[Merit Analysis] "Self Made" high ranked users based on earned merit

[vlad230]

I recently read a topic where there was a discussion about the users who have earned enough merit and have therefore earned their rank for a second time. I was curious to see how would the user ranks look like if we were to remove the airdropped merit that was given to existing higher ranked users on Jan 24th by default, if they already had an account that was ranked Member & up.

This is a way to encourage new members that are skeptical on the merit system to better see that getting large amounts of merit - some have received 1k merits - is indeed possible. Taking into account merit was designed to be received at the same pace as activity, so having received 1k merits to be "self made" Legendary in 8 months, considering it takes about 3 years to get the activity to be Legendary, is an incredible accomplishment.

As you probably know already, these amounts of merit were given by default and were displayed on the user's profile:

Code:

Member 10 Merit
Full Member 100 Merit
Sr. Member 250 Merit
Hero 500 Merit
Legendary 1000 Merit 

Using Piggy's tool which has the latest merit data (updated an hour ago), let's see how the accounts would look like if we remove this initial merit and only count the earned merit. I am focusing on ranks Full Member & up since these require decent amounts of merit.
I'll try to answer these questions in this post:

1. How many "Self Made" Full Member, Sr. Member, Hero Member or Legendary users would there be if we only considered the earned merit?

Code:

265 Full Members
74 Sr. Members
19 Hero Members
4 Legendary Users

2. Who are the "Self Made" Full Member, Sr. Member, Hero Member or Legendary users if we only considered the earned merit and what rank do they have now?

"Self Made" Full Members:

Code:

