Lol, what? Rikafip, by what data did you get this number of 1787 posts in the ru-locale for a month?
If you read my post carefully, you would notice that source of my data is @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard. Its literally the 2nd sentence of the post, right there at the top.
I am perfectly aware of the differences between numbers shown in Merit Dashboard and ninjastic.space and I talked about it before in this topic. Those two tools have 2 different ways to calculate post count; Merit Dashboard takes into account difference in post numbers, while ninjastic.space counts all posts written, and in total amount includes even posts that are not there anymore and were deleted, so that tool can also be misleading.
Hi rikafip, the number of Indonesian local board post recorded on the merit dashboard is less than that recorded on ninjastic.space. I would like to know which one is more accurate to display on the chart ?
If the data in the merit dashboard is more accurate than ninjastic.space then I'll update my thread with data that might appear to be in sync with your thread.
I had the same dilemma few months ago when I started using ninjastic space and I also noticed the difference in numbers compared to merit dashboard. Thing with ninjastic.space (that I didn't know but Ddmr Ddmr explained it to me) is that is also counting all those posts that were for some reason deleted from the board, and that's why number is usually inflated compared to numbers found in merit dashboard. For example, if you had some spammer who wrote 20 posts in Indonesian board during March, and his account got nuked and all posts deleted, his posts will still be counted even though they are not there anymore.
With that being said, numbers on merit dashboard can also be wrong in case that mod deletes/moves threads around, but I decided to stick to merit dashboard numbers in the end as it doesn't seem right to count spam posts that have been deleted for days or even weeks.
Now, as I mentioned that in my post (and many times before in this topic), post number shown in Merit Dashboard is heavily affected when there is some big clean up by local mods, like it was case in Russian board for the last couple of months. As seen in
Merit Dashboard, in the board called "Oбcyждeниe Bitcoin" there was negative difference of 3094 posts, meaning one of your mods probably deleted whole topics, that lead to this huge difference, and skewed numbers. And I even mentioned that in the post you quoted, as seen below
I must say that it is surprise to see Russian board with such a low numbers. I did notice that they had huge amount of posts deleted last month, so part of the reason for their low numbers is probably that
So, in the end neither Merit Dashboard and ninjastic.space are 100% correct, and some weird results will happen, but I decided to stick with the former when making those charts as I prefer occasional odd results due high amount of deleted posts over inflated numbers. To get clearer picture of board activity, best is to use both of them.
Joking of course, it was an honest mistake and it's been sorted already, thanks for letting me know. I see that Italian board keeps going strong, 0.63/0.58 is a great merit to post ratio!
