There are obviously some differences between ranks in terms of received merit distribution, but nothing too extreme that would indicate that the higher ranks have an easy life getting merit. Forget the outlier cases you see around. The norm is another one, when you take into consideration forum wide data.
I love your website, I'm sending you my last sMerit because I spent my other 3 ironically.
One thing about the data you're presenting : It's a local comparison. In other words,
"71,69% newbie TXs out of all newbie TXs are of 1 sMerit each." and so on.. It's only natural that for each specific rank, the number of 1 Merit TXs are the majority out of all the transactions towards that specific rank. What I would like to know is :
Total number of 1 Merit Tx to Newbie merited posts / Total Number of 1 Merit Tx to all merited posts.
Total number of 1 Merit Tx to Member merited posts / Total Number of 1 Merit Tx to all merited posts.
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and so on varying by Merit and by Ranks.
That way we would be able to see the distribution of all Merit by post, taking into consideration the ranks of the users posting them.
On the other hand, it's funny how people feel so patriotic about spending their merit points.. 50% of Full member outgoing transactions were towards members and full members. Same 40% of all Legendary outgoing transactions were towards Legendary and Hero members.
This would be okay if the flat value of merits being exchanged here was the same, but it's clearly not as the flat value of sMerits of Legendary and Hero members is obviously much higher than that of lower ranks..