What features would the next rank above Legendary come with? Signatures that make sound?

Even now heroes and legendaries have exactly the same rights, so legendary is just the "step beyond". If you add one more rank above that, it should at least come with something new, just like VIPs and donators have a board where only them and mods can start threads. Something in between..

I think that Legendary is enough, Elite badge sounds like over-rating.
I remembered that theymos rejected the idea. He only considered adding new badges for good reporters (last year), but by now, the type of badges has not added.

In fact, both intraday and intraweek merits decreased weeks later the Default Trust Change on 09/1/2019.
Intraday merits (before, and two-, three-weeks later the Default Trust change) presented via medians, and means.
Decreasing over time, right?
Someone said that the effects come from new added merit sources and re-allocation and re-distributional mechanism of airdropped sMerits to active merit sources, but I don't think that the assumption is right.
It's likely instant effects of both Default Trust change, new merit sources, and re-built mechanism on airdropped sMerits to merit sources.

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The instant effects look good because it has not come from abusements like we saw in September of 2018 with demotion of Junior Members who did not earn any merit.

Theymos recently removed a merit source and revoked some of the merit he sent.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=sources
122 merit sources in total, for now. However, total allocated merits to all merit sources remains the same as before.

I can barely post now, but I’m trying to keep the weekly updates going on Schedule.

The system used to revert the 104 sMerit (16 TXs) should work rather seamlessly, since the deletion has been implemented as a negative amount sMerit TX. The only thing to be wary of, in my case, will be the need to create a fake user with Id 0 and name ("Bitcointalk forum") or something like that. The fromUser will therefore not be able to link to a profile, since Id 0 does not really exists in the forum profiles.

Last Merit TX reversed I can recall were due to sMerit being sent in large quantities from a hacked account (3x50 sMerit TXs). Theymos reverted the TXs by deleting them altogether at the time (see re: Showing I merited 3 people 2 days ago but I never even visited those threads..).

The Japanese Merit Source case you mention rings a bell, but I can’t recall having looked specifically at such a case to check what I had to do to keep the information in accordance with whatever the outcome was. Perhaps I missed it.

The current approach seems better to me (TX + Counter TX).

The median of intra month merits (with the data contains 13 months, since Jan. 2018 to end of Jan. 2019) is 19597.
However, let's take a look at the fluctuations around the median, by looking at the interquartile range of intra-month merits.
The interquartile range found is 18047 to 23173. It means that 50 percent of 13 months observed have their total intra-month merits fluctuated in the range from 18047 to 23173 (including the median, at 19597, of course).
We tend to only focus on the mean, but the median is a better statistics for centralization, and the interquartile range (IQR) is important, too.
IQR help us to have a better overview on the distribution of what we observe.

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More details, please visit my topic and my newest intra-month merits analysis there:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/5069140.msg49685978#msg49685978

Update for the week:

Both median and mean of after period (cut-off day is 09/1/2019, the Default Trust Change) is higher than the before period.
However, those percent of changes decreased significantly from the first week later to five weeks later.
It seems that the assumption on effects of additional merit sources and re-allocation of sMerits to active merit sources have their impacts on merit circulation in the forum is wrong.
I tend to fall into the assumption that those sudden rise of merit circulation around 09/1/2019 due to abundant topics on Default Trust Change, that in turn caused more appearance of high quality posts.
More higher quality posts, more merit circulation within 1 or 2 weeks after the Default Trust Change. 


For more details, please visit original analyses with links above.