For those to whom Rank is of any concern (many I figure), the game board is pretty open, and ranking-up is not that tough, but it does require some effort (and setting some time aside) which many are not prepared to do. Newbie and other lower ranked posts are read, just the same as any other rank’s posts, but content is the driver in general, and the better content will get more attention.

The forum does have 2.805.814 accounts (as of a moment ago), but don’t let that deceive people into thinking that this is an impossible realm, where only the crème de la crème rank-up. The number of accounts that are active is way less, and even smaller is the number of people that post on a regular basis.

You asked for the data: This is the number of people that have ranked-up on this forum, needing Merits to do so. Displayed rank is the current rank:


https://public.tableau.com/views/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/Ranked-up?:language=es&:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link

Looking at the above data, it’s seems that the mid to high ranks suffer a fair share more to rank-up.