If there is such a new rank, it should be a rank for oustanding guys, so I suggest this new rank requires 4000 merits at least, not 2000.
Lofty goal, but for the foreseeable future, will contain few users.
Right now there are only
five members above 2,000 merited.
Whatever/whenever new rank is implemented in
Epochtalk, I hope the
categorized activity above that new rank will decay over time. Break the forum into
x categories and allow a profile to only earn activity from one category at a time.