What's with the design tho? Seems like a BTC-thing. Most of the websites regarding BTC have horrible almost 90's design. This is a general remark btw, this price estimator is very functional and easy (not the programming but the use of it). Admirable. 
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Wow, that's really cool! Really cool project and fun to read even my own newbie stats. What's with the design tho? Seems like a BTC-thing. Most of the websites regarding BTC have horrible almost 90's design. This is a general remark btw, this price estimator is very functional and easy (not the programming but the use of it). Admirable.
What's with the design tho? Seems like a BTC-thing. Most of the websites regarding BTC have horrible almost 90's design. This is a general remark btw, this price estimator is very functional and easy (not the programming but the use of it). Admirable. hero member
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@achow101 you did a great project! The bitcointalk account estimator comes in handy when I want to check my potential activity,that's for sure. 
Also,it's great that it is open sourced.
Also,it's great that it is open sourced. Anyone got notice (Request Queuing failed. Please try again.) ?
For sure, I also got the same message saying (Request Queuing failed. Please try again.)
Any suggestions, guys anyone???
Thank you.
I am getting an error "Request Queuing failed. Please try again." every time I try
Fixed now.and what does member/merchant stand for ?
What "member"? Merchant means that some things will be hidden so that someone who is selling an account can link to the account stats without revealing the account itself.sorry I mean't normal/merchat
Anyone got notice (Request Queuing failed. Please try again.) ?
For sure, I also got the same message saying (Request Queuing failed. Please try again.)
Any suggestions, guys anyone???
Thank you.
I am getting an error "Request Queuing failed. Please try again." every time I try
Fixed now.and what does member/merchant stand for ?
What "member"? Merchant means that some things will be hidden so that someone who is selling an account can link to the account stats without revealing the account itself. 
Anyone got notice (Request Queuing failed. Please try again.) ?
For sure, I also got the same message saying (Request Queuing failed. Please try again.)
Any suggestions, guys anyone???
Thank you.
I am getting an error "Request Queuing failed. Please try again." every time I try
and what does member/merchant stand for ?
and what does member/merchant stand for ?
I remembered that once you removed account "price" from btctalk estimator and why do you add it again? To my mind previous action was better because buying/selling of btctalk account don't seems good action and trusted members hate that.
I never removed that part of the site. What I removed was displaying the "post quality" data.Also you said that price isn't depened on exchange rate but than isn't there any fixed rate?
The estimation is in BTC. It is a fixed rate per activity point plus a different rate per extra potential activity.
I do not understand why it is acually allowed here?
It takes the value out of the idea...
Amyway - its a nice site.
It takes the value out of the idea...
Amyway - its a nice site.
Interestingly the price of my account has gone up in the past couple of months by around 10 dollars.
This is despite the price of Bitcoin going up.
I agree its not a lot of cash, but I still dont understand the baseline for the estimate.
Where is the baseline price coming from?
The estimations the site makes are not in any way related to the exchange rate of Bitcoin. Read the OP for how the prices are calculated. It's based upon your account's activity number.This is despite the price of Bitcoin going up.
I agree its not a lot of cash, but I still dont understand the baseline for the estimate.
Where is the baseline price coming from?
Also you said that price isn't depened on exchange rate but than isn't there any fixed rate?
Interestingly the price of my account has gone up in the past couple of months by around 10 dollars.
This is despite the price of Bitcoin going up.
I agree its not a lot of cash, but I still dont understand the baseline for the estimate.
Where is the baseline price coming from?
The estimations the site makes are not in any way related to the exchange rate of Bitcoin. Read the OP for how the prices are calculated. It's based upon your account's activity number. This is despite the price of Bitcoin going up.
I agree its not a lot of cash, but I still dont understand the baseline for the estimate.
Where is the baseline price coming from?
Update #5: To avoid people from using the post quality quantifier here as proof that they have good post quality (because they usually don't and the quantifier is not accurate), I have removed it from the display and changed the character count to be higher.
Update #4: Website now has https and will force all users to use https. http will automatically be redirected to https.
