So, 30858 accounts have received/sent merit at least once.
Thanks for the info, now all have sense, but I think 30k users active on the merit system still a low number.
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It’s as @TryNinja points out. The driver for the data is the cumulative of merit.txt files, so basically there are all the sMerit TXs since day one, along with the name of the board, sub-board and thread involved. In addition, all user profiles involved are provided (whether they are senders or receivers) , but no information is retrievable if there is no associated merit TX involved.
My confusion comes from the two tables on the link I posted, there we see 'MeritData' and 'UserData' tables, i think the users one was the full user's list because the information we get from this table doesn't mention Merits (It only give UserId, UserName and Rank)
According to Vod's BPIP database, there are 326,673
Active Profiles.
That will say that those accounts have been active for the last 30 days.
Of course many people log in not so frequently, so those numbers are approximate
Well, close to 10% of the total users are active, but let's remember a lot of people use multiple accounts, but 326k still a big number.
Thanks for the information guys