UserName	Rank
sabotag3x	Hero Member
hugeblack	Sr. Member
ibminer	Legendary
fine99	Sr. Member
TheBobyHunter	Sr. Member
mithrim	Sr. Member
Flying Hellfish	Staff
paxmao	Sr. Member
vlad230	Full Member
Twinscoin2017	Sr. Member
roycilik	Sr. Member
jillscarbrough	Sr. Member
killyou72	Copper Member
HeRetiK	Hero Member
ui_zakharchenko	Sr. Member
Claymore	Donator
d_eddie	Sr. Member
ocminer	Legendary
TERA2	Full Member
mprep	Global Moderator
Alex_Sr	Full Member
Rosewater Foundation	Full Member
d5000	Legendary
aleksej996	Sr. Member
Aerys2	Sr. Member
mocacinno	Legendary
1Referee	Legendary
LFC_Bitcoin	Copper Member
Silent26	Sr. Member
Xal0lex	Staff
buwaytress	Hero Member
vit05	Sr. Member
1miau	Full Member
Co1n	Sr. Member
alexberezov	Sr. Member
Trofo	Sr. Member
cAPSLOCK	Legendary
ace4549	Sr. Member
morvillz7z	Full Member
laszlo	Full Member
stompix	Hero Member
Mitchell	Staff
amishmanish	Sr. Member
EcuaMobi	Legendary
Joel_Jantsen	Legendary
bitserve	Sr. Member
phantastisch	Staff
EFS	Staff
taikuri13	Full Member
NLNico	Legendary
franky1	Legendary
Goran_	Sr. Member
hirozaki faraday	Sr. Member
Anon136	Legendary
Kreds	Copper Member
crypmike	Full Member
Rhego	Sr. Member
temmuz	Sr. Member
BitcoinTurk	Sr. Member
Wind_FURY	Hero Member
CarlOrff	Sr. Member
HagssFIN	Hero Member
Bitcocoin	Sr. Member
Samarkand	Sr. Member
scutzi128	Sr. Member
tvplus006	Full Member
ICOEthics	Member
Parodium	Sr. Member
Sylon	Legendary
pooya87	Legendary
willdono	Full Member
mu_enrico	Copper Member
aTriz	Hero Member
Hydrogen	Hero Member
Coin++	Sr. Member
Quickseller	Copper Member
spartak_t	Legendary
kirreev070	Full Member
ludbega	Hero Member
manji	Full Member
semux	Full Member
Flodner	Sr. Member
Hakamura	Sr. Member
finaleshot2016	Sr. Member
mindrust	Legendary
ToTheMoon_XOM9IK	Full Member
DooMAD	Legendary
FollowSynergy	Sr. Member
Leteravian	Full Member
Ranyar	Sr. Member
baba0000000000	Sr. Member
Bheze	Sr. Member
First1by	Sr. Member
levyashin	Sr. Member
seoincorporation	Legendary
BitSharke135	Sr. Member
Lafu	Hero Member
NadiaHel	Full Member
Zapo	Copper Member
bolshojkush	Sr. Member
dumbtool45	Sr. Member
BitcoinPenny	Legendary
WaDa	Sr. Member
Yury1	Sr. Member
gamerWOT	Sr. Member
sidehack	Legendary
BOMG	Sr. Member
Chachacoin17	Sr. Member
Coin-1	Sr. Member
ColorlessK	Sr. Member
Tomatocage	Legendary
gunhell16	Sr. Member
Evil-Knievel	Legendary
Gothorum	Sr. Member
Foxpup	Legendary
nessie.io	Newbie
600watt	Legendary
JohnUser	Hero Member
odolvlobo	Legendary
cellard	Legendary
rusbitcoinuser	Full Member
-ck	Staff
SyGambler	Legendary
aliyagiz207	Full Member
mjglqw	Sr. Member
EverGreenCoin	Legendary
MagicSmoker	Full Member
SFR10	Legendary
grue	Legendary
masstahcoiner	Sr. Member
tmfp	Legendary
trantute2	Full Member
inbizin	Full Member
jeremypwr	Legendary
teramit	Legendary
vphasitha01	Full Member
PolyPanto	Sr. Member
Spazzer	Full Member
bones261	Legendary
Speculatoross	Full Member
butka	Full Member
adonay72	Sr. Member
nullCoiner	Sr. Member
Paractor	Full Member
Storx	Full Member
yogg	Legendary
JaoBadjap	Full Member
johhnyUA	Hero Member
toknormal	Legendary
Ale88	Sr. Member
AverageGlabella	Full Member
BrewMaster	Hero Member
vitruvio	Sr. Member
Becassine	Full Member
fengxia	Full Member
yla1974	Sr. Member
TheUltraElite	Hero Member
jseverson	Hero Member
anunymint	Brand new
shahzadafzal	Copper Member
explorer	Legendary
nc50lc	Full Member
slackovic	Full Member
Kakmakr	Legendary
Moloch	Hero Member
dooglus	Legendary
ChiBitCTy	Sr. Member
Heisenberg_Hunter	Full Member
dbshck	Staff
kaar	Full Member
Hal	VIP
Koal-84	Full Member
bobita	Sr. Member
friends1980	Full Member
numanoid	Legendary
CryptoCutie	Full Member
sapta	Staff
Dr.Mann	Jr. Member
Gleb Gamow	Legendary
BTCMILLIONAIRE	Hero Member
devollito	Full Member
lemonrabid	Full Member
nickbelski	Full Member
RGBKey	Hero Member
Raja_MBZ	Hero Member
chimk	Full Member
etherclassic	Member
cissrawk	Sr. Member
gallisiardi	Member
guybrushthreepwood	Legendary
asche	Full Member
dimao	Sr. Member
kenzawak	Full Member
ChardsElican28	Member
RegulusHr	Full Member
Slow death	Hero Member
alia	Jr. Member
emile12	Full Member
icalical	Full Member
jstefanop	Legendary
LastJedi	Full Member
oracleongoodbye	Sr. Member
MarcusMillstrom	Full Member
digaran	Hero Member
temarazin	Full Member
vipganyan	Copper Member
Nestade	Full Member
dinofelis	Hero Member
udonmez	Sr. Member
amaclin1	Full Member
hybridsole	Hero Member
jackg	Copper Member
ETFbitcoin	Legendary
JeremyB	Full Member
duesoldi	Sr. Member
pebwindkraft	Full Member
Hellmouth42	Full Member
Ibian	Legendary
JimboToronto	Legendary
NotFuzzyWarm	Legendary
cryptolord2077	Full Member
squatter	Hero Member
Paashaas	Legendary
crackfoo	Legendary
ophyrim	Sr. Member
roslinpl	Legendary
udivkx	Full Member
Avatar2030	Full Member
DNotes	Legendary
Dabs	Staff
Incognito01	Full Member
MorpheWQ	Legendary
dumbdragon	Sr. Member
kingcarsen	Sr. Member
sourish	Full Member
B!gSmoke	Sr. Member
Ksjywe4ka	Full Member
payjoe93	Full Member
Alone055	Member
OmegaStarScream	Staff
PavelRostov	Full Member
YulyNov	Full Member
denis-z12	Full Member
nutildah	Legendary
Dice-Bet	Full Member
Ekaterinat	Full Member
F2b	Full Member
The_ Flash	Full Member
exus	Full Member
hatshepsut93	Hero Member
mezzomix	Legendary
owlcatz	Legendary
BitPanda.com	Full Member
Bolt Brownie	Sr. Member
Cryptoshka	Full Member
Early_Waffle	Full Member
NeverArgueWithWF	Full Member
Urbinklin	Full Member
chandra12	Full Member
coffeandtango	Newbie
doudou1110	Member
easyboy	Member
jooj	Sr. Member
tyKiwanuka	Full Member
wnj4	Sr. Member

