Lauda is the highest rank, aTriz is the second highest. Along with this, there is little to no benefit for either to get a higher rank anyway (other than aTriz just being able to say 'Look at me I'm Legendary' - which is admittedly pretty nice).
So Lauda had joined the forum than pther people? or does
Lauda = Theymos ?since Lauda is having highest merit points as you said.
The Merit system is intended to be used if you find a post, or the person posting it, constructive and beneficial to the forum...
It's not possible to merit a person, and therefore you have to merit a post that they have made. [/quote]
It's not a constructive post or benefited to the forums and both run same service called
ALU 
An example in my case is my 50 merits to Lutpin. I've known Lutpin for a while and I consider them to be an extremely beneficial member to the forum, and therefore I gave him 50 merit on a post of his.
As you said above, merit is based on the constructive post and now you are saying merit is for a known person. Why you change your words while posting here?
You know Lutpin and do you know Theymos, Sathoshi NAKAMOTO?