In my opinion a forum is not just based on learning, but also based on teaching, so this title shows that you really help the community and that you are a trusted person and that this title is not meant to give people the role of “exclusive members” in the community as @buildthomas said. It just means they trust you, so they give you more permission.
From my understanding, they’ve been slowly bringing in this system over a few months now. You’ll find some members of ‘the 50’ were promoted 2 months ago, while some were recent and others over the next day or so.
Correction:
*from today and over the next few days.
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This change is awesome! Thank you guys for working on it.
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That sounds quite reasonable, I was expecting a rather large influx of newly promoted users within a short space of time from this statement. However, it’s probably best to assume that starts from now with other new members.
Welcome to the newly promoted club! 
Jokes aside, I can’t wait to see all of the new faces who have been promoted.
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Just got the message that I’m now a member, joining you guys in the newly promoted club
(was confused at first because it happened after the announcement post, but it’s probably just taking a bit of time)
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I think this new automated system will be good but every automated system has it flaws. People will try and record how to “cheat” the system and get promoted to the member class. Obviously the moderation on this forum is very good and fast. It’ll be interesting to see how this automated promotion to member turns out.
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I’m currently gathering statistics on each promoted member. My goal is to eventually be able to provide helpful goals for visitors and new members so that they know what their stats need to be around to get promoted.
Due to each person being different (some people have no topics but 2k likes), there’s no way I can get set numbers. I think this will be a great incentive for people to keep working. provided they don’t spam
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awesome! can’t wait to (hopefully) achieve the member rank after being a “new member” for years haha
Uh… So it looks like all you need to do is to be active, i hope that atleast “real devs” with some experience will get “member” role, anyway maybe it’s a good change because of amount of people that got into dev forum, we’ll see how it works…
I personally have full confidence in the system they have in place. Sure, it won’t be as accurate as a human (we are talking about computers, after all), but many of the people I’ve personally thought to be very helpful have been automatically promoted so far. As long as the rest are caught manually, I think it’ll work out over time 
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This is really nice! 
Automation really is making the job easier for many people
Discourse doesn’t update it instantly for every user. After a day or so we expect 40-50 people to be promoted. It’s not like this trickle will carry on like this forever, it will probably become much slower after 1-2 days as it runs out of this first batch of users to promote.
The 50 are the ones that will be promoted over the next 2 days. We have manually promoted some people over the past X months but that was not based on these promotion criteria necessarily.
The requirements are not insurmountable for busy people, if that’s what you’re referring to. It’s not like we’re asking you to be a rocket scientist or a keyboard warrior that spends 24/7 on the forum and isn’t actually developing. It’s just a reasonable speed bump, nothing more nothing less.
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Thank you for the clarification!
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Looks like a great update, this should make attaining Member much easier.
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I can’t say we get this attitude a lot – we accept about >90% of posts and most people seem to be pretty appreciative of the points of improvements that are normally suggested. Could you follow up with me in private with links to the messages?
Keep in mind that all feedback is in good faith: the process is not intended as a time-waster, it’s making sure you are following the guidelines so your posts aren’t put in an invisible trash bin in the background once posted. Engineers will not consider threads that are not reproducible / do not have use cases / etc.
TLDR; No one is trying to waste time, it is always in good faith to make sure your posts are as presentable as they can be to ensure staff take them into consideration.
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Seems like a good update, getting promoted to Member seems to be more realistic now!
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Thanks again for giving so many newcomers to the forum (like myself) a chance to be more involved with the community, it’s been great.
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This has it’s upsides and downsides in my opinion. The upside is that promotions will go smoother and more frequent. The downside is that there will always be those people attempting and hoping to get promoted by just spamming nonsense on the forums. As the spamming won’t affect their rank nor a rankup it will most likely be alot of more work for Moderators
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