"Self Made" Sr. Members:

Code:

UserName	Rank
iasenko	Sr. Member
o_e_l_e_o	Sr. Member
pitipawn	Full Member
BTCforJoe	Hero Member
sncc	Sr. Member
marlboroza	Hero Member
HCP	Hero Member
HairyMaclairy	Hero Member
TheQuin	Hero Member
bitmover	Full Member
infofront	Legendary
jojo69	Legendary
zazarb	Legendary
qwk	Donator
Hhampuz	Hero Member
Torque	Legendary
DannyHamilton	Legendary
Welsh	Staff
deeperx	Sr. Member
explorder	Sr. Member
LeGaulois	Copper Member
coinlocket$	Sr. Member
GameKyuubi	Sr. Member
OgNasty	Donator
JayJuanGee	Legendary
bill gator	Copper Member
DarkStar_	Legendary
Carlton Banks	Legendary
Smart man	Sr. Member
philipma1957	Legendary
romanornr	Hero Member
xhomerx10	Legendary
yahoo62278	Legendary
abhiseshakana	Full Member
gawlea	Hero Member
mole0815	Sr. Member
PHI1618	Sr. Member
hilariousandco	Global Moderator
QuestionAuthority	Legendary
bob123	Hero Member
Toxic2040	Sr. Member
mfort312	Sr. Member
mstfprcn	Hero Member
pandukelana2712	Sr. Member
pugman	Legendary
Husna QA	Full Member
mdayonliner	Sr. Member
poptop	Hero Member
Matthias9515	Hero Member
BitCryptex	Sr. Member
by rallier	Legendary
esmanthra	Sr. Member
shorena	Copper Member
Xynerise	Sr. Member
actmyname	Copper Member
Coolcryptovator	Copper Member
zentdex	Full Member
TryNinja	Hero Member
gentlemand	Legendary
tonych	Hero Member
zonefloor	Hero Member
alex bond	Hero Member
AlyattesLydia	Sr. Member
Limx Dev	Copper Member
Elwar	Legendary
saulzaents	Hero Member
ATMcoin	Hero Member
Ajpa94	Brand new
RuSS512	Sr. Member
Steamtyme	Sr. Member
Tukang Becak	Hero Member
athanz88	Sr. Member
identifyuser	Hero Member
minerjones	Copper Member

"Self Made" Hero Members:

Code:

UserName	Rank
hilariousetc	Legendary
Last of the V8s	Hero Member
nullius	Copper Member
Lutpin	Copper Member
Jet Cash	Legendary
suchmoon	Legendary
Vod	Legendary
The Pharmacist	Legendary
TMAN	Hero Member
achow101	Staff
xtraelv	Sr. Member
micgoossens	Sr. Member
Lauda	Legendary
Piggy	Hero Member
joniboini	Sr. Member
theyoungmillionaire	Full Member
krogothmanhattan	Hero Member
gmaxwell	Staff
BobLawblaw	Legendary

"Self Made" Legendary Members:

Code:

UserName	Rank
theymos	Administrator
satoshi	Founder
LoyceV	Legendary
DdmrDdmr	Sr. Member

3. Who are the users that could be "Self Made" Full Member, Sr. Member, Hero Member or Legendary that have enough earned merit but do not have enough activity?^2,3

The "Self Made" Full Members that will upgrade rank once they have enough activity:

Code:

UserName	Rank	Total Earned Merit
Claymore	Donator	218
mprep	Global Moderator	212
ICOEthics	Member	168
nessie.io	Newbie	148
anunymint	Brand new	127
Hal	VIP	122
Dr.Mann	Jr. Member	119
etherclassic	Member	116
gallisiardi	Member	115
ChardsElican28	Member	113
alia	Jr. Member	113
Alone055	Member	102
coffeandtango	Newbie	100
doudou1110	Member	100
easyboy	Member	100

