I just noticed there's an increase in users with many posts per week.

From all Hero Members with most posts, the 15 most active ones all have a Stake signature and 14 out of those 15 are old accounts with barely any earned Merit. If they would have had to start their accounts from scratch, 1 of them would be Jr. Member and 10 of them would have had a Member Rank.

From all the Legendary Members with most post (ignoring Chart Buddy), 13 out of the 20 most actives ones have a Stake signature. Again, most of them are old accounts, and if they'd have to rank up through the Merit system, 7 out of 13 would now only have a Member Rank.

Why is Stake still paying shitposters to spam massive amounts of posts on Bitcointalk? It's a rhetorical question, their campaign manager would have been Member Rank too if it didn't reach a higher Rank before the Merit system.