Merit numbers are still not 100% reliable.
The problem is in my parser. It doesn't always read the author of the merited post correctly. Working on it....
Really? It looks your parser works very well with user merited profile page (at least for my case and a few others I checked). I only saw a delayed update on the page of Most merited users.
Why such bugs exist that results in delayed update on Most merited page?
I am not a coder, but I think if your site scraps correct data for each user profile, and shows correct figures for each users. I meant there are bugs when your sites link internal data (of your site), and the bug not come from data scraping process (from exteneral data, from the forum). I guess there are something wrong when you coded to link between each user page (statistics) to the most merited page.
It would be a serious bug if my merit stats (eg.) shows as 596 in both my profile page (that is correct) and in most merited page (that is incorrect), that is not actually what we saw.
BTW, I'm sorry if I say something dump, because I am not coder.