Quote from: Daniel91 on January 12, 2020, 11:44:50 AM

Is little bit difficult to understand your question

Yep, because OP's English is lousy but what I understood is this: OP is not ranking up nearly as fast as he thinks he/she should be, and it's all because of the merit system. OP has only earned 4 merits since registering in May of last year, so it's probably looking like it's going to be impossible to reach even Full Member.

My question (which I'm sure I know the answer to) is why is it so important for OP to rank up? If you're here to read and write, rank doesn't prohibit you from doing either of those things.

I'd also volunteer my opinion that Theymos probably isn't contemplating any changes in the ranking or merit systems. Yes, it's very hard for members to climb the ranks but the merit system was designed to make it that way. OP might not understand how bad the forum had gotten by January 2018 in terms of nonsense posts, spam, and account farming but let me tell you, it was bad.

If you could still rank up just with activity, it would probably be even worse right now and might even have driven all the good members away out of frustration--so the merit system and the resultant difficulty in ranking up was an absolute necessity. There's probably a local board OP can post in, and hopefully if that's the case it has a merit source roaming around.