I know! I do plan on continuing to track them, as I wrote a few formulas to automatically scrape merit count, and earned merits (breaks if they have a Copper membership and for a few for reasons I don't know), so it's very little effort (updating the ~5 people that it breaks on manually).
I will remove my copper membership, for convenience sake. I only had it activated to see if I could apply the usergroup anyways. I'll not add to the couple of people that you need to do manual counts for; a few seconds here and there adds up. I'm pretty surprised I'm on the "Top Merited Users of All Time" list, at the bottom of it, but nonetheless I wasn't expecting that. I'll keep doing what I'm doing, hopefully it remains helpful.
There we go, should be better now. Took me awhile to find the page to remove it, if anyone else would like to turn theirs off it is here :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote