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I haven’t encountered the case you mention going over an end of 2018 full profile database I’ve got (provided by @piggy at the time), being the number of posts is consistent with at least the minimum Activity range value.
There are some limited cases (those with at least 1 earned merit) that I can detect as de-ranked, having a high initial rank to begin with.
Wolf0 is probably the worst case, having gone from Legendary or (Hero with 1K Merits) back to Member.
desynct went from Hero member to Brand New (and subsequently seems to have abandoned the account after the event).
I can't recall when I encounter things in the forum exactly, tried to search and I found this
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1226681.msg16290560#msg16290560The account isn't hero anymore after few days?
Or there was a change when the merit system was implemented?
Or does it take days to demote a hero +/- legendary?
I still believe legendary is a permanent rank unless there was a recent change that I am not aware of? Cannot be the only one here encountering this before 2018!