So this data will quickly bust the myth that merit is only earned by people who are part of the top merited list, the top 100 didn't even have a fifth of all the merits sent in the forum. Even though they technically earn half of the sMerits being given to them their is no hard evidence based in the data that they are only cycling it back to them, if that happens it will be larger than 17% of the total sMerits given in the forum.