In the first quote you gave an answer that gave the impression that you understood the intent behind what we were asking. You tried to lead us to a new point that we didn't question, which was rank and merit. From an explanation that has no clear purpose except to fulfill a campaign posting requirement, you pretend to show us that you are fishing for merit.
In the second quote, you gave a similar explanation to some of the higher ranking members and we felt that it was not from your knowledge but you were trying to write differently.
Now the number of posts I have made totals 25, not including this post. Usually I don't have to wait long to balance the number of activities with the number of posts.
It seems like the forum system is working well regarding updates.
Do we need to keep bothering ourselves on what had already been well explained here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/faq-everything-you-need-to-know-about-forum-activity-account-ranks-and-merit-2766177 about how merit and activities works, why not read it very careful and understand the process instead of arguing what is not, am very sure of it that if you don't meet up with the required activities needed for a particular rank there's no how you can be able to rank up even when you have the required merits for that rank.
Now the number of posts I have made totals 25, not including this post. Usually I don't have to wait long to balance the number of activities with the number of posts.
It seems like the forum system is working well regarding updates.
What some members missed out is the activity count per 14 days being active on the forum, you can only post 2 post within this period and then your activity remain just with an additional 2, after some times, you also decided to post more than 14 posts between two weeks, you will also only have that 14 counted for your activities and so on, the forum can't cheat you on that if you don't do that by yourself.
Don't claim to be able if the skills aren't there.
Don't referee a game that is not your profession my friend.