Nice list and tool. Merit has definitely stalled the growth of member rankings in my opinion and has helped combat spam to some regard. Still I find myself a bit frustrated as I was one post away from becoming a Hero member when merit was introduced but instead given a merit requirement as if my account was new to the Sr Member rank.
I feel you, but you couldn't have been all that concerned about rank, given that your account was registered in June 2014. I'll keep an eye on your posts and if I have any spare sMerits to give, I'll keep you in mind. You're not a shitposter by any means, but I can see why your posts haven't earned a lot of merits so far, or at least why they'd get passed over and buried in the morass of garbage on the forum.
But hey, at least some members are ranking up. I think the process is probably a little bit too slow, which is why I think there should be more merit sources. That's a Theymos problem, unfortunately.
