Criteria to get patnered on Metabbs!

Most members has contributed to METABBS community  and continue to do so through posting valuable content and engagement. My question goes to Admin....

The question is that what is the main criteria to achieve partnered status ?

Is it based on previous contributions or contributions after reset?

If the answer is contributions after retest then indeed 2 days is not enough to decide on who should be  partnered, meaning by default all members should still be assessed. (i.e. including those that are partnered)