The "Self Made" Sr. Members that will upgrade rank once they have enough activity:

Code:

UserName	Rank	Total Earned Merit
pitipawn	Full Member	478
bitmover	Full Member	412
qwk	Donator	384
OgNasty	Donator	355
abhiseshakana	Full Member	325
hilariousandco	Global Moderator	321
Husna QA	Full Member	291
zentdex	Full Member	262
Ajpa94	Brand new	250

The "Self Made" Hero Members that will upgrade rank once they have enough activity:

Code:

UserName	Rank	Total Earned Merit
xtraelv	Sr. Member	649
micgoossens	Sr. Member	616
joniboini	Sr. Member	555
theyoungmillionaire	Full Member	554

The "Self Made" Legendary Members that will upgrade rank once they have enough activity:

Code:

UserName	Rank	Total Earned Merit
DdmrDdmr	Sr. Member	1000

Notes:
2. Users that have the rank of Founder, Administrator, Staff have been excluded from these stats as they have a special status that can get them merit more easily than the average user.
3. Until we have updated User data that includes the "true" rank of users, I have also removed Copper Members users from these stats.

Disclaimer:
1. The user rank data is 5-6 days old so you can expect some discrepancies in the data show here. Nonetheless, I will update everything once the user data is updated.

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[Dukjila]

Everything should be honest, Merit should reflect the rank, free Merit is just misleading.

A lot of spam accounts.

P.S. I put the Merit author, as I can!

[JetAid]

Don't forget that some Heroes received an airdrop of more thn 500 merits if they had enough activity for the basic legendary requirement.

Jet Cash was not one of those.

[vlad230]

Everything should be honest, Merit should reflect the rank, free Merit is just misleading.

A lot of spam accounts.

P.S. I put the Merit author, as I can!

Yes, indeed, there are a lot of account with higher ranks that spam the sh*t out of this forum. Just check Bitcoin & Altcoin discussion.

Don't forget that some Heroes received an airdrop of more thn 500 merits if they had enough activity for the basic legendary requirement.

Jet Cash was not one of those.

Only the earned merit is counted anyway. I have listed the airdropped merit to give a bit of background to the whole idea.

I know there are Hero members that have received 1000 merits because the promotion to Legendary is based on variable activity range 775-1030.

[chiyenbtre]

Just kidding, but it's really interesting to get tons of self-made Newbies due to the latest upgrade of the forum's rank requirements which requires at least one merit to be a Junior Member.
Furtheremore, @LoyceV managed a highly informative topic on potential new ranked Junior Members after the start of new rank requirements around one week ago.
List of demoted Jr. Members who were ranked up again

[LoyceV]

In my humble opinion, "Self-made Legendary" means the user has both the required Merit and Activity. Satoshi can't be one of those, as he hasn't posted in 8 years.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Man, I lucked out when I made Legendary.  Not only did I have to wait until I had an activity of 1023 (or thereabouts), but I achieved the rank right before the merit system was implemented.  It's pure luck that I'm not still a Hero member.  Earning 1000 merits takes a hell of a lot of time.

I like these lists here.  Newbie bounty spammers are constantly complaining that it's too hard to rank up, but here's solid evidence that anyone can do it if they put in enough *quality* effort.

[Lafu]

I like these lists here.  Newbie bounty spammers are constantly complaining that it's too hard to rank up, but here's solid evidence that anyone can do it if they put in enough *quality* effort.

That's my main goal to reach this! 
And it takes time to doing that but it can be done !
Never give up !

[gellany32]

Furtheremore, @LoyceV managed a highly informative topic on potential new ranked Junior Members after the start of new rank requirements around one week ago.
List of demoted Jr. Members who were ranked up again

I was just curios about this one that has 100 merit with newbie account cool newbie 100 merit here rank seems questionable.

Just kidding, but it's really interesting to get tons of self-made Newbies due to the latest upgrade of the forum's rank requirements which requires at least one merit to be a Junior Member.

Do you have a tool for this to check on how many jr.members was being demoted to newbie rank?

