confused as to how the position system works around here,

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1) Newbie  2)Jr. Member  3)Full Member  4)Sr. Member  5)IDK

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1)IDK  2)IDK  3)IDK  4)IDK 5)Hero Member

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1)IDK  2)IDK  3)IDK  4)IDK  5)Administrator ...
also i may just be imagining things but i thought i had seen some normal members with mercs?

does the system even work like this or does it skip over a few ?

How I understood it:

Normal users (Depends on No of posts):

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1) Newbie  2)Jr. Member  3)Full Member  4)Sr. Member  5)Hero Member


Administrators (all of them):
 


Other signatures have no meaning (or so special I've never met any)

In any case, personally I only distinguish benween Administrator (the ones to address with some site management related things) and All users (normal postings), no other differentiation is important to me at all...

I was just curious, because i get confused alot.