Update #3: Website has new tokening system and fixed queuing system
Update #2: Website is up at http://www.bctalkaccountpricer.info/
Update #1: The code is now available to browse, fork, and download at https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkAccountPricer
Hello All,
Today I am announcing a project that I have been working on recently. This project is a price estimator for Bitcointalk Forum Accounts. The algorithm for determining prices is based on recent prices of accounts here.
The algorithm is as follow:
The code will be written in Java because I know Java the best. It will be open source and published on Github, but not yet as it is not completely finished. There will also be a website that has the java applet on the webpage for anyone to calculate the price of any Bitcointalk Account.
Please let me know what you guys think of this and if I should change the algorithm in any way.
Disclaimer: This project is not definitive nor an entirely accurate representation of an account's sell price. While I strive to be as accurate and close to current market prices as possible, actual prices may vary.
If this has been helpful to you or you would like to support this project, please donate to 16mT7jrpkjnJBD7a3TM2awyxHub58H6r6Z.
Edit: Algo adjustments
Update #4: Website now has https and will force all users to use https. http will automatically be redirected to https.
Update #3: Website has new tokening system and fixed queuing system
There is a new update to the project!!
I have released a new version on Github and also live on the website. This new version has improvements to the queue system so it doesn't fail as it used to.
There is now a tokening system for the queue. When you submit a lookup request you will receive a token. You can then leave the page and browse as you wish. You can return later and enter the token to see your results. The only caveat is that results are kept for only 24 hours after the request was submitted.
I have released a new version on Github and also live on the website. This new version has improvements to the queue system so it doesn't fail as it used to.
There is now a tokening system for the queue. When you submit a lookup request you will receive a token. You can then leave the page and browse as you wish. You can return later and enter the token to see your results. The only caveat is that results are kept for only 24 hours after the request was submitted.
Update #2: Website is up at http://www.bctalkaccountpricer.info/
My website is up and usable at http://www.bctalkaccountpricer.info/
The site is very simple, just enter the User ID and it will do everything for you. There is a queuing system in place to prevent the server from being IP banned by Bitcointalk. The site will let you know where you are in the queue and will automatically retrieve all of the information when it is your turn.
There are a few notable differences between the website version and the version on github:
If you find any bugs in the website, please contact me here or using the issue tracker on Github.
The site is very simple, just enter the User ID and it will do everything for you. There is a queuing system in place to prevent the server from being IP banned by Bitcointalk. The site will let you know where you are in the queue and will automatically retrieve all of the information when it is your turn.
There are a few notable differences between the website version and the version on github:
- Ads - The website has ads to help me support the site. I did not include the code for the ads in the github
- IP wait times - The website will require you to wait 5 minutes before it will let you submit another request. This is to prevent DoS attacks on the site. The Github contains the code for this, but it is commented out.
- Account bot password - In order for the website to work, an account is required to view the trust of members. The Github has a placeholder password THAT DOES NOT WORK while the website has the correct password.
If you find any bugs in the website, please contact me here or using the issue tracker on Github.
Update #1: The code is now available to browse, fork, and download at https://github.com/achow101/BitcointalkAccountPricer
Hello All,
Today I am announcing a project that I have been working on recently. This project is a price estimator for Bitcointalk Forum Accounts. The algorithm for determining prices is based on recent prices of accounts here.
