The journey of bitcointalk is a journey of gradual process, when you look around you will see that may has registered in the bitcointalk and their are unable to achieve any milestone in bitcointalk because of challenges, I thank almighty for me to reach members rank after all challenges I faced both sickness and losing my phone, the one of losing my phone is the one that would have discouraged me mostly from bitcointalk, but I insisted and continued using my sisters phone to login my account in forum
Today I'm a member and I'm excited to see myself to this rank, I will stand to celebrate another milestone in the forum which I know very well, so when I looked at my ranked up I get more courage, I want to everyone to not lose hope in what they are doing, because their is some things that will stand as obstacles when you want to know what you don't
I stand in this precious time to congratulate myself for achieving my first milestone despite that theirs many milestones to achieve but at least I have counted 1 and others shall be achieve later
Sometimes facing challenges depends on the actions you are taking while on the forum. As I see this is a ranked up post I would say that the challenges you speak of might be gaining merit. While I feel that users are sometimes overlooked when it comes to merit, I think for the most part those that put in actual effort are noticed. If you post mostly bounties, or i agree with blah blah posts, or other low quality activities you will not get many merits. A little bit of effort and a lot of reading will go a long way on this forum.
Anyways, congrats on the member rank. Maybe the challenges won't be as bad on the full member journey.