P.S. Some of those earned merits numbers are wrong, e.g. for my account, or for hilariousandco's.
Those figures in OP are ones I took from weekly data dump from theymos' raw data and loyce's club. They are not real-time figures.
P.P.S. Merit per post earned for posts made since the introduction of the merit system would be a better metric.
I will try to figure it out.
There are also several users with mod privileges on wallet software's child-boards:
ThomasV, Andreas Schildbach, Mike Hearn, goatpig, and Rassah
But they aren't treated like regular Staff members.
Thanks. I will look at them ASAP.