Isn't
this list much easier to scrape those users?
The ones with 9 Merit got me thinking:
I don't think this list is complete, right? I count 203 accounts with 9 Merit, and 1850 accounts with 10 Merit. That can't be a coincidence, does it mean 8 out of 9 Members have been trading Merit?
I couldn't resist, here's more data (based on last Friday's Merit data dump. Note: I didn't check for Activity):
1. merit received by 5959 users
2. merit received by 2542 users
3. merit received by 1239 users
4. merit received by 815 users
5. merit received by 1000 users
6. merit received by 581 users
7. merit received by 419 users
8. merit received by 302 users
9. merit received by 203 users
10. merit received by 1850 users (enough to rank up to Member)
11. merit received by 373 users
12. merit received by 293 users
13. merit received by 180 users
14. merit received by 146 users
15. merit received by 132 users
16. merit received by 110 users
17. merit received by 85 users
18. merit received by 96 users
19. merit received by 84 users
20. merit received by 144 users (round numbers are popular!)
21. merit received by 79 users
22. merit received by 69 users
23. merit received by 62 users
24. merit received by 50 users
.........
46. merit received by 13 users
47. merit received by 14 users
48. merit received by 13 users
49. merit received by 9 users
50. merit received by 63 users (giving 50 Merit at once used to be abused a lot)
51. merit received by 28 users52. merit received by 19 users
53. merit received by 12 users
.........
84. merit received by 8 users
85. merit received by 3 users
86. merit received by 4 users
87. merit received by 7 users
88. merit received by 6 users
89. merit received by 2 users
90. merit received by 29 users (enough to rank up from Member to Full Member)
91. merit received by 7 users
92. merit received by 8 users
93. merit received by 7 users
94. merit received by 5 users
95. merit received by 3 users
96. merit received by 9 users
97. merit received by 2 users
98. merit received by 7 users
99. merit received by 2 users
100. merit received by 9 users (enough to rank up to Full Member from scratch)
101. merit received by 7 users102. merit received by 5 users
103. merit received by 3 users
.........
238. merit received by 2 users
244. merit received by 1 users
248. merit received by 1 users
250. merit received by 4 users (Sr. Member level, without much data to go on)
251. merit received by 1 users
254. merit received by 1 users
255. merit received by 1 users
256. merit received by 1 users
257. merit received by 1 users
258. merit received by 1 users
261. merit received by 1 users