Topic: Beginners & Help – sMerit Distribution Summary - page 2. (Read 569 times)

As usual: great analysis.

I agree with bitmover, I like the Beginners and Help board very much, too. Over the last few months the quality increased a lot and that's a good thing for everyone who's searching for answers to his questions or to discover more interesting information about crypto.
Some Newbies may just come here and ask a single question in Beginners and Help but when they see there is some more interesting information around and other users willing to help them and share knowledge, the Newbies will possibly not ask only one question, they will stay here and visit the forum more frequently. Maybe they'll become a valuable Member of Bitcointalk.

And I'm sure it's also helping Bitcoin itself to have an open community to welcome Newbies. They will start researching more things and understand the advantages to have a strong Bitcoin and recommend BTC to other people. Something like that we can boost the number of people owning it what makes Bitcoin more decentralized.

Finally, the overall impression and reputation of Bitcointalk in the crypto space can be improved. If Bitcointalk has besides its historical posts of the early days a source of knowledge (especially for Newbies) it will be a place visited quite frequently.

And rewarding Merit for quality posts in Beginners and Help is always something beneficial to ensure a constant (or increasing) incoming of quality content here.

Nice analysis ddmr.
Beginners and help board is one of my favorites.

It's a board where even not bitcoin directly related topics are welcome, and everyone is free to post or ask different kinds of informations.

Certainly a place where new users can learn.


I really noticed this too. We have less topics  and more circulating merits.

Edit: Updated data as of 28/08/2020.

I've update the OP (after many months of not doing so), keeping a log of the changes:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200831122541/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5111933.msg49822661
https://web.archive.org/web/20200214090903/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5111933.msg49822661
https://web.archive.org/web/20190425164354/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5111933.0

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I thought it would be interesting to share some information related to how sMerit is distributed in the Beginners & Help board. It’s something I’ve done for other boards, and most of my findings I’ve either posted them on Meta or on my local board. Since Beginners & Help is a cornerstone in building this community, it seems fit to contextualize a relevant feature such as sMerit to this board.

a) Merit Distribution per month:


https://public.tableau.com/shared/95SF4FTDW?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link

The above shows the number of sMerits distributed here per month. 2019 followed a clear upward trend, and 2020 started-off with an ATH, never matched again.


b) TX distribution since 2020:


https://public.tableau.com/shared/6PN93P4MH?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link

Delimiting data now to just 2020, the image above shows us that 75,56% of sMerit awarding in the Beginners & Help board is done in transactions of 1 sMerit, and an additional 16,53% in transactions involving 2 sMerits.
In addition, 58,38% of the posts that do get merited are so by a single awarding transaction (1 person). An additional 18,27% of merited posts in the Beginners & Help are merited by 2 transactions (normally 2 people), and 6,91% of merited posts are merited by 3 transactions (normally 3 people).


c) Top Merit Senders, Receivers and threads 2020:


https://public.tableau.com/shared/GRBDD386H?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link

The above image, also delimited to 2020, shows a few interesting facts:

-   Meriter User Ranking show which forum members have awarded most sMerits on this board lately.
-   Merited User Ranking show which forum members have received most sMerits on this board recently (note that quite a few of the names correspond to mid to high level ranks which participate actively on the board).


d) Top Merited Posts & threads 2020:


https://public.tableau.com/shared/766GDXWY4?:display_count=y&:origin=viz_share_link

-   Top Merited Thread Ranking shows the threads that have received most sMerit (aggregate of sMerit on all component posts, but delimited to 2020 sMerits). It shows the number of sMerits received by the posts in the thread (Merit column), the number of distinct people that have sent sMerit to that thread (nFromUsers column) and the number of distinct people that have received sMerit in the thread (nToUsers column).

All in all, the above should be helpful in understanding a bit more how the Merit System applies on the Beginners & Help board.

Information source: Merit Dashboard