I’ll keep it brief …

I make it 2003 forum members as of last Friday, considering those that have more earned merits than posts (I disregarded airdropped Merits):
List ordered by rank and then by Received Merits - Posts
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a4mmOKjFXDfsrOBP3HJRDFMYt_KcEpHeW21x73kcGF4/edit?usp=sharing

Note that, the lower we go down the list, the more cases of users that have not logged-in for quite a while, and likely some of the top lower ranks have deleted a bunch of their posts (thus figuring high within their rank).