Topic: [CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity - page 40. (Read 18450 times)

I tried that, to no avail. Thinking if it, I talked to every single person I know IRL (that is into crypto) about bitcointalk and responses I got were from "bitcointalk is one big signature campaign circlejerk and echo chamber" (that's coming from veterans) to "what can I find on bitcointalk that I can't find someplace else" (mostly coming from new people). Neither is true, but that's how they perceive bitcointalk.



That's one of the advantages of big boards like Russian, German and Turkish; they are practically self-sufficient and members can find everything inside their own board. So even if they know English to some degree, majority of them will just rather stay there.

The occasional mention of Bitcointalk in Croatian forums about technology, IT, and stuff like that could maybe get some new people interested. 

I think it's a combination of both those things. It's the biggest local board with more active members than anywhere else. I just took a look at Rikafip's stats showing the members who were most active in the Russian local. Obviously we have all seen Ratimov around, but I have no idea who D-oN_ is (2nd on the list in terms of activity). Looking at the first 5 pages from his post history, all his posts were made in the Russian boards.

It's the same thing with the 3rd most active Russian - The0ldl_lser. Not a single post in English in the first 5 pages of his post history.
Azrieli has a few posts in English, but the majority of his writing also takes place in the local sub.

I bet there are many Russians who don't even speak English or write in the English boards, but they are very active on Bitcointalk and get plenty of merits in the local board alone.

Well, the Italian board is actually trying to catch up with yours ,so... we will have to increase the effort!



It's easy to notice that the Russian board has been the only one rallying changing after the last merit reshuffle: they have literally taken off! Not exactly sure what happened there, but for sure they were good at fully capitalizing on the change!


EDIT: @Ratimov has just posted a few details above.

Бoжe мoй! Maybe it's time for me to start learning Russian?
The language is similar to my native Croatian, and I already learned the Cyrillic alphabet as a kid.

Fun fact: As of August, the Russian board had distributed a total of 2850 merits, which is 741 more than the meta (2109), they are already at 1627 in September with 7 days to go I'm betting they have more merit sources than any other board, or the board is full of high-quality posters and generous givers.

Rikafip, I believe this will help more users to know more about merit distribution activities in local board including habits per tx. So far it seems to me that local Indonesian board only have two sources of merit "which still appear to be active" based on their merit history in the last 120 days. Husna QA and ETFbitcoin are very active on the local board as a source of merit, but because the number of merit per tx is too low, the merit distribution of both cant increase the number of merit to more than 300 per months on the local board Indonesian.

Here's the comparison. Maybe I should also suggest both to slightly increase the amount of merit per tx for the next month.  

Maybe we need to make some posters, stickers and advertisements for attracting young new ₿lood for local forum  

I don't think this is possible now, unless TryNinja adds this option for exclusion of deleted posts.

Fair enough. Based on my recent track record, I am too 


Merit wise, we are finally where we wanted to be and for the first time those that are mostly active in our board can't complain that it's hard to rank up.


Yep, that's the biggest issue we have at the moment. It's not a comfort, but I guess that similar situation is in the other local boards and forum in general so we are not an exception here. I tried to bring some people to bitcointalk, to no avail. And if recent Bitcoin rally to 60k+ didn't bring more people to bitcointalk, I don't now what will.

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That bolded part reminded me of something I wanted to add some time ago, and that is merit per transaction chart. Iirc I gave up because some low activity boards had numbers completely screwed up (e.g one transaction of 20 merits) that would mess up the chart. Anyway, I made it now and maybe I'll add it to my monthly overview.

Based on Ratimov's explanation, I agree that Ninjastic.space should give better results, though I wonder if there is a way to exclude deleted posts from the results.

I am happy to see that Indonesian local board are ranked 6th as the most active local board with the number of posts above 900 and it seems that the number of merit distributed has also increased slightly compared to the previous month. Actually I've seen it in the skarais thread since the beginning of the month specifically for the activities of local Indonesian board but this thread is a more complete version for all existing local board.

Although the number of merit senders and recipient in the Indonesian local board is not very large, I hope the number of merit distributed can increase or at least stay above 200 merit every month. Based on my observations so far about the distribution of merit in local Indonesian board, I can conclude that the number of quality posters there is rather limited, so that it seems that merit recipients and senders are only in that circle. It is difficult to get people to change and improve the quality of their posts and it will greatly affect the number of distribution merit. So the conclusion is if users focus on getting merit in local board then I'm sure they will take a little longer to rank up because the number of scattered merit is still less than 300 per month and most senders don't have the habit of sending more than 1 merit per tx.

I remain skeptical.

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It's nice to see those improved numbers in the Croatian local. Especially the stats about the number of merits per board and the merit/post ratio. The data shows that every second post is getting merited, which is pleasant. But I am wondering when we (the Croatian local) will get a decent new newbie who will start his journey on Bitcointalk and decide to stick around...

