Going back to the topic of what the purpose of ranking up is, at first it was just a challenge that I needed to go through and had to reach the highest Rank.
But when that was achieved, it wasn't the end, and the High Rank had a lot of responsibility to keep evolving.
There are many accounts with high Rank, but in the end they are not used and are unproductive because there is no useful activity on the forum.
I wouldn’t say that signature campaign here isn’t part of the motivation to user to get ranked up, that will be a blunt lie, not all can be the same but it certainly a motivation here that get some user to rank up and start earning incentives.
But regardless of that most people will try to rank up to the highest possible rank in the forum. Because it’s kind of a thing of pride to actually go high in rank in every knowledge environment it simply means your are definitely growing. We have seen members who have achieved high ranks but still strive to go higher in the number of merits earned because to them it sets them above everyone and that’s human nature. So to me the ability to be above others is always a driving tool to rank up not only in this forum but everywhere