Cool post and glad to be on this list as one of the users who earned those merits without abusing the system!
If you want you can link
this post as reference for mine personal information

As some already pointed out, would be nice to add a tag too immediately see those who earned the merits and those who clearly abused the system or bought the merits
Btw, nice work, i think this list should be linked in every post on this section of people complaining for the system and/or begging for merit!
Of course everyone knows that ranking-up is possible, just some effort is needed... but is easier to spam bs for useless bounty campaigns

Plus:
As one of the greatest italian members...just one month later, Piggy is already on the Legendary ranking-up pipeline with 911 merit

(just lacking activity)
(Same ranking-up pipeline for
arulbero (already 1054 merit, just lacking 4 activity points), even though he's one of the Hero Members that started with 1000 merit)
Congrats to Makkara too, another great italian member!