I already have Activity: 70 why do I get the rank of a Member?

I'm a big collector of the 'shiny things' underneath my name As I am on the PlayStation too. I'm a real trophy hunter and I like to get Platinum on every game that I play.
A week or two ago this got a little interrupted for my future promotions inside the Bitcointalk forums. Although I have a LOOOOONG way to go towards a promotion to Sr. Member, considering my activity, since recently I have to collect Merit too for my shiny things At first, it was a little disappointing to say the least. But now I have more knowledge about the system and I must say, I embrace it. When I'm looking into a project which I like at first sight, I always check BTT threads for more information, and a lot of the times I lose interest because of all the spam on the thread (read: When this moon? When Lambo? When my tokens? This go up?). A lot of the times it's just to raise activity on the accounts and if this system will even prevent 20% of all these posts, it means the system works! I myself have a Signature too and I wear it with pride! When you have taken up a Signature Campaign, I consider myself to be like an Ambassador of the ICO/project you support, so you can't just post random things around and expect your reward at the end of the agreed date. You have to take in consideration that you will be reviewed and that you take your part seriously. So, I'm not sure what it will all mean, because I have to get A LOT of merits before I will reach a higher level in membership, but I will also need a lot more activity, so I'll see whatever goal of these two I will reach first. Hopefully I will add a shiny coin to my collection one day.. Theymos, the one who came up with the idea of merits is a member since February 2010 , which is just sick! 8 years on BTT, so he definetly earned his rights. I'm a member since 5 months now, so I'm not in any position to really question him. When I'm a member for 8 years, I will hopefully be a Legendary, just like him

Thanks heaps for the information, though I was wondering so when it says (time * 14, posts) does that mean the time *14 is added to the number of posts you make?

I have joined in January 24, 2018.
and now i have 15 activity points.(less than two weeks)

 

is that first two weeks mean by month? or based on joining date? because i have reach 14 activity points on less than 2 weeks 

The periods are fixed and the same for everyone, your registration date doesn't matter. You have now a potential activity of 28, as soon as you reach that number of posts, your activity will update as well.

i am in the same situatiuon, how do you obtain merit ?

sir this was an unexpected move to those who wished to reach full member and also higher ranks but a good way to filter scammers and others as well.. being here since july and bcz of the profession couldnt meet the requirements some how.. would like to really know how can we earn merit system.

None of us really knows how this merit system is going to play out exactly in terms of which posters are going to attract merit; however, there is speculation that quality of posts will go up by necessity of earning merit.  We are still in the early days.  I looked at a few of your recent post, and they seem pretty decent.  Therefore, I gave you one merit based on your mere quantity of posts over recent months.  

On the other hand, you may want to tighten up the quality of the posts with proper punctuation, capitalization, spelling out words rather than abbreviating, and just make sure you read several posts earlier in the thread to be contribute in a meaningful way with substance and possible insight and attempt to contribute to the ideas being discussed in the thread with ideas/facts/logic, and sometimes insightful questions.  

It seems that the more thoughtful your posts, then the better chance that your posts may have in attracting merit.. so getting the first 10 merits might NOT be difficult since you already have several posts out there and you can build upon your contributions... and also I think that it is good to just post within topics and threads that you like and attempt to be genuinely interested, interesting and to have fun with it all, and if you do those things while attempting to provide decent quality within your posts, you will likely attract at least some merit (maybe not as much as you would like ..yet  over time you will likely receive merit, without needing to beg for it, which would not be a good or credible practice).  

Also, once your receive two merits, then you will receive a sendable merit.  You can also possibly increase your credibility in the way that you award smerit - by identifying good post and highlighting those by either quoting them or writing about them or giving them a merit.

Wow, You made it literally easy for me sir.I was looking at something like this throughout and never could find any.But you have given me a crystal clear picture now and happy that u have highlighted where all i need to improvise. thanks again for the merit as well as pointing out where i need to improvise .