OP is jjust sucking the dick of high ranks. You can tell that worm is just going around fishing for merit, he doesn't actually contribute much to this forum.
That isn't true, though. Even if he wants to get merit--which a lot of people do, and it's a hot topic around here--he does contribute to bitcointalk, and his posts are well-constructed, and you can tell he puts some thought into them. His grasp of English isn't perfect, but it's perfectly acceptable. I've given him a few merits since Janurary because I thought the posts I merited were worthy of them.
There are many members here who make posts that you can tell are just attempts at squeezing merits out of suckers, but those posts tend to be very poorly written and the content is usually a sentiment that's been expressed many times before. Mdayonliner's posts, by comparison, are constructive and he's done a good job reporting cheaters. I respect anyone who does that, unless they prove themselves to somehow be a scumbag otherwise, and that has happened.
I'm not getting involved in this beef between xtraelv and mdayonliner any more than I have and won't unless it becomes very obvious that something is amiss. At present I have no problems with either member.
Is there really only 3 posters who have ranked up since the Merit system was introduced?
No, I don't think that's true. There was a thread about members who've ranked up since the end of January, and there were more than three if I recall correctly. And I am glad that there haven't been many people ranking up, because most of them are spammers and don't deserve to.
By the way, anyone know what happened to nullius?