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> Sadly for you the fact is the top 0.02% of merit receivers cycle over 50% of their merit between them at this time.<
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I think the figure is really the top 2% of merit receivers. If Im right I calculated some data some weeks ago where I stated:
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>Ive continued scaling the Top X Merited for the following groups:
Top 200 -> 43,29% received merit from Top 200.
Top 500 -> 50,61% received merit from Top 500.
Top 1000 -> 56,62% received merit from Top 1000.
Top 5000 -> 69,44% received merit from Top 5000.<...>
The top 500 had an inner merit sending pattern of 50,61%. There are currently 25.008 merited forum members, so that makes the top 500 merited 2% of the total merited users. In my opinion, it is rather natural for the best posters to merit the other best posters quite often, whilst keeping an eye out for posts on any other rank or segment (most of those top 500 have merited many other people outside the top 500, just not in the same amounts or frequency which is also natural Id say).
BPIP seems to have me on its ignore list. Im right in between @LoyceV and @hilariousetc really