Sorry if you dislike my grammar i am french so although my english is good it is still not perfect as it is my 2nd language but like all things it is a work in progress.  I don't care about my own personal rank at all because i can do everything i need to do on this forum being a newbie but i found it an interesting point of discussion and wanted to see some others views on it regarding some of my thoughts. Thanks for you input though, i'm always up for some english lessons!

that's why i wouldn't work for a company where i "didn't know crap" let alone complain but i don't see how your comparison is actually relevant at all in this scenario either? The chances are small whichever way you look at it, i have since starting this thread gone through a large volume of merited users and 99% of them are not posting anything special or greatly assisting the forum they are merely just posting in the correct place that users that have a lot of merit to give frequent. It doesn't seem balanced at all and i work as an analyst for a job in the banking sector so i am used to reviewing and sorting through data such as this. I think that it will be extremely hard for the majority of people to rank up here and in general it is highly probable that this forum will suffer as a consequence of that. I have a question for you also, do you not think that If bitcointalk refuses to adapt to this increased userbase than it's  ability to survive against competitors and continue to be the favored place for crypto discussion will continue for very long?

That person has done exceptionally well. Good spotting, i just looked through that users profile a little bit and the user is very active i see. So this proves it is possible but i think it is a rare circumstance seeing people like that and i would be willing to state that there are probably less than a handful of users that are able to do this. As a community based forum don't you think the opportunity should be much more widespread rather than just a few users out of thousands able to gain rank? Interesting that some are able to do this still though, thanks for the information.

After signing up to this forum only today i have a few comments to make regarding the ranking system. I have been using crypto for a long period of time and have often used bitcointalk and read links from here but just never bothered to make an account because i didn't see any reason to as i could already read anything i wanted on here without having one. Bitcointalk is the most well known,active and best source of information regarding a variety of crypto currencies and the crypto scene in general but as ranks go, as the title suggests is it possible for people to rank up on here still? If i was to have signed up to here a couple of years ago i could easily have progressed through the ranks but with the strict rules imposed by the regime in charge i think it is virtually impossible to pass the rank of jr member. To gain enough merit without being a well known or already established user of the forum would take such a considerable effort that any user would also need a stroke a pure luck to even reach member rank now. The chances of being merited even a few times are very small let alone gaining hundreds of merits. Luckily i do not need a high rank for what i chose to use Bitcointalk for so it would mean nothing other than being a status symbol. If you are already of a high ranked position then most likely you like the recent stricter rules as you don't need to jump through the hoops yourself to claim merit and be able to rank up anymore, but when i look through the profiles of most of the higher ranked members i doubt more than a handful of them would be able to progress past the rank of Jr member themselves with the current framework were they not already ranked up. I think Bitcointalk has a responsibility as the largest forum of it's kind to the crypto-users of the world to provide a fair, open, informative and balanced platform for everyone. Although the user base has grown at an incredible speed, hopefully bitcointalk can be adapted to the new climate and continue being there for the community as it was originally intended. Hopefully there will be some loosening of these rules or an entirely new system implemented sometime in the near future so new users are able to participate in all that this great forum has to offer. Well that's my 5 cents worth, thanks for reading.

I just provided proof when i gave a link to my freepik page. I designed your logo and it is free to use "if" you give me credit for using it which you have not done. i don't see any action of ascribing the work or a remark to me at all for using my logo and that amounts to plagiarism which is actually a bannable offence on bitcointalk and is not tolerated on any forums i use. Is that enough proof for you? try crediting authors for there work before i actually take offence and report this to a moderator and see how they judge "my proof".

I'm not sure about this one. For the logo they have just used a free generator from: https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/luxury-letter-s-logo_1157435.htm i think if the team was serious they would have at least designed a logo for themselves? Not only that but every single picture on there ann is just ripped straight from the net, half of them are even in breach of copyright. The entire project also just looks like an exact copy of lightpaycoin added onto it. I would say that this would an extreme risk for any potential investors to go anywhere near this from that standpoint alone.

The pre-mine is HUGE. Do you realize this this is red flag for any potential investors? I would like to see you do well but think you will cop a lot of flak having a pre-mine of that size and with the large quantity of new MN being released on a now daily basis please give us some reasons as to why anybody should pick this over others?