TOP-200 and chart on the
first page have been updated again.
I also published monthly statistics for April 2019.
In the previous month 296 members supported another 439 newbies.
There are some reasons, maybe people understood that they won't get anything good by abusing the system, eventually they might all with perma bans. Or maybe, their main accounts dried out of airdropped merits, so they are not able to abuse and help their newbies move up to Junior members one more wave.
You are probably right. Some high-ranked members who received airdropped sMerits on January 24, 2018, sent these merits to newbies after September 17, 2018. It seems that airdropped sMerits really dry out.