They only accept high ranking accounts, so if they spam they make themselves a target to get banned.
Thanks to the merit system they can't farm new accounts, so it will end eventually.
You made a point!
We have lots of members at Senior Member and above ranks whom can not be able to earn a single merit or more than 1 merit after more than one year the merit system born. Such kind of higher rank members currently struggled with their applications because they have to fight with new generation of self made members, then most of times they failed. Most of them will join those campaigns, because they won't be rejected. Let's see.
There are 1311 senior members with 1-9 merits earned since January 2018. There are 3076 senior members who have earned at least 1 merit. I don't know how many did not earn even 1 merit because they are not in database I'm using.
So answer to your question is: 43% senior members earned less than 10 merits out of all senior members who have earned at least 1 merit.
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%) |
....
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...