The list is heavily weighted to make merit much more valuable than it is
OG, the site doesn't rank you based on how many merit you have, but how many you have compared to others.
If merit is easy to get, it would be easy to get for everyone.
Excluding the merit that theymos gave to users for their previous contributions and scewing the results in favor of newer or lower ranked members and merit abusers. I’m well aware as we’ve discussed this privately. It’s your site though and if you want to reward merit abusers and penalize the early folks that established Bitcoin, that is 100% up to you. I was just explaining why The Pharmacist was self admittedly rated way higher than deserved.
I'm #40 on the bpip list. I soooo don't deserve to be ranked that high. There has got to be a flaw in Vod's algorithm or something.
EDIT: I should say that I am not calling The Pharmacist a merit abuser. Users who have legitimately obtained a substantial amount of merit are also benefactors of the ignoring of merit earned from prior forum participation.
The reason this matters is that users who were instrumental to Bitcoin like early developers and people who have been shunned from the community as it evolved are penalized by the way Recognition Rank is scored. Vod's argument is that newer users here don't recognize the early names. I don't believe this to be true.
Roger Ver has a Recognition Rank of >1000 &
Gavin Andresen has a Recognition Rank of 865, while
abhiseshakana has a Recognition Rank of 333. Which names do you recognize? What would the ranks be if the original merit were included in the algorithm?