With the obvious exceptions of theymos and satoshi, LoyceV might well be the first "regular" forum user to break 1000 earned merits. Which, for anyone who joined the forum after merit was introduced, is now the threshold to attain Legendary rank. That's quite the achievement.
Since I realized that, it feels like it takes forever to get there. I plan to change my personal text to "Self-made Legendary"

I'm a full member

... It is certainly hard to get quite a lot of merits, you had any fifties loyce in one go?
The only people who give 50 merits are to their alt accounts

. Think most I've got was 15 in one go. Got 25 when I applied to be a merit source though:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5030895.msg45830402#msg45830402 (which included my quote of post that got 15 (but only after I posted that thread)).
We may also give bonuses for the best posters from time to time.
What happened to this? I think you should start dishing out some extra dough to the most meritorious

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