Topic: [CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity - page 16. (Read 21788 times)

I wonder where he is. One would think it was a wonderful opportunity for him to tell us how useless bitcoin is and what a big scheme it is after the value fell from almost $30k down to $25k. Or when the Ordinals spam started clogging up the blockchain, causing hundreds of thousands of transactions to be unconfirmed. We have to wait some more for his return...

I am not sure I understood you correctly; does that mean you are actually manually counting posts in your local board that have been merited in order to get that percentage?

I guess it is doable if you are doing it for only one board, but there's no way in hell I would do it for 18 local boards. Thinking of it, I wouldn't even do it for my own local board lol.

That would definitely be a good idea to add, meaning I can get away from the calculator a bit when it comes to percentageing how many posts benefit in a given period.

Every once in a while we have a similar situation in our local board where inafmous troll and ban evader fxsurfer/antikvark/anthithesis (that is also known in the geenral part of the forum) comes to our local board and starts the same old bullshit story. Unfortunately some people can't resist answering his bullshit and he gets what he what trolls want the most and that is attention.


Unfortunately, all it takes are few members who will engage him.


Yes you are right, he is the 2nd while Ratimov was actually 3rd. I edited the post, thanks.

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@DdmrDdmr, @TryNinja, @LoyceV (or anyone else for that matter) is there a way to see percentage of merited posts during certain period on each (local) board?

The point is that he is someone who is very old on the forum, and knows where to move. Just create these alts to troll. Maybe you're bored and have nothing to do, or maybe you're upset with someone here on the forum and this was a way of showing your anger.

Anyway, in a very large community, it is normal from time to time for these people to appear. 

I guess his accounts are only active in the Russian local or possibly also in boards I don't visit because I don't remember ever seeing any posts of those accounts in the forums I frequent. He isn't even trying to hide the connection to his older accounts since he uses similar usernames as those that are already banned. I don't understand people like that who hate this place and its members, and keep going back only to remind everyone of those facts and tell them how much better they are.

By chance, I also noticed the somewhat unusual volume for a user who has been on the forum for 1 month.
I was not aware of these details. But, with this information, these numbers now make sense. In due time, these types of users will take appropriate actions.


Therefore, removing this strange case from the accounts, I congratulate @Smartprofit [308] who was very close to me. 

I had an extremely active and hectic holiday with lots of travelling around after which I feel like I need another vacation to rest so going back to my usual routine is actually relaxing compared to what I've been through last month or so.  


C'mon man, I beat you fair and square! DdmrDdmr updated his Merit Dashboard week ago which gave you a plenty of time to beat me but I would lie if I say hat beating ou doesn't give me any pleasure.  


Then we can expect your overview in no time!

@Rikafip you are really trying to compile this data every month. This is one the great encouragement of local participation. I really like your data analysis. As you said in last month presentation that Nigeria will challenge Russia board and from what you presented today, I have seen it clear. Nigeria took fourth position in the "posts per local board" and took second position in the active members. This is wow! And I know that for the merit sharing or giving we are not found but trying on our little ways. Rikafip thanks for the update.

I think you are the only one having more time to do this kind of stuff when not on holiday, rather than when on holiday!
Just admit the only thing that makes you get up in the morning is beating me every month on this!
I will publish my update soon, I just have to replace all the places where I wrote: “I will add the graph as soon as Rikafip stops slacking and sleeping and will finally publish his charts, presumably toward the very end of the month”. /j

Since summer vacation is (unfortunately) over, I have more time on my hands to release this month's overview (and beat fillippone ) for August 2023 so here it is. As in previous monthly overviews, all charts and table are made using @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space while images uploaded via joker_josue's TalkImg which he made specifically for bitcointalk use.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan and Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards but are included anyway with the hope that they get their own local board like Nigerian board did last year.

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Post activity per local board during August 2023

During above mentioned period 17919 posts were made across 18 local boards and communities which is a decent improvement compared to month before during which 15864 posts were written (that makes it 13% increase). With summer coming to an end and people usually spending more time infront of their PC I hope for even better numbers in the next overview.

As usual, Russian board is far ahead the others, going over 6k posts this month (up from 5298), followed by Turkish board that remained pretty much the same in the terms of activity (2131 in July, 2176 in August) and German that also remained pretty much the same (1584-1611). This month Nigerian board managed to reach 4th spot with 1438 posts which is their record (up from 1174) and I expect them to continue with their growth, while Portuguese board closes top 5 with 1427 posts (up from 1112).

