Rank is only based on seniority but it doesn't mean that high rank members are more knowledgeable than the low rank.
Maybe some are more knowledgeable but not all of the high rank, based on how I evaluate myself, I still see that there are low rank that are smarter than me.
I dont want to agree with that completely mate.
Yes, they might be very smart and intelligent too but one more quality makes the senior ones smarter and that is why they are able to meet up, We have lots of low rank members that has been in this forum ever since it was created, not because they are not intelligent, just because they fail to keep up with the rules, and anyone who has succeeded in keeping up with forum rules is way smarter than anyone who did not.
So low rank members need to do much more than what they are doing now, ranking is not based on how long you have been in forum, no one rewards for that but how actively you have constructively participated.