The long awaited brief overview of the local board activity is finally here, with the help of @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja ninjastic space.

Communities marked with * don't have their own local boards (yet).

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Post activity per local board during August 2021

After several months of absence due the way Merit Dashboard counts the post, Russian board is back on the charts. After some deliberatio I've decided to use ninjastic.space when it comes to Russian board (from the next month I will expand that to other boards as well) post count as by the looks of it there is a lot of things going on there, with topics being deleted/moved around month after month, constantly affecting the numbers. They will be slighly inflated as it will include deleted posts, but I guess we will have to live with it.

Regarding the activity of the other boards, there is no much change compared to July 2021 as top 10 stayed pretty much, with relatively similar numbers. Now when summer is behind us, hopefully numbers go up.

Communities without local board are still looking strong, with Pakistan board being the most active one, followed by Nigerian and are looking pretty good compared to those with local board, especially considering the constrictions of writing everything in one thread which definitely affects their numbers.

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Merit shared per local board during August 2021

Compared to July 2021, total amount of merit shared during August stayed approximately the same ( 6905 in July vs 6860 in August). No changes at the top; Russian board is far ahead the others, followed by Turkish, Italian and German.

I don't know what's happening with German board, but they used to be 2nd most merited board for a long time, often having around 1000 merit shared, but lately their numbers keep going down. Another "looser" during August was Portuguese board as their number of merit shared dropped by 50%, from 372 during July to only 187 in August which is low number for one of the most active local boards.

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Merit senders and receivers per local board during August 2021

One more chart that looks similar to previous one, with usual names at the top. It's good to see that both German and Portuguese boards are keeping their numbers relatively high, despite the decrease of merit shared.

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Merit/Post ratio per local board for June 2021

Once again blue colour dominates the chart (with a few exceptions) meaning majority of boards benefited from the recent increase in source merit. Let's hope it stayes the same in months to come so that red color keeps increasing as well.

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The most active members per local board during August 2021

For the end of this overview, list of top 10 most active members per local board. Kudos to them for keeping their boards alive and kicking!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	French	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
Ratimov [189]	|	mole0815 [136]	|	RaltcoinsB [274]	|	fillippone [148]	|	joker_josue [212]	|	patrickus [92]	|
D-oN_ [182]	|	cygan [117]	|	trendcoin [272]	|	Paolo.Demidov [112]	|	TryNinja [146]	|	Melja [86]	|
The0ldl_lser [172]	|	bct_ail [114]	|	ZekiBeyy [266]	|	bitbollo [84]	|	Paredao [112]	|	Saint-loup [73]	|
Azrieli [126]	|	bullrun2020bro [88]	|	MK-74 [252]	|	babo [79]	|	sabotag3x [110]	|	fastlight [46]	|
Snork1979 [115]	|	Soonandwaite [84]	|	verbakalim [249]	|	jack0m [75]	|	rdluffy [77]	|	elma [44]	|
klarki [108]	|	Unknown01 [84]	|	Ozkance [236]	|	Ale88 [70]	|	alegotardo [76]	|	Yaplatu [40]	|
AlexLvov [105]	|	Real-Duke [80]	|	kriminall [224]	|	gbianchi [69]	|	bitmover [75]	|	perl [38]	|
jokers10 [104]	|	willi9974 [77]	|	meser# [224]	|	duesoldi [59]	|	Lucasgabd [67]	|	Booster1888 [36]	|
safar1980 [100]	|	Buchi-88 [73]	|	ajanwalker [214]	|	alexrossi [57]	|	hiroshidw [58]	|	guigui371 [36]	|
Smartprofit [96]	|	-doubleU- [72]	|	Distraction [198]	|	acquafredda [52]	|	tg88 [56]	|	LeGaulois [29]	|

