See you in 5 years, I'll be a member
If it takes you 5 years to rank up then you are not putting enough effort in. There are a couple different threads where users can ask for a post review (make sure you qualify before posting). You also just need to try to contribute and eventually you'll start seeing merits come in. Try not to be discouraged if they don't come in 1 week.
No reason to be in a hurry.But there are good reasons to change your attitude towards of the rank up (it seems, not only to this). With such thoughts and aspirations, which @PytagoraZ voiced, he will not reach the member rank even after 5 years. If, with the current ideas about the ranking system and @PytagoraZ's actions, he didn't get the result he wanted, then changes are indispensable. @PytagoraZ is doing something wrong. What exactly? Let him understand this himself, because only he needs a new rank (if needed).
Beginners often believe that without any effort they will be inundated with merit. That doesn't happen. If you want to get something, be ready to give something in return, to make an effort. Whether it's good advice, valuable or useful information, whatever.
This theme is dedicated to celebrating various achievements, such as rank up. If @PytagoraZ doesn’t want to celebrate it, then he shouldn’t have written about it here and complained (describing some tosh with coffee, sleeping, dream and peeing). Get down to business, man. Stop whining.