I admit I haven't checked and googled yet, but:
Is there anything here for merits like we have for posts?
I mean, there's the patrol page for the new posts, but is there anything similar for new merits?
Like a merit patrol page?
It would be useful in the coming days, it the things in the above posts come true
Topic: Brace yourselves,massive number of brand new & newbie accounts waking up lately. - page 2. (Read 716 times)
May 12, 2019, 07:24:26 AM
May 12, 2019, 06:10:39 AM
I've seen a similar question before, that's why theymos added averages to seclog:
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493 users/day in the last month, 395 users/day in the last year.
Last month, it's just 25% more than the last year. 
May 12, 2019, 05:41:41 AM
Could it be some account farmers preparing for a spamfest now that Bitcoin Price looks a little good?
It is the most likely reason I think. Bitcointalk was a lot more active in the peak of the 2017 bubble. If we ever reach that height of price increases again, I expect Bitcointalk to get the same massive amounts of topics and replies back.
But yea, at least we now have the merit system. I think we're going to need a lot more admins/mods that can handle the reported posts though. Isn't Theymos planning on increasing the number of forum mods? That would help a lot to clean this forum in the next market boom.
May 12, 2019, 04:38:31 AM
Result of the perm-ban spree taking place this week. Most must be alt-accounts of those users.
It is one of reasons. Permanent bans and rises of bitcoin, together result in massive number of total woke-up accounts recent days. Permanent bans within recent days (more than 1 thousands) caused nearly same number of lower rank accounts created or woke up. Additionally, rises of bitcoin to suprass $7000 led to woke-up accounts of real users or bounty hunters or fudsters.Yesterday, 400 users got banned. The day before, 300 users got banned.
Before that, there were about 50 bans per day. I keep track because of my banned users list, and every morning I see the total number of new bans.
Since yesterday, there are much more topics in Meta asking why they are banned, including a Russian speaking DT1 member.
Before that, there were about 50 bans per day. I keep track because of my banned users list, and every morning I see the total number of new bans.
Since yesterday, there are much more topics in Meta asking why they are banned, including a Russian speaking DT1 member.
May 12, 2019, 04:28:18 AM
Result of the perm-ban spree taking place this week. Most must be alt-accounts of those users.
May 12, 2019, 04:25:11 AM
It is normal based on my past time series plot:
Or in my another topic: Time Series on monthly statistics of forum (new users, new topics, new posts)
ABSTRACT
(1) 50% of observed months have intra-month registered account range from 2311 to 27790 (the interquartile range);
(2) 50% of observed months have intra-month registered account above or below 10432 (the median);
(3) The intra-month registered account fell 91.6% from its all time high in 2017 at 238400 to 20046; whilst the bitcoin decreased nearly 83.9%.
(4) The demotion on Junior Members in September 2018 probably caused intra-month registered accounts fell considerbaly later months.
(5) The difference in means of before and after periods (cut-off timepoint is Sept. 2018) is -63.6%.
Time-series plot
< ... >
Statistics over years
In both medians and means, the year of 2018 has been the highest year with its median and mean of monthly registered accounts are 66895 and 64782, respectively.
- The median means that 50% of months in 2018 have total registered accounts above 66895 or below 66895.
- The interquartile range for 2018 is 38393 to 88373. It means 50% of months in 2018 have figures in range from 38393 to 88373.
I always use median and interquartile range for descriptive statistics because they automatically exclude effects of outliers data points.
(1) 50% of observed months have intra-month registered account range from 2311 to 27790 (the interquartile range);
(2) 50% of observed months have intra-month registered account above or below 10432 (the median);
(3) The intra-month registered account fell 91.6% from its all time high in 2017 at 238400 to 20046; whilst the bitcoin decreased nearly 83.9%.
(4) The demotion on Junior Members in September 2018 probably caused intra-month registered accounts fell considerbaly later months.
(5) The difference in means of before and after periods (cut-off timepoint is Sept. 2018) is -63.6%.
Time-series plot
Statistics over years
In both medians and means, the year of 2018 has been the highest year with its median and mean of monthly registered accounts are 66895 and 64782, respectively.
- The median means that 50% of months in 2018 have total registered accounts above 66895 or below 66895.
- The interquartile range for 2018 is 38393 to 88373. It means 50% of months in 2018 have figures in range from 38393 to 88373.
I always use median and interquartile range for descriptive statistics because they automatically exclude effects of outliers data points.
Code:
. tabstat regacc year10 year11 year12 year13 year14 year15 year16 year17 year18, ///
> s(n mean sd p50 p25 p75 min max) c(s)
variable | N mean sd p50 p25 p75 min max
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regacc | 112 22199.58 34773.29 10432 2310.5 27790 3 238433
year10 | 13 146 144.3185 148 22 204 5 384
year11 | 12 3795.583 3560.192 2469.5 1900 4419.5 938 14048
year12 | 12 2313.667 353.35 2151.5 2048.5 2636 1901 2958
year13 | 12 11433.42 8798.91 7399 5219 15989 3320 28776
year14 | 12 15041.42 8092.689 11552.5 8818 20299.5 7974 29839
year15 | 12 24992.25 19299.52 17514.5 9151 37009.5 7644 68601
year16 | 12 16553.67 9350.784 12505.5 10668.5 19635.5 9844 42233
year17 | 12 63804.75 67452.29 38296 17930.5 83022.5 13664 238433
year18 | 12 67431.75 34995.66 66895 38393 88373 20733 136872
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Or in my another topic: Time Series on monthly statistics of forum (new users, new topics, new posts)
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1) New members and new topics
A quick overview. It seems that monthly statistics on new members and new topics tend to hit peaks each two-year period.
2) New posts
2) New posts
May 12, 2019, 03:21:01 AM
Right, so everyone should be ready to report any suspicious account waking up and then shit posting the hell out of this community again. Obviously there could be merit abuse as well, because they need to rank up one way or another. If we can connect those cheaters, the better.
May 12, 2019, 03:08:37 AM
The continuous rise of the price of Bitcoin drove those dead accounts to wake up again. They will join in different bounty campaigns but they can't join if they can't get any merit so merit sending to different alts will happen too. New accounts = more bounty participants = more spam shit 
May 12, 2019, 03:08:00 AM
Most likely hunters are waking up since bitcoin price is going up. Or, may be some banned user using their alts and they would like to build their account again. Yes, as TheNewAnon135246 already said, we might experience merit abuse lately with newbie account.
However, I had noticed it but we can't do anything with it.
However, I had noticed it but we can't do anything with it.
May 12, 2019, 03:01:58 AM
Yes you may be right bitcoin prices are looking good and also altcoin are not doing poorly themselves and this would lead to the influx of ico right now majority of which are fake so bounty or ico farmers are gearing themselves up In the wake of a bull run.
May 12, 2019, 02:58:43 AM
They would need to rank up those accounts first. In that case we will see some unusual meriting soon.
May 12, 2019, 02:54:58 AM
Is it just me or the number of accounts waking up has been abnormal?
It seems to have been so rampant especially lately.
And If you look at Seclog, 99% of the accounts waking up and Brand New and Newbie.
A massive 12,369 accounts have woken up in the last 30 days at the time of this post(is that figure really normal?)
Could it be some account farmers preparing for a spamfest now that Bitcoin Price looks a little good?
It seems to have been so rampant especially lately.
And If you look at Seclog, 99% of the accounts waking up and Brand New and Newbie.
A massive 12,369 accounts have woken up in the last 30 days at the time of this post(is that figure really normal?)
Could it be some account farmers preparing for a spamfest now that Bitcoin Price looks a little good?
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