I do go to a person’s Activity page to check the last several hundred posts they made. If they did only one-lines like “wow (emoji)” or “that is great” or “i want one of those” then I’m not giving them the rank. We want somebody that can keep a decent conversation.
But I also suspect some people are in it for the discount. There are also people that have never asked for a rank. Another human thing. They save 10%, which makes them so happy they end up spending twice as much. Supermarkets thrive on this concept.
Maybe we should do a secret rank for people which have reached 2k posts and never asked for a rank-up.
PS Love the GIF too.