Theymos doesn't care about merits. He could be on the Top all the time if he wanted. But, He kept the system fair and let others compete. theymos is not much active on the forum (of course, he is active on the backend). He doesn't respond or post if he doesn't feel he should say something. I won't be surprised if theymos don't post anything for the next month and a half and El duderino_ reaches 10K merits before theymos. But, The chance is less than 5% because El duderino_ is not very active. He is busy observing No-Coiners.
@Theymos is one of those users that basically doesn't need to do anything to receive merits. If he makes a post just saying "hello" he is able to receive 50 mertis.
I'm not saying that he doesn't do anything and that he doesn't deserve the merits he receives. The work done in the backoffice is as or more important than making topics and posts. So all the best to him.
, let's see who gets 15k merit first. 
