LoyceV, as always you're a statistics machine and I always like looking at data like this--but in this particular case, the tag of "the future of bitcointalk" might be misleading.  There's no telling if any low-ranked, highly-merited member is going to stick around for the long term.  That might be especially true now that we're in the age of AI-generated blogs/articles/posts/etc., since if anyone gets caught for that, they're toast.

We've also had members like nullius (just off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are others) make a big splash while new then just disappear.  I'm probably making a useless argument here, but I'm just saying that having a lot of merits when you're relatively new here doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be an OG in a few years.

It would be interesting to revisit these members who've made it into this thread in about 5 years to see if they were indeed the future of the forum.  Don't know how long you're going to be updating this, but I think I'm going to bookmark it on the off chance I'm still here then and still interested in knowing the results.  See you in the future, Marty!!