It is not bad for someone to rank up and create a thread about it, but just that the thread can be created on reputation board. It is just a special day for some members and there is nothing bad about that.

I'm also not saying that it's a bad attempt, but when it's done by nearly every member who manages to rank up full member or higher then I'm sure people start to see it as something less fun. I've expressed my opinion here for the celebratory thread. I know not everyone will agree with this, so we really need to think of a good solution to keep it organized.

In the moment, I'd love to hear more thoughts on this idea from you. If this thread idea doesn't get enough support then I think I better lock it in future.

That problem will solve itself: if enough people find it annoying, they won't earn Merit from it anymore.

Save your nice merit records, here.
Save your nice merit records here - LAST UPDATE: 06/11/2021

Merit records and rank up are different but if they have enough merit, they will rank up sooner or later. If they don't leave the forum because they must get enough activity as well as merit to rank up.

I see people celebrated their rank-ups many times  in Beginners & Help.

Personal topic or this topic about rank up should be published in a Reputation board.

I'm one of those users who haven't created a celebratory thread after the merit system was introduced. I managed to 2 times rank up so far (Hero and Legendary) but I don't think I should celebrate. But I don't think the Legendary celebration is something ridiculous, it's good to prove that the merit system doesn't prevent them from achieving Legendary.

I'm not sure your idea will get much support from those who rank up because in reality you're not the first to come up with an idea like this. Tthread with the same idea has been ignored by many while others continue to create celebratory thread, so this is not the best idea in my opinion. _BlackStar, I'd rather you start learning more meaningful things to increase your knowledge of bitcoin and other more useful things than thinking about issues like this. You can't stop people from having an opinion while you're also free to do whatever you want as long as you don't break any rules.

The emphasis should not be on legendary only. In most cases, the joy of a Jr member becoming a full member or a full member becoming a Snr member is higher than a Hero Member achieving a legendary rank.
In most cases, lower ranked members especially new era genuine newbies have many things to prove.
Apart from putting together what would be seen as quality posts, they still need to prove that they can be trusted, in some cases prove that they aren't someone's alt and even has to make their usernames familiar as many of them don't know anyone in the forum.
But in the case of a Hero Member to Legendary, he must have overcame some of the above challenges, leaving him with only the challenge to make quality posts, earn merits and activity and rank up.

The average of the thread of celebrations ranging from member rank to Legendary, there will be motivation for other users. Some of them make it pretty good, while others don't where more people aren't interested in joining in on the celebrations. You will get something different from a Legendary celebration than a low rank member celebration because I think Legendary celebrations no longer expect more achievements "thanksgiving-only" while low rank celebrations will usually require more support and motivation for the OP to do better so they can get more merit to be promoted to the rank above.

COOLCRYPTOVATOR, I don't deny creating a new thread for celebration because basically I managed to reach Legendary rank starting because I was motivated through the celebration of some other users. But anyway if the OP celebrate a trivial achievement like getting on the list of the most earned merit then I think it's going to be a bit harsh on some user opinions. I wouldn't think celebrating ranking achievements would be prohibits or would be regulated by the rules as it was a way for someone to express their joy after they succeeded. That will be normal in some forum, but in a good manner and interesting.

_BlackStar, your idea won't get much support in the end and I think it would be best for you to close this thread and forget about it. Look at the thread you refer to, it should be the reason why this thread is not needed because basically people will express their happiness in their own way, including by creating a celebration thread.