I bet those days were lucky days for some members here that has got default merit since they had complied already the activity that was being required to rank up  not until the implementation of the merit system which other members could hardly rank up then. Though there are people that has made their account to rank up but I bet these members are an extraordinary or genius when it comes to technicalities of this forum and could be able to produce high quality post from the technical aspects of this forum more likely IT experts and computer programming genius just one post for that aspect they could gather more or less 10 merits per post. So we could expect that achieving full member rank would only be a 10 post for them. And in the likes of us newbie? Well, no comment. LOL

[o_e_l_e_o]

Though there are people that has made their account to rank up but I bet these members are an extraordinary or genius when it comes to technicalities of this forum and could be able to produce high quality post from the technical aspects of this forum more likely IT experts and computer programming genius just one post for that aspect they could gather more or less 10 merits per post. So we could expect that achieving full member rank would only be a 10 post for them. And in the likes of us newbie? Well, no comment. LOL

I wholeheartedly disagree.

I am currently the 25th most merited poster on the forum, having earned 498 merit at time of writing. I am not an IT expert, a programmer, or a genius. I certainly don't think I'm an extraordinary poster. The only reason I'm a good poster is because the bar is set so low by the thousands of spammers dragging down the average.

My advice to newbies looking for merit is always the same - read far, far more than you post, and only post at all if you have an original, coherent thought that hasn't been said 100 times before.

[vphasitha01]

I recently read a topic where there was a discussion about the users who have earned enough merit and have therefore earned their rank.

Is this the place where that discussion held

Can you guess the rank?? It's my own creation and I called it Elite Legendary

How about self-made Legendary?

I was curious to see how would the user ranks look like if we were to remove the airdropped merit that was given to existing higher ranked users on Jan 24th by default, if they already had an account that was ranked Member & up.

Good job OP. I am also thinking about this idea a while and it's nice to see you make that list. I think this "earned merit" concept also has two sides. By just considering the earned merits only would not determine whether those particular users "self-made" rank. Some of those users would gain more merits than the newly registered users (users registered after Jan 24^th) for their old posts if the merit system would be implemented earlier. So as a fact we can't just compare the users having a lot of earned merits with the early legendaries at least in some cases. Other side of that fact is also true because some of the so-called legendaries would not be able to rank up even full member status if the merit system implemented earlier.

In my humble opinion, "Self-made Legendary" means the user has both the required Merit and Activity. Satoshi can't be one of those, as he hasn't posted in 8 years.

Actually, with all due respect, Satoshi, he shouldn't be on this list. @theymos and @LoyceV are the first two self-made legendaries

[mu_enrico]

Never give up !

Wish me luck guys!

[vlad230]

In my humble opinion, "Self-made Legendary" means the user has both the required Merit and Activity.

Agreed. Activity is important too, it takes a lot of dedication to post here for a rough 3 years to gain 1k activity.

At this time, activity is not available in the Piggy's tool so, could not take it into account. He said he's going to include it so, I'll be creating more elaborate lists when available.

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I like these lists here.  Newbie bounty spammers are constantly complaining that it's too hard to rank up, but here's solid evidence that anyone can do it if they put in enough *quality* effort.

There are about 5k "self made" members so, I think the newbies that are complaining are just the spammers, not the ones doing good posts.
Didn't want to add those metrics since I considered earning 10 merits trivial.

[TheBeardedBaby]

So are we "Self Made Hero-to-be-on-time" then? I need 5 more months to reach the activity for Hero, and if all goes with the same tempo as til now, looks like till then I'll be having enough merit for Legendary which in terms of activity will be in 2 years, somewhere in 2020.. o_0

[chiyenbtre]

I don't have tools for this, but @LoyceV have made a great topic on this issue.
What do you need more?
List of demoted Jr. Members who were ranked up again

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Do you have a tool for this to check on how many jr.members was being demoted to newbie rank?

Did you want to get a case study?
here you go: Full Member thanks to merit system (iasenko)
Please read it carefully.

Though there are people that has made their account to rank up but I bet these members are an extraordinary or genius when it comes to technicalities of this forum and could be able to produce high quality post from the technical aspects of this forum more likely IT experts and computer programming genius just one post for that aspect they could gather more or less 10 merits per post. So we could expect that achieving full member rank would only be a 10 post for them.

All ones have same rights to compose, then publish their threads, show off their ideas. All deserved merit threads will catch attention of forum users, sometimes got merits from readers, sometimes don't get them, but it's not too bad. At least, highly qualitied threads have higher odds to catch attention of readers. That's enough.

And in the likes of us newbie? Well, no comment. LOL

[xtraelv]

Merit was designed to be accumulated at approximately the same rate as activity.

