Since month merit topic remain hottest one on this board. We still have three groups of users first one claims that merit system is great and everybody can get merit if he puts a bit of effort to his post, second one agrees that system is great but it is very hard to get one merit and third one criticizes whole system claiming that new users have no chance to get merit.
The second and third one have something in common they both think that merit is almost impossible to get for newbies because high ranked users exchange merits with each other and they are no likely to give any merits to low ranked/fresh users.

Few weeks ago, after getting my first merit I wrote my story (Short story about being merited.) to show that merit is really achievable, but Myth that only high ranked users are able to receive merit is still live on this board, so I though, that maybe numbers convince people.

There are plenty of merit analysis on metaboard but most of them are large and quite complicated, so they are intended for advanced users. So my intention is not to make another one similar to others, just shortly show that merits flows to everyone.

What is also important I limited my analysis only to merits which was earned after introducing merit system. Id like also to check if ranks achieved on old rules (users ranked before merit system was airdropped with number of merits equal to their rank) are important from the merits point of view.

Merit system works about 8,5 month, since introducing 251.653 merits was given for the post writing, they came to 22.547 users (from 2,400,000 users registered what is less than 1%!!!).

Below you can see how many users and number of merit was awarded in each group of users.

You can see that the largest group of users 56,47% who have ever earn merit are users who start their posting career after introducing new system what means newbies!!! Looking at numbers of merit the situation is the same this group have earned the largest part of merit (for posting).
Of course you always can say that many of them didnt get their merit in proper way bought them, begged for them etc. but it still remains the largest group.

How many merits users from every group earned and does rank achieved on the old rules has any meaning from the merits point of view?

The table above shows how many users from each group received merits in several ranges of earned amount. Absolute numbers shows that old rank doesnt affect very much (except old Legendary) on post quality confirmed by merits. Newbies - users who started their activity after introducing merit system are the most rewarded group in ranges 1 100 and 250 750 they are on the second place in ranges 101 250 and 1000+.

For sure, if we changed absolute numbers to the relatives compare the number of all users in each group to number of users who have ever received any merit this analysis would probably look little bit different higher ranks would show bigger percent users who has been merited I wrote about a bit about it earlier here:

Quote from: cryptovigi on October 04, 2018, 12:17:36 AM

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Rank	number of users	number of users received at least 1 merit	number of users with who didnt earn any merit
Member	27 918	4 744 (17%)	23 174 (83%)
Full Member	18 181	3 173 (17,45%)	15 008 (82,55%)
Sr. Member	9 016	1 818 (20,16%)	7 198 (79,84%)
Hero Member	4 143	1 105 (26,67%)	3 038 (73,33%)
Legendary	2 145	1 133 (52,82%)	1 012 (47,18%)

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But the difference is not as much so lets leave it - its not a point of my consideration today.

My main purpose was to show that merits dont go only to small group of ranked people and I think that looking stats above you agree THIS MYTH WAS BUSTED!!!

EDIT:
I've used data stored on https://albertoit.github.io/Merit-Explorer-SQL/ to make my calculations.
The data was downloaded at the beginning of October (maybe last days of September).