I understand what you're saying. But I'm thinking that maybe not the difficulty of ranking up is the problem with all these account. It is possible that their lack of determination brought them in this situation. If these users would have been motivated to rank up and to help the forum and to help themselves too by learning from the forum, then those numbers may be bigger. It's hard to find a motivation though. Indeed, maybe for some the rank up criteria may look hard. But in case they don't even try to achieve the criteria, the criteria will never be filled. Besides, it's also possible that a substantial number of those which "gave up trying" were in part accounts created by entities similar to Vitor Services (just for spamming / farming purposes); they could be accounts of users which were interested only in earning money from the forum and seeing they can;t earn money so easy they decided to head to other horizons (such as CryptoTalk). I can't say for sure what percentage represents the two types I mentioned, but for sure some of them were in these cases. And they influenced the overall low numbers. For the rest of the users contributing to the low numbers shown by Ddmr I think, in part, are those which did not find a good motivation and, in part, those for which the rank up was indeed hard... But I certainly don;t believe that those numbers are so small only due to users which found ranking up to be too difficult.


Although what I'll write here won't change these low numbers, there is a chance to have more Legendary members. I'm not sure how Ddmr counted, but I think he counted those members by their actual rank. But some of them - let's say some of the Full Members - could have earned already the merits for being Hero but they're mentioned by Ddmr as Full Members because this is their actual rank. If this is the case, it means for sure that the real number of Hero will be bigger at some point in the future, when these Full Members with more than 500 merits will also meet the activity criterion for being Hero. And the same applies for other ranks. For example, there are 21 Sr. Members and 5 Heroes. From these, maybe a few earned already more than 1000 merits so for sure they'll be Legendary members when the activity will allow them. I'm not 100% sure if this is the case (Ddmr can correct me if I'm wrong).


Thank you so much, Rikafip! Much appreciated! It's been a nice journey to this point!