Ugh are you serious when the hell did this happen. So all you need to do to qualify these days is spam out of your ass. 
Spam? Ha. Activity and lots of posts does not equate to spam. It's all about quality and relevance of posts.
The most common spam you see on the board comes in the form of people trawling the Off-Topic section and posting absolute crap response. Something which the mods seem to be monitoring pretty closely.