Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 11:13:06 AM

I see a lot of them, especially on my board. Why do they have 1000 merits? I guess that once the merit system was introduced, lots of users' merit score was set to 1000 by default, I just don't get why. Probably, because they had already a high rank and it would not be good if they suddenly get lower?

Theymos mentioned it in here:

Quote from: theymos on January 24, 2018, 11:00:11 PM

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Trivia:

For current members, your initial merit score is equal to the minimum required to your rank. Of that, a certain amount (less than the usual half) is spendable. The spendable amount was calculated based on your current rank and the number of activity points you earned in the last year. A Legendary member who hasn't posted in the last year would still be Legendary, but would not have any spendable merit.

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If I can recall correctly, Jr Members before required 0 merit but then it was updated to be at least 1 merit causing a lot of existing JR Members with no merits to be demoted to Newbie.