seconds...", which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
But it does affect:
- Voting in polls
- Patroller jurisdiction
- The "ignore newbie PMs" option.
- "The body is omitted from this email because the sender is a newbie."
- BBCode limits
- Reduced-accuracy link filtering
- Board restrictions
Many of these limitations can be eliminated with a copper membership. In particular, you can set a signature at Member level if you wear a copper membership.
One reason that I was hesitant to do this before is that there are an awful lot of newbie restrictions, and I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies. I'll think about tying some of those to activity instead of rank in the future.
With help from DdmrDdmr, I just added 36 new merit sources, which should help newbies achieve the requirement. But if you're incapable of posting anything worthwhile, then you will never rank up, and you shouldn't: this isn't the forum for you.
Note that this does not affect:
- PM rate-limiting, which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
- "You must wait ___ seconds...", which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
But it does affect:
- Voting in polls
- Patroller jurisdiction
- The "ignore newbie PMs" option.
- "The body is omitted from this email because the sender is a newbie."
- BBCode limits
- Reduced-accuracy link filtering
- Board restrictions
Many of these limitations can be eliminated with a copper membership. In particular, you can set a signature at Member level if you wear a copper membership.
One reason that I was hesitant to do this before is that there are an awful lot of newbie restrictions, and I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies. I'll think about tying some of those to activity instead of rank in the future.
With help from DdmrDdmr, I just added 36 new merit sources, which should help newbies achieve the requirement. But if you're incapable of posting anything worthwhile, then you will never rank up, and you shouldn't: this isn't the forum for you.