You're going to be surprised how many people have way more knowledge in Bitcoin than some members here and they have not even registered to this forum just yet.

Don't let the forum ranking make you think that you can't make decision based on the advice given by the full members. You should still research the advices given to you and make the decisions there. Back when the ranking system was activity-based, it was all too easy for some users to rank-up, but now it might not be that easy for them.

This is quite a bad advice. It makes the user close-minded from any other new knowledge. It would be best to at least take consideration of advices then make decisions after you had made a couple of research from whatever was advised to you.