The detection algorithm has been upgraded. Now the analysis takes into consideration the ranks of users on the day the merit system has been introduced.

The maximal initial amounts of sMerit that have been credited on January 24, 2018:

• Legendary - 200 sMerit
• Hero Member - 88 sMerit
• Senior Member - 32 sMerit
• Full Member - 7 sMerit
• Member - 1 sMerit
• Jr. Member - 0 sMerit

Such a way the merit sources of all ranks were detected. Here is the table ordered by the indicator "Maximal generosity" below.

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	User name	Rank at Jan 24, 2018	Generosity	Comment
1)	suchmoon	was Legendary	25017
2)	dbshck	was Legendary	15805	moderator of the Indonesian local board
3)	Foxpup	was Legendary	11789
4)	chimk	was Full Member	11762	active in the Russian local board
5)	LoyceV	was Legendary	9796
6)	theymos	was Legendary	8766	administrator of the forum
7)	bones261	was Legendary	8302
8)	qwk	was Legendary	6035	active in the German local board
9)	frodocooper	was Sr. Member	5956	moderator of the section "Mining"
10)	TMAN	was Hero Member	5859
11)	Flying Hellfish	was Legendary	5661	moderator of the section "Politics & Society"
12)	Welsh	was Legendary	5569	moderator of the section "Altcoins"
13)	JayJuanGee	was Legendary	5457
14)	DarkStar_	was Legendary	5319
15)	xandry	was Legendary	5040	moderator of the Russian local board
16)	Halab	was Member	4844	moderator of the French local board
17)	ETFbitcoin	was Legendary	4305	active in the Indonesian local board
18)	vapourminer	was Legendary	4292
19)	DdmrDdmr	was Newbie	4213	active in the Spanish local board
20)	El duderino_	was Full Member	4089
21)	Vod	was Legendary	4016	not a merit source anymore
22)	EFS	was Legendary	3667	moderator of the Turkish local board
23)	OgNasty	was Legendary	3564
24)	LFC_Bitcoin	was Legendary	3438
25)	paxmao	was Full Member	3247	active in the Spanish local board
26)	hugeblack	was Full Member	3193	active in the Arabic local board
27)	QuestionAuthority	was Legendary	3189	not a merit source anymore
28)	Blacknavy	was Sr. Member	3021	active in the Turkish local board
29)	fillippone	wasn't registered	3009	active in the Italian local board
30)	Ratimov	wasn't registered	3000	active in the Russian local board
31)	Vlad2Vlad	was Legendary	2562
32)	malevolent	was Legendary	2455	moderator of the Polish local board
33)	krogothmanhattan	was Sr. Member	2425
34)	BobLawblaw	was Legendary	2288
35)	Jet Cash	was Hero Member	2049
36)	mindrust	was Legendary	1809
37)	1miau	wasn't registered	1796	active in the German local board
38)	The Pharmacist	was Legendary	1757
39)	Vispilio	was Sr. Member	1743	active in the Turkish local board
40)	Micio	was Legendary	1730	active in the Italian local board
41)	SyGambler	was Legendary	1654	active in the Arabic local board
42)	Mitchell	was Legendary	1641
43)	Globb0	was Legendary	1629
44)	klarki	was Legendary	1594	active in the Russian local board
45)	joniboini	was Member	1566	active in the Indonesian local board
46)	tyz	was Legendary	1533	active in the German local board
47)	tk808	was Hero Member	1451
48)	cabalism13	was Newbie	1448	active in the Philippine local board
49)	nutildah	was Legendary	1447
50)	teramit	was Legendary	1426	active in the Turkish local board
51)	o_e_l_e_o	was Full Member	1380
52)	Heisenberg_Hunter	was Newbie	1274	active in the India local board
53)	Buchi-88	was Legendary	1270	active in the German local board
54)	mprep	was Legendary	1126	global moderator
55)	CryptopreneurBrainboss	was Member	1113
56)	OmegaStarScream	was Legendary	1060	moderator of the Arabic local board
57)	Vadi2323	was Legendary	1019	active in the Russian local board, not a merit source anymore
58)	redsn0w	was Legendary	1010	active in the Italian local board
59)	Quickseller	was Legendary	980
60)	marcus_of_augustus	was Legendary	972
61)	Coolcryptovator	wasn't registered	964
62)	infofront	was Legendary	930
63)	Mr. Big	was Legendary	911	moderator of the Philippine local board
64)	philipma1957	was Legendary	879
65)	600watt	was Legendary	848	active in the German local board
66)	Royse777	was Hero Member	826
67)	Hueristic	was Legendary	826
68)	Alex_Sr	wasn't registered	780	active in the Russian local board
69)	Bitcoin Forum	service account	717
70)	jbreher	was Legendary	702
71)	Daniel91	was Legendary	680	active in the Croatian local board
72)	babo	was Legendary	671	active in the Italian local board
73)	Dabs	was Legendary	664	moderator of the Philippine local board
74)	mole0815	was Newbie	642	active in the German local board
75)	theymos_away	was Newbie	639
76)	bitmover	was Newbie	633	active in the Portuguese local board
77)	cAPSLOCK	was Legendary	616
78)	marlboroza	was Hero Member	594	active in the Croatian local board
79)	squatz1	was Hero Member	589
80)	Husna QA	wasn't registered	528	active in the Indonesian local board
81)	CjMapope	was Legendary	520
82)	iCEBREAKER	was Legendary	490
83)	sapta	was Legendary	462	moderator of the Indonesian local board
84)	stingers	was Legendary	458	not a merit source anymore
85)	achow101	was Legendary	453	moderator of the section "Technical Discussion"
86)	sabotag3x	was Hero Member	438	active in the Portuguese local board
87)	RegulusHr	was Full Member	432	was active in the Croatian local board, banned for plagiarism
88)	hilariousandco	was Legendary	430	global moderator
89)	criptix	was Legendary	417	active in the German local board
90)	mhanbostanci	was Legendary	408	active in the Turkish local board
91)	d5000	was Legendary	400	active in the German local board
92)	TimeTeller	was Hero Member	396
93)	eternalgloom	was Legendary	359
94)	esmanthra	wasn't registered	352	active in the Russian local board
95)	tokeweed	was Legendary	349
96)	Anon11073	was Sr. Member	347	moderator of the Japanese local board
97)	Cyrus	was Legendary	340	administrator of the forum, active in the Romanian local board
98)	ebliever	was Legendary	337
99)	phantastisch	was Legendary	279	moderator of the German local board
100)	mitzie	was Legendary	261	moderator of the Greek local board
101)	F2b	was Member	243	active in the French local board
102)	HagssFIN	was Legendary	242
103)	digaran	was Hero Member	229	not a merit source anymore
104)	kryptqnick	was Legendary	227
105)	chek2fire	was Legendary	220	active in the Greek local board
106)	pawel7777	was Legendary	205
107)	BitCryptex	was Member	176	active in the Polish local board
108)	pandukelana2712	was Member	169	active in the Indonesian local board
109)	amishmanish	was Full Member	150	active in the India local board
110)	Barcode_	was Hero Member	134	moderator of the Chinese local board
111)	baba0000000000	was Full Member	115	active in the French local board
112)	friends1980	was Full Member	112	active in the Dutch local board
113)	nanna	was Full Member	79	active in the Japanese local board

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The rest of such users will probably be spotted later.

See also on the current page:

• statistics on the merit distribution by sources

This post is relevant for May 15, 2020, and has been updated on May 19, 2020.