This post raised my curiosity, which is the reason for this thread.
Keep in mind that vas majority of legendary members became legendary before merit was introduced. And back then you only needed activity.
Nowadays its much harder to rank up due to merit requirements, and with good reason tbh
When I was a newbie, I was told that the majority of legendary members got their ranks before the merit system. I have become a legendary member and likewise many other persons, yet someone still believes that airdropped legendary members are still more than self-made legendary members.
Any data to compare both?
you can’t compare them with any measurement system that works.
2009 to 2013 no one knew btc would be of value.
so the importance of it was not knowable. now once Nov 2013 made price over 1000 usd the value of good posts became real.
second stage was gpu mining no one knew eths value in 2016 in fact it was mocked.
but if you followed my non-merited gpu threads for eth you would have made solid cash. I got zero merits for teaching people how to mine eth for at least 200 posts on what to do.
and no one knew the value of them for a while.
and ck and kano got zero merits for doing great work on mining software.