Ranking up is one of the motivation for a user to continue on learning about bitcoin and later on will invest.
Wrong, not everyone is here to be a bounty hunter. I took 2-3 years more than needed to get to Legendary, I didnt wear a paid signature for the first 4 years on the forum.
Just because you feel a certain way it does not mean everyone else is in the same situation.
I can attest to this, was in the same boat. Lurker since 2013, member since 2014, never wore a sig until very recently.
At some point people stopped joining this forum as a hobby and started joining it as a potential profession, which I still find to be quite weird. It's pretty easy to tell which newcomers are actually a fan of crypto and which are here for the shit tokens just by the content of their posts.
Furthermore QT I don't see why you care what the DT is like because your reputation has been blown to shit regardless how you rejigger your trust settings. Frankly I don't understand why you continue to post under that account.