Actually this account giving scenario is not rare case since it was really happening to help their friends,relatives,gf,etc. It's a form of help to the other person to have an account, although we can say that it's easy to register but to have a jr member and member account is more good to start rather having a newbie account.
Actually 'this account giving scenario' is a fraudulent activity. As far as I understand, account activity and merit systems have been introduced for a reason. What you're describing is account farming, and I don't know where you get your information from, but that is not a common case.
By that logic, why do we even need Newbie and Jr. Member groups? Everyone should be at least Full Members immediately. That would be better, wouldn't it?
Maybe someone's supposed to explain that to theymos.
When you start out, you are a Newbie, and you will run into various annoying limits. These limits will be reduced to the point where you shouldn't usually notice them after you have participated in the forum for a few weeks. If you are on the forum to talk, then that's all you really need to know about rank. Don't worry about it too much, and you will eventually rank up.
If you want to maximize your rank, then you need to increase two statistics which are listed on your profile:
- Activity, which is maximized by posting once per day on average. Posting more than that is useless in raising your activity.
- Merit, which is gained by making good posts.