There are 1778 users ranked Sr. Member & up that have not earned any merit, they just got "airdropped" merit from when the merit system was implemented.
I would have expected a much higher number. Apparently there's less high ranking (inactive or spamming) members than I expected.
Can you also produce the numbers for Full Members?
I was caught a bit off guard by this number, as I didn't think there could be so many users that have not earned any merit.
Considering that less than 1% of all users has received Merit, the percentage of high ranking accounts is much higher. Of course, many of them had sMerit to share with their alt accounts too, which means "merit received" doesn't necessarily mean the merit was "earned".