Quote from: Pmalek on December 11, 2018, 10:44:28 PM

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As @bananaunana indicates, @Coin-1s thread provides a list of the kind, but subject to some important considerations that need to be made in my opinion:

-   It does not take into account airdropped sMerit (because it is not currently available and cannot be calculated individually, even if the formula is known (*)).

-   Sent Merit Sources sMerits are subtracted, and therefore render a lower personal sMerit Available count than what Merits Sources have (that too is unavoidable).

-   People with a large amount of available sMerits are not necessarily hoarders (this consideration should depend on whether they award sMerits and in what ratio vs earned Merits).

-   The cases on the list with 0 sent sMerits are clearer cases, but looking over the profiles, there are likely multiple different reasons for not having sent any sMerits (Satoshi is not likely to come back to play around with sMerits; quite a few are high ranking members, who likely know about merits, but dont give a damn about earning/sending them around; some are inactive accounts; others are suspicious accounts of Merit abuse and have their own agenda; etc.).

Nevertheless (see re: [TOP-200] Members who have a lot of earned sMerits), the total amount of overall unspent earned sMerit is in the 37K area. A fair amount, but not that large really compared to the over 400K that theoretically remain unspent from the initial sMerit airdrop.That is an amount that is still kept (some on inactive accounts), and probably not expected to sum up to this amount nearly a year later. Ive often wondered if a forum originated email to these accounts, with a clear message, could stimulate them to hop on to the game.

Im not sure it @theymos will eventually release the initial sMerit per account as @hugeblack reminds us. I think it would be wiser to contact them from the forum (an email as I stated above), and come end of year one, remove the remainder airdropped sMerit in order to avoid mal-usage in the future. I mean, if after a year it is still unused, it would be better to figure out a solution to avoid risks and move it on to others that are playing the merit game (i.e. redistribute it proportionally amongst accounts that do participate in the game).

Likely there are forum members that still consider that sending sMerits deducts from their Merit account, and that could be part of the reasoning behind some of those 400k being kept still, but even if we listed them it would not change this fact (unless people started to harass them). Perhaps the forum originated email reminders could help there in clarifying.

(*) See re: Merit & new rank requirements and Initial sMerit for every rank?. Trying to calculate it is not feasible since we cannot backtrack the activity per member in a year prior to Merit System implementation.

Quote from: Upgate on December 12, 2018, 08:53:35 AM

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I think there is much less merit buzz lately in terms of number of merit related posts, likely proportional to the drop in posts in general. Specific childboard for these topics have been discussed in the past to some degree.