Day by day people are getting to know crypto currency, each day good number of interested people join the BitcoinTalk forum. The way the bounty qualifications and rank was in 2012 is not any more. Getting to the next rank is getting more difficult,KYC came in and many other changes, Now don't you think very soon most signature will only be opened to people from Full member and/or very few number will be given the chances of participation in many bounty campaign to have it convenient?
Rank upgrade issues are also a big problem for low-rank accounts like me. I had to struggle to improve my rank but I realized that good posts are sometimes not recognized because moderators also rarely check. so I'm quite disappointed and the Jr. accounts Members and Members will also be removed soon.
Rank upgrade method is changed in 2018, too much hard to get new rank, because you need to earn merit to make quality things. Rank is not impact in bounty campaign, who's wanna to participate high signature campaign those will pay weekly. Full member's are not accepted such campaign. A few btc payment campaign is live but they accept from senior rank.