The OP shows that there are 28% (28 users) of top 100 merited users have worn their personal signature. Now, let's me show you more details.
In descending orders, 29% of them simply wear their personal text, 25% of them wear their self-advertised signature (for their services, topics); 14.3% of them wear their donation address and the same percentage for the forum's 10th anniversary; 7% of them wear their personal sites. The rest three categories with 3.6% (~ 1 user) for each, wear their personal image, third-party signature and signature ban.
What we can see from the result?
Among the top 100 merited users, only 1 user have worn the signature of third-party company (Bybit) but I don't know it is a paid signature or not (I guess not).
sigdetails | Freq. Percent Cum.
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10th anniversary | 4 14.29 14.29
donation address | 4 14.29 28.57
personal image | 1 3.57 32.14
personal sites | 2 7.14 39.29
personal text | 8 28.57 67.86
self-advertised signature | 7 25.00 92.86
signature ban | 1 3.57 96.43
third-party signature | 1 3.57 100.00
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Total | 28 100.00
Details:
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| username signature sigdetails median p25 p75 min max |
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2. | fillippone personal personal text 47 33 63 23 113 |
7. | micgoossens personal personal text 25 24 38 16 62 |
9. | VB1001 personal donation address 23 16 31 5 54 |
11. | theymos personal donation address 22 12 41 1 119 |
14. | loyvesmayfamilis personal signature ban 20 4 29 0 49 |
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15. | Veleor personal 10th anniversary 17 12 23 2 81 |
16. | achow101 personal donation address 17 10 29 1 60 |
26. | JayJuanGee personal donation address 13 7 16 3 57 |
29. | Carlton Banks personal personal text 12 10 18 7 60 |
30. | TheFuzzStone personal self-advertised signature 12 7 15 0 53 |
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32. | minerjones personal self-advertised signature 12 3 14 1 23 |
33. | Coding Enthusiast personal self-advertised signature 11 5 17 0 45 |
38. | chimk personal 10th anniversary 10 5 13 3 30 |
44. | xtraelv personal personal text 9 3 18 0 47 |
45. | Goran_ personal third-party signature 9 5 10 0 21 |
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51. | philipma1957 personal personal text 8 5 12 2 26 |
52. | jojo69 personal personal text 8 4 10 1 18 |
57. | Last of the V8s personal personal image 7 1 25 0 43 |
58. | krogothmanhattan personal self-advertised signature 7 3 10 0 28 |
60. | Jet Cash personal personal sites 6 3 9 0 16 |
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78. | Quickseller personal personal text 3 0 8 0 18 |
81. | qwk personal personal text 2 1 5 0 10 |
82. | Vod personal personal sites 2 1 4 0 14 |
85. | Alex_Sr personal 10th anniversary 2 0 7 0 18 |
87. | OgNasty personal self-advertised signature 2 1 3 0 7 |
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96. | theyoungmillionaire personal 10th anniversary 1 0 4 0 25 |
99. | nullius personal self-advertised signature 0 0 0 0 3 |
100. | ICOEthics personal self-advertised signature 0 0 1 0 8 |
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* @loyvesmayfamilis: has a signature ban that has not yet expired.
Good attitude changes our lives (I should limit to my life but I think it is right for all). In January of 2018, I did not believe that I can rank up to the Full Member rank but today looking back I have been a Hero member and I definitely know I will rank up to the Legendary rank (just a matter of time, merit requirement does not a matter with me). Now, my targets naturally raise higher. I want to participate in the ChipMixer campaign.
In a summary, for newbies, I would say:
Good attitude --- Knowledge increases --- Good posts --- More merits --- Higher ranks --- Higher income (from signature, that is a privilege, not a rights) --- Top ranks --- Top signature campaigns --- Higher reputation.
Merits --- Ranks --- Income: It is a very interesting cycle.