Of course it is, outliers are easily identified and culled from the dataset.
Looking at the data as a percentage rather than an absolute is a much better way to get an accurate picture of trends over a long period of time and the longer the trend line the more accurate that metric becomes.
The issue with sorting in absolute order is the fact that not all users are dealt an even amount of cards to begin with.
How's this, I've only included users who sent at least 10 sMerit:
In this list, JayJuanGee is at a respectable 2560
th place, slightly better (if there is such a thing) than theymos:
Also highlighting sources in that list would be meaningful as well.
I can't really do that: I don't have an exact list of Merit sources, and they've changed over the years.
I would have posted this in LoyceV's thread with the data but its locked.
This data dump topic is locked, but belongs to
this post in
How many banned users have you merited?. Discussion can happen
In that topic.
I've clarified this in the data dump topic now.