Among the least active local boards we see pretty much the same name like in the last few months: Greek, Romanian and Polish. Greek and Romanian used to be way more active at the beginning of the year (both hovering around ~200 posts in January 2023) and I have no idea what hapepned there so their activity dropped so much. Maybe someone from their local boards can shed some light? Anyway, hopefully that's just a bad period and they eventually recover.

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Local Board post race

Animated local board post race chart, courtesy of bitmover.

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Number of active members per local board during August 2023

As number of posts increased, no surprise that the same thing happened with the number of active posts: from 1301 active member in July, we went up to 1403 in August. Increase seems small at first, but since these numbers don't change as much as some other (percentage wise), this is actually pretty significant increase.

Yet again by far the most active one was Russian with 428 members that wrote at least one post (drop from 444 active members in July), followed by Nigerian that had 135 active members (up from 121 in July) and Indonesian with 124 (up from 109 during July). Top 5 close German (120, down from 125) and Turkish (117, up from 93).

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Local board members per amount of posts during August 2023

When it comes to the percentage of members who wrote only 1 post in their board during above mentioned period, Greek is leader with 67%, followed Romanian (60%) and Indian (58%) local boards. At the same time, Pakistan has the lowest percebtage of those members (25%), followede by Turkish (26%) and Pilipinas (28%) local boards.

Regarding 2-9 posts bracked, Bangladesh is leader with 47%, followed by German (44%) and Indonesian (40%) local boards. Likewise, Croatian had the lowest percentage (15%) of such members, followed by Arabic (27%) and Portuguese (28%).

When it comes to 10+ posts bracket, Croatian board is leader with 55%, followed by Pakistan (43%) and Turkish (29%) local boards. At the same time, Greek local board had no members in that bracket al all, while Romanian had 10%, followed by Indian (14%) local board.

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Merit shared per local board during August 2023

During August, 8360 merit was shared across 18 local boards which is an increase compared to month before (July 2023) during which 7769 merits were shared. Increase doesn;t seem big, but I will take it as a good sign as it is a continuance of a trend so hopefully we continue in the same manner.

Once again, German board managed to reach the top of the chart with 1865 merits (incerase from July and 1841), followed very closely by Russian local that shared 1813 merit during above mentioned period while (up from 1512 in July),  Turkish board managed to regain their 3rd spot (1003 merit) from Indonesian (780, down from 1149 during July) local board While Italian closes top 5 with 512 merit shared (very similar to July and 512 merit).  

As in previous months, srandard names are at the bottom: Greek, Romanian and Polish, which makes sense as they are the least active ones (not counting several dead boards that are not included in this overview).

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Merit/Post ratio per local board for August 2023

Both number of posts and merit increased in a relatively similar amount so generally speaking there is no big difference in the matter of merit/post ratio compared to previous period (July 2023).

Once again German board had the highest merit/post ratio (and this unusual increase can be seen by the huge difference between their August and 12 month period number). followed by Spanish 9that is back to their suual ratio after last month lower number) and Arabic board, while Italian is not too far behind them and Indonesian closes top 5 this month.

While its no surprise that Greek board is at the bottom due their lack of activity, several very active boards should have high ratio (Pilipinas, Portuguese, Nigerian) could imho use few more merit sources.

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Merit senders and receivers per local board during August 2023

Nothing much to say about this chart other than it follows the amount of merit shared, in order to show which boards have more members active in merit system compared to their overall amount of shared merit. As usual, two names stick out: Pilipinas and Nigerian board whihc sould also indicate need for more merit sources.

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Merit per transaction across local boards during August 2023

Last in this series of chart (and ther latest addition) merit per transaction that gives a little bit more insight into local boards merit habits. Its no surprise to see that local boards with the highest merit/post ratio also (more or less)  have highest merit/tx ratio as well.

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The most active members per local board during August 2023

