I stand to the point you could be making quality posts in the Altcoin section for 10 years and not reach Sr. Member. And in the last Bullrun and the months before, there definitely was more quality posts here in the Altcoin sections. Now you can hardly even get people to name some good low cap projects because they just spam the same ETH-related posts over and over.
To reach Sr. Member before 2018 all you had to do was make 240 posts, quality didn't matter. To reach Sr. Member now you need 240 posts and some of them need to be good enough to stand out in the ocean of crap. You still haven't explained how that's a bad thing or why one would need to be a Sr. Member to begin with. And still no examples to support your blanket statements, like - users who have been making quality posts for 10 years.
BTW there are merit sources on the Altcoin boards so again, all you have to do is show those overlooked high-quality posts.