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I don't know how many did not earn even 1 merit because they are not in database I'm using.
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A few months ago, I carried out an analysis of exactly this issue: high ranked members without merits. Today, after a few months, her results are certainly not accurate, but I think that they give a good view of the whole situation.
I took this number than checked how many users has ranked up since July. To check it I took all users who has received any merit from
https://albertoit.github.io/Merit-Explorer-SQL/ than checked current merit number on the bitcointalk.com site. After deduction I got the number of airdropped merit to each user (who have received at least one merit). Then I checked once again on merit explorer number of merit given till July. Thanks to that I was able to correct mazdafunsuns result with rank promotions
by merit since July (there still be some inaccuracy because probably some users has been promoted since July by activity, unfortunately I have no way to check it...)
After comparing these results with given merit in merit explorer Ive received such set of data:
| Rank | number of users | number of users
received at least
1 merit
| number of users
with who didnt
earn any merit
|
| Member | 27 918 | 4 744 (17%) | 23 174 (83%) |
| Full Member | 18 181 | 3 173 (17,45%) | 15 008 (82,55%) |
| Sr. Member | 9 016 | 1 818 (20,16%) | 7 198 (79,84%) |
| Hero Member | 4 143 | 1 105 (26,67%) | 3 038 (73,33%) |
| Legendary | 2 145 | 1 133 (52,82%) | 1 012 (47,18%) |
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It looks like there are really plenty of high ranked users who hasn't earn even one merit yet. Probably some of them are "dead souls" - users who aren't active for many month or even years, but for sure there are as well a lot of "ranked" users who simply didn't deserved any merit yet. This number decreases (percentage) with the increase of rhe rank, but its level in all groups (maybe exept Legendary) remains high.
So guys look at these numbers and be little more lenient for newbies and jr. members as you see the rank not always it determines their value...Since you have used only merit database, you could not see the scale of the phenomenon of high-ranking users without merits. As you can see the results are much worse than you probably expected ...