Dear Memrise, please investigate these profiles:
www.memrise.com/user
/SAINSBURYCLUBCARD (19 million points, 263 words)
/CerealBars [edit: now called 14sfoll] (129 million points, 294 words)
/William_of_Orange (168 million points, 4 words)
Thank you, greetings from Jasper
Hmmm. @Joshua delete them. And can you make an anti cheat system as SO many accounts are doing this…
There is also another account called meme_rise_420 with over 38 million points, but only 15 words learned on Japanese 1
Ive seen it… 
Aside from the fact that cheaters are not a good thing…
What do cheaters take away from honest memrisers?
Honest Memrisers spend countless hours trying to achieve that number 1 spot on the leaderboard. When cheaters do this. Their hard work from getting to 1st. All goes down the drain.
So I see…
It’s a question of seeing one’s name atop others… not really about learning.
Meh.
Kind of like: “My life sucks so seeing my name as the greatestest points-gatherer will make it un-suck”
Hence the rabidity in the tone when denouncing cheaters.
Gotcha.
Thank you for the tag Marshall.
Hey Jasper, their points have now been reset.
Hi Joshua. Thanks a lot! I’ve been here a few months and I love it. I hope you can find some way to automatically detect cheaters like MarshallLanguages said.
Hi SimonPerigny19. There is no rabidity in anyone’s tone, only righteous indignation. You yourself seem quite emotional defending the idea that cheaters should not be banned. Are you connected to these cheaters in any way?
Of course this site is about learning first. That’s a good reason to ban cheaters, who don’t care about learning at all. They are the ones who only care about ‘seeing one’s name as the greatest points gatherer’, while real users may or may not also care about that.
Even those who don’t care about points and competition will probably agree, that Memrise has a duty to ban cheaters as long as it features leaderboards and requires members to show their scores in public. I am happy to see that they perform it so quickly.
Righteous indignation? That’s what I might have mistook for rabidity. I often confuse righteously indignant preachers and mentally unstable people… or populist politicians, for that matter.
As to being connected to cheaters? I might suggest that:
1- Cheaters rarely express themselves on forums
2- A cheater would be really dumb to draw attention by commenting on a thread about cheaters
3- If I was connected to cheaters, you think I would have the score I have?
Now, if you reread my first comment on this thread, you’ll see: "
I think it clearly states what I think about cheaters. I am just not rabid (or righteously indignant) about them.
And if it might satisfy your… righteous indignation inclination… feel free to report me as a cheater 
Hi SimonPerigny19. Nobody here was rabid about anything. We just listed some obvious cheaters and asked Memrise to do something about them, which they did. Calling that ‘rabid’ makes it seem as if you think cheaters should not be banned (or have their points reset).
Whatever you confuse righteous indignation with, has nothing to do with what it is. It was merely the cause of our complaints, which were themselves written in a calm and rational manner.
My answers to your suggestions:
I’m not saying you’re a cheater. I’m just wondering why, if you say they are ‘not a good thing’, you are still indifferent to them, to the point (it appears) of being against doing something about the most obvious ones.
If you are a genuine learner who doesn’t care about points or competition at all, would you be in favor of removing all leaderboards from Memrise? I would definitely. But as long as they exist, there will be a kind of status, respect, honour, etc., given to those who have studied hard, and it is not fair for cheaters to have any part of that.