Have I lost it?

[crystalworld]

Hello guys, I logged in one morning to notice that I have been brought back to newbies, instead of Jr member I was, or even promoted to a member.
I don't really know what happened. But I noticed seeing lot of people as newbies, and  I can't do any signature campaign again. what should I do, to gain my rank back. Please help if you have an idea.

[IlVeroNico]

Now you need at least 1 merit to become a Jr. Member, it was done to prevent spam from low ranks to become JR.M quickly

[passwordnow]

There is new update for the ranking system of newbie.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5030366.0

Admin added some restrictions and one of it is you can't wear a signature and personal text, you need to earn at least 1 merit to become jr member.

[vlad230]

No you didn't "loose it".   You were demoted to newbie because you did not earn any merit.

This was enforced by theymos to stop the huge amount of spam that is happening in the Bitcoin & Altcoin discussion forums.

Check this out:

Due to excessive garbage-posting, you now need 1 merit to be a Jr Member. All existing Jr Members who didn't meet the requirement were demoted. Also, newbies can no longer set any signature or personal text.

Note that this does not affect:
 - PM rate-limiting, which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
 - "You must wait ___ seconds...", which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
 
But it does affect:
 - Voting in polls
 - Patroller jurisdiction
 - The "ignore newbie PMs" option.
 - "The body is omitted from this email because the sender is a newbie."
 - BBCode limits
 - Reduced-accuracy link filtering
 - Board restrictions

Many of these limitations can be eliminated with a copper membership. In particular, you can set a signature at Member level if you wear a copper membership.

One reason that I was hesitant to do this before is that there are an awful lot of newbie restrictions, and I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies. I'll think about tying some of those to activity instead of rank in the future.
 
With help from DdmrDdmr, I just added 36 new merit sources, which should help newbies achieve the requirement. But if you're incapable of posting anything worthwhile, then you will never rank up, and you shouldn't: this isn't the forum for you.

[popox]

You have not lost it at all, you can turn it. You must get 1 Merit to be on the junior member rank and after this your abilities will be restored. I had the same problem.

[carlzhao]

Everything that you have lost could be turned to you again because forum is very unique in this case. Just find a merit and your position will be on the same one.

[lotfiuser]

you just need 1 merit to get back jr member rank back you can post a good content or ask someone that you know for merit

[kamilah147]

Everything that you have lost could be turned to you again because forum is very unique in this case. Just find a merit and your position will be on the same one.

we never know what our future will be like. because that fate has been determined. if indeed our fate is good then the loss thing never happened to us.

[Eleven86]

you just need 1 merit to get back jr member rank back you can post a good content or ask someone that you know for merit

The reason behind this is to avoid spammers as most of them started unnecessary stuffs in this forum, this step was took by the admin of this forum. Go for a merit to regain your rank.

[Ridwan Fauzi]

Hello guys, I logged in one morning to notice that I have been brought back to newbies, instead of Jr member I was, or even promoted to a member.
I don't really know what happened. But I noticed seeing lot of people as newbies, and  I can't do any signature campaign again. what should I do, to gain my rank back. Please help if you have an idea.

It's not appropriate for this thread to be written in the altcoin section, so move this thread to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0 (Meta Section). Also, this is the latest rule for newbie rank and Jr. member rank,

No you didn't "loose it".  You were demoted to newbie because you did not earn any merit.

This was enforced by theymos to stop the huge amount of spam that is happening in the Bitcoin & Altcoin discussion forums.

Check this out:

Due to excessive garbage-posting, you now need 1 merit to be a Jr Member. All existing Jr Members who didn't meet the requirement were demoted. Also, newbies can no longer set any signature or personal text.

Note that this does not affect:
 - PM rate-limiting, which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
 - "You must wait ___ seconds...", which is based purely on activity & whitelisted status.
 
