A quick read for you: MYTHBUSTERS: Only high ranked users are rewarded with merits

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 didn’t
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 let’s leave it - it’s not a point of my consideration today.

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Numbers! I love numbers! You count 22925 users who received at least 1 merit, nice. I count :

- 4% who received more or equal to 50 merit.
- 25% who received more or equal to 10 merit.
- 33% who received more or equal to 5 merit.
- 48% who received more or equal to 3 merit.
(all percentages are inclusive of ranks above them).

So basically, half the accounts that ever got merit, never got merited again. And the top 5% of people who got merited, are AT LEAST 50 times more likely than your average user to get merited.

Quick Edit : Also not to forget that these are 22k users who got merited at all. I wonder if we could get stats of Posts by Seniors Merited / Total Posts by Seniors, Full, Hero, Legendary. That oughtta be a fun sight.

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