Because you don't know how to search or read stickies.
I am not 100% sure how the ranking system worked in 2011 however there is at least one instance when someone
demanded to be promoted to Junior member.
Please, i respectfully demand being appointed as a full member.
You see, i am one of the oldest members. I saw the potential of bitcoin from the start, i stayed up restless in my bed in 2009, thinking of the libertarian utopia that would await us. And i made an account here. So it began. And i made topics. However, now i have unfortunately been subject to newbie treatment, which is perhaps unjust, i would recommend you reconsider this.
I found the post in
this thread.