You got me here, reviving this thread … I read it a couple of hour ago (still in the crack of dawn) and I didn’t check the date/time in the OP (nor on the answers). At first, I thought you were playing the irony card, alongside a show of (fake) ingenuity to lead others into some kind of plotted trap. As I kept on reading, it seemed pretty weird that people were playing along, and it wasn´t until I was half way through the thread that I spotted the dates …

On the note of Merit/Activity ratio, in order to be fair, it would need a delimited timeframe to cut out or reduce the effect produced by activity generated before the Merit System kicked-off.

Side note: It could be inconsequential but entertaining to have a thread on "Best Noob comments from when I was a Newbie" (i.e. <= Member). I will refrain though.