The top 200 merit earners lose around 80% of their merits if you subtract that which they have sent each other.
Some perhaps  even more if you just take away their top 10 merit fans.

So basically merit sources and their pals send each other lots of merit.

It's far more akin to pal points or let's give each other all the merit so we can dominate DT and thus the best rev streams and enforce double standards on everyone else.

If you want to ask some of these " top" .merit earners to present their very best original thought provoking posts that made any real lasting difference here on this forum get ready for a deafening silence from 90% of them.

Here have a try with

Thepharmacist. - an moron defending his merit swag bag who has never made an notable post or achieved anything here.
Lfcbitcoin- his first 3000 posts are mostly 1 liner speculative crap or sports betting.  Youd get banned for that now.
Tman ? - clearly retarded.


Well most of them really.

Also your principle only considers those that have earned 1 merit.
Making the merit distribution look more reasonable than it really is if you consider the forums membership or even prior active membership.

Also why worry about the distribution of a meaningless mess like merit at all.

The real genius members posting here have earned in some cases perhaps 20 merits total and you have complete imbeciles with 3000 earned. Lol

So from millions of members those giving merits  out, give them out mostly to each other and their pals or alts.
I'm sure that principle is evident somewhere. ....like the central banking system, big corps etc

The selfish self serving colluding scum principle let's call it    ... pareto doesn't do it justice.