Spanish	|	Indonesian	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Polish	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
DdmrDdmr [123]	|	joniboini [76]	|	blockman [41]	|	slackovic [90]	|	Tytanowy Janusz [21]	|	khaled0111 [34]	|
famososMuertos [61]	|	DroomieChikito [61]	|	Text [38]	|	casperBGD [60]	|	wwzsocki [17]	|	Kavelj22 [26]	|
LUCKMCFLY [37]	|	MAAManda [54]	|	mirakal [38]	|	Trofo [56]	|	cygan [13]	|	yhiaali3 [24]	|
Porfirii [37]	|	blue Snow [45]	|	Peanutswar [30]	|	Daniel91 [53]	|	malevolent [12]	|	OmegaStarScream [16]	|
Hispo [31]	|	masulum [45]	|	peter0425 [30]	|	FatFork [40]	|	Rath_ [5]	|	Thanos01 [16]	|
Silberman [20]	|	Husna QA [44]	|	pilosopotasyo [27]	|	btcltcdigger [37]	|	Flangler [2]	|	sinner27 [16]	|
d5000 [10]	|	abhiseshakana [39]	|	iTradeChips [24]	|	Pmalek [25]	|	Hyde_BF [2]	|	Ulven [14]	|
Artemis3 [8]	|	Luzin [38]	|	arwin100 [23]	|	dkbit98 [25]	|	garlonicon [2]	|	abderrazak belkhir [9]	|
GoingIntoAction [7]	|	nurilham [33]	|	Eureka_07 [19]	|	cryptofrka [24]	|	tumis [2]	|	bert1587 [7]	|
womanderful [7]	|	Mukmin [32]	|	goinmerry [19]	|	CroBoy12 [18]	|	2girls1facemask [1]	|	@IceWolf [5]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Pakistan	|	Nigerian	|	Bangladesh	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
NeuroticFish [24]	|	Manish2809 [16]	|	chek2fire [9]	|	techearn17 [62]	|	Charles-Tim [41]	|	Review Master [12]	|
20kevin20 [23]	|	pakhitheboss [12]	|	cryptosize [3]	|	Sayeds56 [61]	|	igehhh [22]	|	Rahman11 [7]	|
GazetaBitcoin [22]	|	amishmanish [8]	|	BlackHatCoiner [2]	|	CryptoYar [33]	|	CryptopreneurBrainboss [14]	|	Little Mouse [5]	|
CarPatin [8]	|	Bitcoin Smith [7]	|	Dimitris [2]	|	Ronzybloch [29]	|	Mpamaegbu [14]	|	Malam90 [5]	|
Rizzrack [7]	|	airdata [7]	|	ownershipper [2]	|	UmerIdrees [23]	|	Nathrixxx [14]	|	Cornia [4]	|
teykio [6]	|	teosanru [7]	|	Bluto [1]	|	shahzadafzal [23]	|	Fivestar4everMVP [7]	|	Jontokhan65 [4]	|
t3b.e7Ps [5]	|	starbasecrypto [6]	|	CryptoIsMyMoney.COM [1]	|	5thFear [14]	|	Pokapoka124 [7]	|	BitCoinDream [3]	|
Madvill [3]	|	Lordshiva [5]	|	Ioannis82 [1]	|	cryptobadshah [12]	|	BIT-BENDER [6]	|	Dextrust_Defi [3]	|
PremiumPay [3]	|	erikalui [5]	|	JohnJohn18 [1]	|	ZAINmalik75 [9]	|	Coyster [4]	|	RIFAT001 [3]	|
Razvan_BTC [2]	|	pawanjain [5]	|	Xydea [1]	|	syedakhlaque [4]	|	CryptocurencyKing [3]	|	abdurrahman99 [3]	|

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Let's see if I can make next overview in time, without anyone reminding me.

I think you can skip this month’s chore, and updating directly next month.
Your Italian fans will manage to hold their breath for a couple of weeks!

Ahaaa, looks like you're late in doing it in the last 2 months mate. But this is actually not a problem because if we want to know more detailed data, the merit dashboard and ninjastic will be very helpful. I almost made it for you, but I'm a little hesitant because it might not be as complete as what you usually do. Lol

It looks very tiring, but maybe not if you enjoy it like a vacation.   

You are absolutely right, I am long overdue.

I started making those charts few weeks ago, but then I went on a couple of week-long trips that seriously affected my forum activity, including finishing those charts. With that being said, procrastinating/traveling time is over so this monthly overview should be out most likely tomorrow, Saturday the latest!

Bump / some (I will not point a finger) are late with updates 

Now I remembered that you sent me PM few weeks ago but I completely forgot to answer you, apologies for that!

Regarding the overview of your local thread, I don't think that I can help you much about that. Since @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard doesn't provide the same data for local boards and for communities without local boards (like your Nigerian topic) you can't really do something like @fillippone is doing for Italian board or me for Croatian board.

What you can do though is extract the data I am using, like amount of merit shared/post made in Nigerian thread, top posters etc and maybe maybe couple of charts to see progress of activity through months. Regarding charts tool, if you want some user friendly, you can use online chart tool (that's the one I used at the beginning) but I suggest you trying Google charts as it offers much more customization.

@Rikafip I sent you a PM, please can you draft it out for me? Thank you.

Thank you, I think it's a very good idea.
In fact, A few years ago in the Croatian part of the forum I started the topic where local members can report their quality posts and get merits.
A lot of the reported posts are in English so you can review them in person and possibly reward them with merit if you think those posts deserve it.
Topic is here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/zbirni-topic-za-davanje-merita-za-kvalitetne-postove-i-za-korisne-informacije-4265795
So far in the Croatian part of the forum we have had the problem that a lot of quality posts are not sufficiently rewarded with merits due to the lack of local merit sources and it has recently finally changed.

Despite being the 14th most active local board (thread actually), number of merit senders/receivers in July is pretty low which is a small number in compare with the number of posts/activity although I have to agree that number of high quality posts are low. However, sadly, we still have no merit source.