But generally, established members give more advice and are more knowledgeable than lower-ranked members.
True and just by how some "newbie" ranking turned into Hero-Legendary within months just tells how experienced they are in crypto (not just Bitcoin). It is quite amazing to know that there are plenty of Bitcoin users out there that are just roaming around the internet and not just spending their whole time in the forum.
In the end, forum rank is forum rank anyway just like how karma count and awards are just points in Reddit.
To be honest this is not the era of forum. There are so many bitcoin belivers outside there that do not belong to forums such as this. This is an era of social media, if you go to Twitter you will see many of then who doesn't know anything about this forum but they contribute hugely to the Bitcoin network. Some were also here initially but later left, most likely during 2018 spam war.
I am surprised how this forum is able to be sustained till today. That is why people always complain about the interface of this place and some can't help than to run to other social media.