The algorithm is as follow:
Code:
0.0002[btc]/activity
0.0001[btc]/epa (extra potential activity)
epa = potential activity - activity
bp (base price) = 0.0002 * activity + 0.0001 * epa
final price = bp * pqm * tm
pqm (post quality multiplier) determined by ratio of good posts (>100 characters excluding quoted text) to bad posts (<100 characters excluding quotes) (whitespace is trimmed)
excellent post quality (90%) = 1.025 (+2.5%)
good (80%) = 1.0125 (+1.25%)
fair (70%) = 1.00 (+0%)
poor (50%) = -1.05 (-5%)
very poor (<50%) = -1.1 (-10%)
tm (trust multiplier)
positive light green trust = 1.10 (+10%)
positive dark green trust = 1.20 (+20%)
neutral trust = 1.00 (+0%)
negative trust = -0.15 (-85%)
0.0001[btc]/epa (extra potential activity)
epa = potential activity - activity
bp (base price) = 0.0002 * activity + 0.0001 * epa
final price = bp * pqm * tm
pqm (post quality multiplier) determined by ratio of good posts (>100 characters excluding quoted text) to bad posts (<100 characters excluding quotes) (whitespace is trimmed)
excellent post quality (90%) = 1.025 (+2.5%)
good (80%) = 1.0125 (+1.25%)
fair (70%) = 1.00 (+0%)
poor (50%) = -1.05 (-5%)
very poor (<50%) = -1.1 (-10%)
tm (trust multiplier)
positive light green trust = 1.10 (+10%)
positive dark green trust = 1.20 (+20%)
neutral trust = 1.00 (+0%)
negative trust = -0.15 (-85%)
The code will be written in Java because I know Java the best. It will be open source and published on Github, but not yet as it is not completely finished. There will also be a website that has the java applet on the webpage for anyone to calculate the price of any Bitcointalk Account.
Please let me know what you guys think of this and if I should change the algorithm in any way.
Disclaimer: This project is not definitive nor an entirely accurate representation of an account's sell price. While I strive to be as accurate and close to current market prices as possible, actual prices may vary.
If this has been helpful to you or you would like to support this project, please donate to 16mT7jrpkjnJBD7a3TM2awyxHub58H6r6Z.
Edit: Algo adjustments
Good Idea! You can develop a marketplace where to be traded those digital assets!
Good luck!
Nice projoct, Hi OP, just want to know why in this site not shown post quality and count the characters? thanks and best regards.
As has been stated multiple times throughout the thread and in an edit to the OP itself, the "post quality" is not being shown because it is highly inaccurate and has been previously used by people as justification for their poor post quality.
Nice projoct, Hi OP, just want to know why in this site not shown post quality and count the characters? thanks and best regards.
Hero accounts usually go for 1 BTC, they are really valuable
That was the price of Hero Member account in the past when price was around $200 and as of now you can even get at 0.1 btc depending on the seller and now at this high price no one can afford to buy one hero member account for that high price of 1 btc.
Hero accounts usually go for 1 BTC, they are really valuable
I'm not sure about this, cuz after all this time being here I've never seen anyone who's selling a Hero Member account with the price of 1BTC. If indeed there used to be someone who sells with that price, it must be when the Bitcoin price is still low.
Hero Member account is indeed valuable, but with bad quality posts it could drop its price.
Hero accounts usually go for 1 BTC, they are really valuable
Anyone got notice (Request Queuing failed. Please try again.) ?
I just tried to use the site right now to see the potential of this account but it always says "invalid token". I tried more than 5 times and wait, whether normal and merchant radio button but still it shows me that error. I just want to ask if someone noticed this too or it just me.
EDIT: Oh it just worked out of the blue this time -_-
EDIT: Oh it just worked out of the blue this time -_-
What is the hosting plan that you are using to run your website?
I use an Amazon EC2 t2.micro instance to host the site and do all of the calculations.Is increasing the stats of the host will make things faster or that's totally up to the algorithm you are using?
Make what faster? The wait time for the stats to be generated? Unfortunately nothing can be done about that as that is actually dictated by bitcointalk. Bitcointalk restricts requests to 1 request per second, and because the site has to request all of a user's show posts pages, there are a lot of requests that need to be done, but only once per second. That is why there is a queue and a wait time, to keep under the rate limit.Well IIRC the limit is per IP so you could spin up several servers and let them do the requests in a distributed maner. I doubt anyone would want to pay for that premium feature though.
What is the hosting plan that you are using to run your website?
I use an Amazon EC2 t2.micro instance to host the site and do all of the calculations.Is increasing the stats of the host will make things faster or that's totally up to the algorithm you are using?
Make what faster? The wait time for the stats to be generated? Unfortunately nothing can be done about that as that is actually dictated by bitcointalk. Bitcointalk restricts requests to 1 request per second, and because the site has to request all of a user's show posts pages, there are a lot of requests that need to be done, but only once per second. That is why there is a queue and a wait time, to keep under the rate limit. Jump to: