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I want to use the signature section and post images as well.
I know that I can't post videos as well but are GIFs available?

You can wear signatures too(signature styling limit you can wear is the same as that of a Member rank)
Posting GIFs is also possible

Copper Membership allows you to post images and wear a signature. You can't embed videos, but you can post GIFs.
Read more here : Newbies can now pay a small fee to enable images (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2385104)

You need to use image hosting sites like imgur.com
1. Upload the image/gif
2. Right click on the image, click "Copy image address"
3. Post here in bitcointalk inside the image tag

Example:

Im addition to posting images, gifs and wearing a member styled signature. It seems like copper membership lifts some of the newbie on restrictions. However you should not go about indiscriminately private message other members.
Most bounties group copper members with jr members, despite the signature style too.

I've yet to see a Copper Newbie/ Jr. Member join signature campaigns. Would bounty managers classify one equally as members?

Imo it depends on the bounty manager. Some classify copper members same to jr.members (like here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5105001.0)) while others to members (like here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5097539.0)). Btw, I've already seen several bounties that allow copper members to join their sig campaign since last year (Dec).

If depends on the Campaign manager. @jhenfelipe has provided two examples that do accept Copper Members, equating a Copper Member to a different rank in each case.

I’ve just gone over the first page of Bounties, and out of the 35 listed campaigns on my screen refreshment, 33 did not mention Copper Members in their signature rules, one equated it to a Member providing the user had 5 earned merits, and another accepted it as a Jr. Member in terms of stakes.
If you have a shine to a particular campaign, and Copper Members are not mentioned in the signature conditions, you should ask the Campaign Manager if they accept Copper Members and under what conditions.

I have had no problems at all joining signature campaigns with a copper membership and i have earned stakes equal to what a Member rank would receive.
I earned my member rank soon after i got the copper membership, so i dont know how it is now.

To be honest op, you have the answer needed. I've seen a newbie with copper member joined a signature campaign and received stakes the same as jr. member until the newbie rank to jr. member later on. Some bounty campaign stated that jr. member with copper membership will get rewarded the same as Member rank if the participant have 5 merits. In addition to jhenfelipe's post about adding images in your post, you can also resize the size of your images by adding height and width.
Take Note: YOU can change size of the image to your desired size by changing the number.

Participation of Copper Members in the signature campaign depends on BM. But, lately I can see that it has wider spread, in addition, CM is equal to member rank. How true this is, is the issue of discussion.

Bounty manager I personally know makes this decision separately for each campaign, it all depends on the quality of the content that is needed.

If I keep on being active and comments good stuff on posts will I ever get member status. it seems like its been forever and nothing.  :( :(

If your posts are pretty helpful and provide good insights, you'll receive them naturally.

Most importantly, don't stress too much on farming them.

Most of your posts are one-liners, posted in Gambling and Altcoin boards. Some posts are lengthier, but those are basically only related to Stars.

If you really want to rank-up, you need to be way more elaborate on your posts, giving them content depth. That does take some time to do, and you may need to do some research before hand in some cases, but that is what it takes generally.

In addition, Altcoins and Gambling are not the best boards to help one to rank-up. Altcoins is a rather well merited board historically, but often due to obscure reasons and not to the quality of the content itself (there are likely quality posts there, but finding them is a feat).

Since Merits is part of the requirements to rank-up, and the Merit System relies (too) heavily on Merit Sources, I would say that barely any visit the Altcoin and Gambling boards, so chances of being merited there nowadays in a legit manner are slim.

In summary, you should expand to other boards, and be way more elaborate on your contributions.

You do not need to oblige yourself to be active on every thread and just leaving comments without providing a thought/impactful idea.
Just post on topics that you know and leave something that bear value.

It is better if you oblige yourself to read more as it will provide you the answers that people may ask in the future and may consider yours as a quality post and might receive merit for it giving you a chance to rank up.