If you are a copper member, you just get copper member and thats it. I want to be able to grow my account up to full member and eventually legendary like yourself. If you are a copper member can you rise above copper to become senior or hero?
Of course you will be able to further rank up.
The copper membership is used to post images and reduce action delays which you have as a newbie.
You can read about it here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2385104