According to Vod's BPIP database, there are 326,673
30k accounts who have recived merit is not such a small number if you take in account how many users are actively posting in forum.
I have taken time to do user activity research in depth here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5046264.msg46655791#msg46655791I analysed 2,37 Million users and used several criteria to evaluate user activity.
And one of them was, how many users have made a post in last 3 months. The result was: Including Newbies 137122 users, excluding newbies
31211This activity criteria is more relavent if we talk about recived merits since non posting users will not recive merit ( except some special cases with very old posts).
Is there any statistic showing the total number of members of a particular rank? For example how many newbs, juniors, members, full members etc there are? That would be interesting to see.
Take a look at the end of the this post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5046264.msg46655791#msg46655791I believe that this is the " freshest" user data with distrobution by rank.