Last but not the least in this month's overview, top 10 active members for 18 local boards and communities hoping to get their own local board. After quite some time we have a new name at the top, tw0.625 from Russian local board who wrote 458 posts (I have to say that I hear about him for the first time), followed by the usual name at the top joker_josue who despite writing even more posts (311) than last month finsihed 2nd, while another member from Russian local Smartprofit ended up 3rd with also respectable 308 posts. Kudos guys, keep it up!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. tw0.625 [458]	|	1. Turbartuluk [162]	|	1. mandown [147]	|	1. Ale88 [88]	|	1. joker_josue [311]	|	1. DdmrDdmr [83]	|
2. Smartprofit [308]	|	2. bullrun2020bro [109]	|	2. totti67 [136]	|	2. babo [86]	|	2. darkv0rt3x [179]	|	2. famososMuertos [52]	|
3. Ratimov [249]	|	3. bct_ail [103]	|	3. Phoenix Anka [96]	|	3. fillippone [67]	|	3. Paredao [148]	|	3. Hispo [43]	|
4. Julien_Olynpic [196]	|	4. willi9974 [94]	|	4. Gencecikmen [95]	|	4. giammangiato [51]	|	4. TryNinja [117]	|	4. Porfirii [30]	|
5. jokers10 [195]	|	5. 1miau [84]	|	5. ZekiBeyy [88]	|	5. Lillominato89 [49]	|	5. bitmover [117]	|	5. Don Pedro Dinero [18]	|
6. klarki [173]	|	6. cygan [80]	|	6. kriminall [84]	|	6. bastisisca [39]	|	6. tg88 [107]	|	6. seoincorporation [18]	|
7. The0ldl_lser [150]	|	7. Lakai01 [77]	|	7. Dzigie [70]	|	7. Plutosky [26]	|	7. sabotag3x [103]	|	7. Artemis3 [17]	|
8. Snork1979 [147]	|	8. Buchi-88 [67]	|	8. Silence Scream [68]	|	8. conilmionome [17]	|	8. Disruptivas [85]	|	8. darxiaomi [16]	|
9. fruktik [120]	|	9. Real-Duke [61]	|	9. MK-74 [67]	|	9. duesoldi [17]	|	9. rdluffy [78]	|	9. Cuenta Alternativa [13]	|
10. bonfire66 [110]	|	10. sam00 [52]	|	10. SUPERSAIAN [60]	|	10. bitbollo [14]	|	10. Lucasgabd [48]	|	10. Drawesome [11]	|

Indonesian	|	French	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Nigerian	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	__________________________	|	_________________	|	_____________________	|	_____________________	|	_________________	|
1. Husna QA [65]	|	1. Danydee [40]	|	1. bhadz [90]	|	1. slackovic [47]	|	1. Charles-Tim [140]	|	1. Nalain420 [59]	|
2. masulum [53]	|	2. patrickus [31]	|	2. blockman [46]	|	2. Rikafip [39]	|	2. Sim_card [67]	|	2. Kavelj22 [53]	|
3. Sarah Azhari [50]	|	3. Melja [26]	|	3. chrisculanag [46]	|	3. cryptofrka [35]	|	3. Mate2237 [56]	|	3. yhiaali3 [41]	|
4. Chikito [48]	|	4. GrosWesh [25]	|	4. dothebeats [43]	|	4. Pmalek [23]	|	4. Agbe [55]	|	4. khaled0111 [27]	|
5. Luzin [40]	|	5. LeGaulois [25]	|	5. serjent05 [37]	|	5. BitGoba [22]	|	5. CryptoHeadlineNews [49]	|	5. Trawda [26]	|
6. mu_enrico [39]	|	6. Saint-loup [25]	|	6. bisdak40 [29]	|	6. Trofo [19]	|	6. Gozie51 [44]	|	6. Ulven [20]	|
7. blue Snow [33]	|	7. F2b [20]	|	7. abel1337 [27]	|	7. dkbit98 [18]	|	7. CryptSafe [41]	|	7. mikeywith [18]	|
8. komisariatku [31]	|	8. Joan of Arc official [18]	|	8. Fredomago [24]	|	8. casperBGD [14]	|	8. Wiwo [41]	|	8. GxSTxV [16]	|
9. zaim7413 [31]	|	9. iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2 [17]	|	9. Baofeng [22]	|	9. FatFork [13]	|	9. Nwada001 [36]	|	9. albon [9]	|
10. abhiseshakana [30]	|	10. Halab [10]	|	10. Botnake [21]	|	10. SirJohnVonSlotty [12]	|	10. sokani [33]	|	10. arabspaceship123 [5]	|