But it does affect:
 - Voting in polls
 - Patroller jurisdiction
 - The "ignore newbie PMs" option.
 - "The body is omitted from this email because the sender is a newbie."
 - BBCode limits
 - Reduced-accuracy link filtering
 - Board restrictions

Many of these limitations can be eliminated with a copper membership. In particular, you can set a signature at Member level if you wear a copper membership.

One reason that I was hesitant to do this before is that there are an awful lot of newbie restrictions, and I don't want the forum to be unwelcoming to good newbies. I'll think about tying some of those to activity instead of rank in the future.
 
With help from DdmrDdmr, I just added 36 new merit sources, which should help newbies achieve the requirement. But if you're incapable of posting anything worthwhile, then you will never rank up, and you shouldn't: this isn't the forum for you.

In your case, you got demoted. This forum has implemented various systems to reduce shitposter. Most of them only use this forum as a place to made money, but they do not made a positive contribution to this forum.

[LSt56]

I think this rule is applied to reduce spammers and keep newcomers to discuss according to what they know. currently there are too many newbie members or Jr. with more than hundreds of posts and there are very many post reports in it.

[Samkol26]

It's the new rule that all Jr member without at least 1 merit be downgraded to newbie. But there is still a way to pay copper member on your current account with 15$ which is equivalent to member. It's just like unlocking your account. I think you can find it in settings

[bigcash2011]

Now you need to get 1 merit to move to junior member rank from newbie, i will suggest you to stay focussed it is matter of one good post and you will hopefully get the required merit and you will regain your rank.

[crypthomonkey]

Hello guys, I logged in one morning to notice that I have been brought back to newbies, instead of Jr member I was, or even promoted to a member.
I don't really know what happened. But I noticed seeing lot of people as newbies, and  I can't do any signature campaign again. what should I do, to gain my rank back. Please help if you have an idea.

this is an unpleasant sitiation but i am sure you will find the way out of it quockly it is hot so serious actually so good luck

[Fuhre]

This is a system of emphasis for everyone to be more serious in discussion so what you need to do is make something that you think is very useful for everyone and it's good to put a quality word, don't worry it can be changed with your process and seriousness in make a post, of course if you want to raise your rank you need 1 gift from someone who they think is good because everyone is different in responding to every other post, not complaining that there are still many people out there who experience things like that, I hope that all members are more care for those who have thought hard in making a post, so don't give up, it's still a long process that we make in the future.

[matedrink24]

The forum rules have been changed. You need a merit to become JR.Member. Actually to get pretty hard merit. You have to post constructive posts and many community interests, and the high rank member or administrator will transfer merit to you.

[bitkanu]

Hello guys, I logged in one morning to notice that I have been brought back to newbies, instead of Jr member I was, or even promoted to a member.
I don't really know what happened. But I noticed seeing lot of people as newbies, and  I can't do any signature campaign again. what should I do, to gain my rank back. Please help if you have an idea.

You need at least 1 merit to become the jr member, you should create a lot of constructive post to reach jr member level and without it and that will be impossible for you to reach that level dude. Please you must read a lot of the latest rules in the bitcointalk and theymos has updated it with a new one that put more restriction to the low level member.

[zeze18]

Hello guys, I logged in one morning to notice that I have been brought back to newbies, instead of Jr member I was, or even promoted to a member.
I don't really know what happened. But I noticed seeing lot of people as newbies, and  I can't do any signature campaign again. what should I do, to gain my rank back. Please help if you have an idea.

You should need new rules.
You'll need a merit to break a newbie, this things applied due to many people create multiple accounts and joining many bounties at the same time.

[baghdatis1990]

     It is a new condition implemented by Bitcointalk, which tries to prevent SPAM. If you have a Junior Member account, it is a mandatory condition to receive 1 merit. If you have any friends on this forum, you can ask them to give you some merits to promote again.

[mariogomer]

Membership system changed. So many people were victims, but that was necessary. Follow the developments and do your part.