Quote from: withlove99 on September 18, 2018, 01:57:08 PM

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You do realize that you are quoting data that is outdated by far right? The updated Merit Source data can be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=sources

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There are 120 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 23045 sMerit per 30 days

Thats the problem that I earlier stated on this same thread. Someone bumped it up, conversation gets going on the thread, but essential information on the thread is stale and thus misleading.

Quote from: manyexp on September 18, 2018, 02:10:39 PM

<>However, it does not help to build knowledge of bitcoin&cryptoccurrency at all. It seems odd that more Merits are awarded to Rules & Merit than knowledge of cryptocurrency.<>

Ill use a similar argument that Ive used before. In a corporation that makes shoes, only a reduced set of the workers have the technical capabilities to design them, the rest all know how to wear the shoes, but perform other tasks that, brought together, keep the company on its feet (no pun intended). Publicist, salesmen, finance and administration, logistics, etc. all put their part into making the shoe brand become what it is. The analogy goes to say that, although Bitcoin is the core conceptual driver of this forum, we can create meritable posts in many areas.

Merit in the Bitcoin section is indeed not as widespread as one would think, but the general Bitcoin Discussion thread is way too spammed currently, and finding good posts there is not easy. On the other hand, the more technical subsections are not comprehensible by many, and therefore bare less attention by meriters probably than they deserve. Fortunately, there are now more Merit Sources around to try to reach out, but paradoxically (and logically), the more technical the topic the less people that are going to understand it or even be really interested in it. Going back to the shoe corporation example, the designers are essential there, but not many people really understand their language

Quote from: GDragon on September 18, 2018, 02:25:41 PM

<> as far as I know, btt have more than 2 million members <>

There are currently 2.381.734 accounts (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats), although in terms of active accounts (logged in within the last three months) there are something like 368.297 according to @vods BPIP (see https://bpip.org). That means that chances are better than one would have thought initially.