Polish	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Romanian	|	Pakistan*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Tytanowy Janusz [24]	|	1. Bitcoin Smith [40]	|	1. BlackHatCoiner [3]	|	1. GazetaBitcoin [13]	|	1. Faisal2202 [66]	|	1. Learn Bitcoin [46]	|
2. cygan [21]	|	2. elevates [26]	|	2. cryptosize [3]	|	2. NeuroticFish [4]	|	2. Gladitorcomeback [50]	|	2. DYING_S0UL [43]	|
3. wwzsocki [16]	|	3. pakhitheboss [25]	|	3. Coinakias777 [2]	|	3. Rizzrack [2]	|	3. UmerIdrees [46]	|	3. Bitcoin_people [27]	|
4. pawel7777 [10]	|	4. pawanjain [15]	|	4. MrCrypto72 [2]	|	4. UniJoin [2]	|	4. JunaidAzizi [39]	|	4. 2Pizza410000BTC [26]	|
5. Radek4921 [5]	|	5. Bureau [12]	|	5. perixit [2]	|	5. OldCat [1]	|	5. Hamza2424 [37]	|	5. Bd officer [24]	|
6. FantasticPangolin705 [3]	|	6. teosanru [7]	|	6. Adrisenod [1]	|	6. VKBIT [1]	|	6. Compromise me [36]	|	6. LDL [16]	|
7. Flangler1 [2]	|	7. cafter [6]	|	7. AntonisLak [1]	|	7. blacky90 [1]	|	7. ZAINmalik75 [29]	|	7. Lion02 [14]	|
8. Masturko [2]	|	8. avikz [5]	|	8. BITSAFECARD [1]	|	8. heikediler [1]	|	8. MusaPk [28]	|	8. Shishir99 [14]	|
9. YOUR_BALANCE [2]	|	9. Olimp2009 [4]	|	9. Ganxserrio [1]	|	9. im0rtel [1]	|	9. ThemePen [28]	|	9. Z_MBFM [14]	|
10. fillippone [2]	|	10. libert19 [4]	|	10. HmmMAA [1]	|	10. jeanpernos [1]	|	10. Cheema02 [23]	|	10. Little Mouse [13]	|

Just went back few months ago to being active here in the forum and glad to see that I am the most active in our local. Thanks for the stats and data rikafip. I hope that other of our countrymen will be also back and active again and support our local board.

  challenging Russian Board is possible but over taking them is not possible, they are just like the giant of all the local boards in the forum. They have more Merit Sources and they have a lot of active members. So they are always on top of the chart with a very large margin to others. When Nigeria board got her Merit Sources and Moderators then things will change to better. Even as that we can't compete with Russia.

An interesting chart, and expected in terms of local boards following forum in general. What's noticeable though is that local boards are more prone to sudden changes in the ratio which is kinda expected too as all you need is few local board merit sources being less active to mess up the ratio.


Tbh I expected to see Nigerian board climbing up the ladder once you got the local board because its obvious how many active members you have. Who knows, if you continue like that maybe one day you'll even challenge Russian board that has been by far the most active local board (at least since I started making these overviews 3 and a half years ago).


If its any consolation, majority of local boards have the same issues so you are not alone there, just compare the numbers from two years ago and from the latest overview.

Okay, and that means, it can be fixed once those active posters bounced back. And in most time those newbies, post things that are not relevant, posting odd things and the old ones to correct them making communication boring. Though,
With time they will understand the system and flow with you guys. As you are there things are under control.
Thank you very much for your recommendation. I appreciate.

We are having a few problems on the Italian board: we had a few “bad motnhs” and apparently we are not able to get back to our usual levels, as many active poster simply are now less active and the newcomers weren't able to get the flow going.

On the other hand the Nigerian board is doing really well. Kudos to your community!

This is awesome. Thank you @Rikafip great work. I was not thinking that Nigeria Local Board would take 5th post per local board, and "Active Members in each local board, Nigeria took 3rd with 121. And I know that night Nigerian local board can't come up with the merit stat, and was also surprised to see that we 6th position in it. And I also appreciate all the Active Members in each local board, keep the fire burning. @fillippone thank for your brief description of the graph you presented. And the gap Russian gave other boards is too big. I was thinking that Italy would pass Nigeria in the active members column but I was surprised to see that Nigeria see them. And they pass Nigeria in the merit stat and that means Nigerians in the forum are trying their best.

Thanks for your comments and nice words.

The problem with a cumulative approach is that there would be no race.

Russian would be forever first, Turkey second, etc, all would stay in the same positons all the time, and the race would be just among some small boards.

Now, with rolling amounts every month, any board can get to the top position at any time.

Thanks for sharing this race in your local board.

Nice work!
It is a fun animation to see, even if you have to squint your eyes to see the Italian board.
Usually, this kind of graph is used for "cumulative" events rather than "rolling amounts", like the monthly posts on a board, but the graph is good enough to catch a few trends.
Namely, the number of posts on the forum almost halved from the first months of the graph; this is not necessarily a bad thing, as maybe it is an effect of reduced spam activity, but definitely, something to keep an eye on.
The percentage of posts made on local boards to the total post is instead more or less stable, and this is a good sign!

It's normal... Many times winter in the southern hemisphere almost feels like summer, that we forget the differences.  

But, since I'm from Portugal, this summer... and a very hot summer!  
Fancy a cold beer? 🍺🍺🍺