Been following discussion here, but I was so busy all through yesterday that I didn't get any chance of replying here.
Over all, from the way the forum is programmed, I think this will definitely happen to mostly, all the teleported members who are of legendary ranks, who manages to reach the 2000 activity level without not so many positive karma yet, oh, and I learnt that, time spent on the forum and number of topics created is also a factor to put into consideration.
If admin is not going to do away with this method of ranking up, I think he should create a thread explaining in numbers, all the requirements and criterias to meet before a user could each respective ranks, this way, things like this don't be a source of confusion for users.
Anyways, I did pm admin, he replied and said I should re-pm him in one week time if the problem persist, so, I am possibly hoping the admin could help find a way around this for me, and to other users who may encounter this in the future - this is if this is not permanently re-programmed anyway.