Since seeing Coin-1 thread about [TOP-200] Members who have a lot of earned sMerits I was interested to make a list of those members from that list who are active on the forum but have not sent a single merit to anyone.
I took into consideration members who have logged in and posted with their accounts since 1st November 2018. The list could have been longer since there were many members who have used their accounts in the months before November but I wanted it to be no longer than 3 months. There were also several members who are red tagged and I didn't take those into consideration either.

I checked every single account to make sure when the member was last active and his lasts posts. I then compared all the user accounts with bpip to make sure that none of them have been banned.

Based on all that here is the list of Top 200 Active Members who have earned most Merits but have sent 0 sMerits to other users. The list is based on the data provided by Coin-1 in the above mentioned thread.



Now to the 2nd part.
I am curious as to why these members have not sent a single merit to other users since the introduction of the merit system. They are active on the forum, reading and posting and have received 1000s of merits.

I can think of a couple of reasons:
1. They dont care about receiving/sending Merits at all and dont want to be part of it.
2. They dont understand how the Merit system works, thinking every time they send a merit, their count will decrease by one.
3. They cant find/dont think there is anything worth meriting.
4. They are afraid of sending Merits since there are many abuses and dont want to get on someone's radar.
  
And the list can go on for ever... I was even thinking of PMing the users from the list, but dont know what the official policy is about that. I am not a member of the administration and maybe it could be seen as PM spamming/harassing so I am not going to do that for now.