Humor has less impact when explained...

Anywhoooo... Largely, I am thanking theymos for the rules as they currently exist...

Which largely means that ranking up takes the passage of time.. which means that the activity level of anyone who ranks up has to come up before they are allowed to get to the next rank.  In other words, there is no way to rush the passage of time, but any member could screw up his/her activity level by not staying sufficiently active or sufficiently posting on the forum in order to advance in activity points.