why the hell does it say "newbie"
You need to write more in the 14 days cycle that we have here on the Forum , then the activity grows!
With that you need at leasst 1 Merit to Rank up your Account .
You can read more about here in this thread from theymos :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2818350.0In addition to activity, everyone now has a merit score, and you need both a certain activity level and a certain merit score in order to reach higher member ranks. The required scores are:
Rank Required activity Required merit
Brand new 0 0
Newbie 1 0
Jr Member 30 1
Member 60 10
Full Member 120 100
Sr. Member 240 250
Hero Member 480 500
Legendary Random in the range 775-1030 1000
You get merit points when someone sends you some for one of your posts.
In your case you need 30 Acitvity points and 1 Merit to rank up.