True.
It seems that anyone here who calls a spade a spade and shoots straight without a lot of namby-pamby, doesn’t get nominated for sainthood, (“regular”) status. And a lot of this doesn’t make sense. In jest, I quoted a politician in a prior post and had it edited-out by a moderator within five minutes. 
Every other board run with this Discord forum software applies “regular” status based on number of visits and posts.
One of these days, if I’m in the neighborhood, I need to take @Crunchmeister71, (and a few others), out for a beer, a pint, a spot of tea, (etc.), and yarn about old times. 
As far as activity, I guess it depends on where you are. The few threads I lurk get a lot of activity. Maybe people have decided that enough complaining has happened.
What’s important for me is that if I have a question, I post it and I get a prompt and, (usually), courteous answer.