So there are a lot of Legendary that have not yet received 1000 merits (other than their airdropped merits).

It is expected to take at least 2 - 3 years to rank to Legendary so for Legendaries it would be unfair to say that they don't have the self made merit.

If a legendary received around 200- 300 merits by now they would be well on their way to being "self made" by the time the 2-3 years are up.

Also people often have bursts on a forum  (Periods where they post a lot) . So they may be taking it easy at the moment.

Some really good content was posted over a number of years but only the "famous historic content" gets merited.

Most merit is given to new content.

[vlad230]

So are we "Self Made Hero-to-be-on-time" then? I need 5 more months to reach the activity for Hero, and if all goes with the same tempo as til now, looks like till then I'll be having enough merit for Legendary which in terms of activity will be in 2 years, somewhere in 2020.. o_0

Yeah... hang on buddy You're going to rank-up in no time.
Maybe there would be a good idea to automatically rank up to Legendary in case you reach 2k merit and not have the required activity. @theymos, what do you say?

Merit was designed to be accumulated at approximately the same rate as activity.

So there are a lot of Legendary that have not yet received 1000 merits (other than their airdropped merits).

It is expected to take at least 2 - 3 years to rank to Legendary so for Legendaries it would be unfair to say that they don't have the self made merit.

If a legendary received around 200- 300 merits by now they would be well on their way to being "self made" by the time the 2-3 years are up.
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Totally agree. These stats are not made to upset any people who are not "self made" yet. But a way to prove to others, who are skeptical on the merit system, that it is actually possible to rank-up and gather large amounts of merit.
Getting 1k merits is no easy task and some people have managed to do it, not to mention that there are 19 Heros & 74 Sr. Members that are "self made" and a lot of those people are the current Legendary members. So, they haven't got the Legendary rank for nothing.
I have edited the OP, after reading it again I see how the message could be perceived in a different way by some readers.

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Some really good content was posted over a number of years but only the "famous historic content" gets merited.

Most merit is given to new content.

I would say this is partially true, as I see there are a lot of posts from the past that were merited.
For the majority of cases you're right, older posts did not get the visibility, thus were not merited.

[LoyceV]

Merit was designed to be accumulated at approximately the same rate as activity.

What worries me though is that the most merited users have only received 4 times that amount (I'm not counting theymos as a user), and that just 100 users have received enough Merit to keep up with Activity. Those 100 users include users who got their merit through abuse.
When I look at half this amount (0.5 Merit per Activity), there are 250 users who have reached this. If I scroll down the list further, I still see many names I recognize (and many unknown names too). I think many of those users shouldn't be restricted by Merit, which implies there isn't enough Merit going around.

Maybe there would be a good idea to automatically rank up to Legendary in case you reach 2k merit and not have the required activity. @theymos, what do you say?

Bad idea, that can be gamed. The current system of requiring both a long time commitment to the forum as well as quality posts is a good combination.
Example: nullius! He posted for a few months only, then disappeared. If he would have stayed one month longer, he would have been Legendary in your proposal. But he lacks the long term commitment.

[vlad230]

What worries me though is that the most merited users have only received 4 times that amount (I'm not counting theymos as a user), and that just 100 users have received enough Merit to keep up with Activity. Those 100 users include users who got their merit through abuse.
When I look at half this amount (0.5 Merit per Activity), there are 250 users who have reached this. If I scroll down the list further, I still see many names I recognize (and many unknown names too). I think many of those users shouldn't be restricted by Merit, which implies there isn't enough Merit going around.

Yes, that's right, merit is usually not enough and merit sources tend to pass along low amounts of it. If the amounts would increase I think the re-circulation would work better and would reach more users.

Bad idea, that can be gamed. The current system of requiring both a long time commitment to the forum as well as quality posts is a good combination.
Example: nullius! He posted for a few months only, then disappeared. If he would have stayed one month longer, he would have been Legendary in your proposal. But he lacks the long term commitment.

Ok, I see your point. I was just thinking of a way to reward users by doing so.
Maybe a new rank would make more sense then, something like "Self Made Member" maybe?

[LoyceV]

I was just thinking of a way to reward users by doing so.

"Merit" is the reward already. It's an amazing system: I didn't need any from the beginning, and yet, I want to have more of it.

Maybe a new rank would make more sense then, something like "Self Made Member" maybe?

Ultimately, we should all become self-made members