Quote from: isaac_clarke22 on Today at 11:24:12 AM

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.

Please see details in History of bitcointalk.org's rank system. What you mentioned is the demotion on old-era Junior members when enhanced merit system was kicked off.

More details on the evolution progress of merit system:

The merit system was fixed with some bugs
Adjustment on Hero members for their airdropped sMerits
Changes with the enhanced merit system.

Quote for important details

Quote from: theymos on April 20, 2018, 12:37:52 AM

The exact formula was:

Code:

yearActivity = activity in the last ~year, max 378
freeMerit = the merit (not sMerit) you started with
modifier =
0.1 if member
0.2 if full member
0.25 if sr member
0.35 if hero
0.4 if legendary

return (yearActivity/378) * modifier * freeMerit

So the most you could get is if you were a Legendary who maxed out your activity points in the last year, in which case you would get 1 * 0.4 * 1000 = 400 sMerit.

Note that I later made an adjustment giving 500 extra merit to some hero members, but no extra sMerit was given here.

I'll probably publish a dump of the initial sMerit at some point.

Quote from: theymos on January 27, 2018, 02:57:53 AM

I decided that the previous allocation was too unfair in this area, so everyone with activity >= 775 got 500 more merit if they didn't already have 1000 merit (and also Lutpin). No extra sMerit, though.