Why are there no user ranks?
To be honest – I think user ranks are the most senseless thing that was ever invented on a bulletin board. Those ranks tell nothing about the posts quality or experience the particular user has, they only map his number of posts to groups with the same name and put an artificial icon besides it. All this does is making users create even more posts, useful or not, only to get a higher rank. It is part of my philosophy to create an easy-to-use and not overloaded software, so you’re not going to see such a useless feature here.