Rank in this forum means nothing.

There are legendaries which doesn't even know what is a private key. I was really impressed when I joined this forum and saw so many legendaries which were  completely newbies in crypto.

The reason is that this forum had a bad time before the merit system was implemented. People created accounts here just for bounties and spammed everywhere. Now it is harder to rank up , so you will find newbie working hard to rank up.