Topic: [CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity - page 50. (Read 21078 times)

As always, new month means new overview of the local boards activity, this time for the month of December 2020.

Like in all previous overviews, data was taken from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard which I suggest you check if you want more in depth overview of your own local board. For the overview of most  active users per local board during 2020, I used another great tool, @TryNinja ninjastic.space. I wholeheartedly suggest you check that one too, if you haven't already.

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Post activity per local board during December 2020

Once again Turkish local board has been the most active one, so last month wasn't just an exception, followed by Russian and German local boards. From what I could see, main reason why Russian board is not dominantly at the top like in all those previous months is due significant decrease in Russian altcoin section activity.

Majority of other local boards are keeping decent activity, but it is worth to mention that some of the numbers might be misleading due big amount of moved/deleted posts across several local boards, so they might appear less active than they actually were.

To be honest, I expected local boards to be even more active than in previous months due bull market, but I guess effects still haven't kicked in fully.

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Merit shared per local board during December 2020

Once again there is a change at the top, German board having one of the best months since I am making these overviews, followed closely by Russian local board, with Turkish and Italian ranked 3rd and 4th. It's also nice to see two communities without local board  (Bangladesh and Pakistan) having decent merit activity considering total lack (AFAIK) of merit sources that are active in their thread.

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Merit senders/receivers per local board during November 2020

Pretty straightforward chart in which more merit shared usually means more members involved, with a few standard exceptions.

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Merit/Post ratio per local board during December 2020

Due high amount of deleted/moved posts in various boards which would affect this chart a lot, I decided to make an exception this month and beside monthly merit/post ratio to include ratio in the last 12 months, to give somewhat clearer picture of the situation.

Several boards lack either December or 12 months merit/post ratio, and that is due negative post count during last month or due lack of data for previous months. One exception here is Romanian board which would have more than 11 merit/post ratio during December due many deleted posts which would completely mess up this chart so I decided to exclude their monthly data and share only 12 months value.

As always, please don't read too much into this chart as it can be misleading, including 12 months values.

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The most active members during 2020 per local board

So far in all these overviews I never mentioned the members that are keeping their local boards alive and active, but since it's a new year I decided to make an exception and mention the most active members in each local board. Due obvious reasons I can't mention each and every member that was active in local board, so I narrowed it down to ten most active ones, including their post count. I've decided to exclude few dead boards like Hebrew and Skandinavsk from this list.

Russian

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Turkish

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German

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Pilipinas

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French

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Indonesian

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Italian

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Ratimov 3114

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mandown 3034

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mole0815 2688

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Vaculin 579

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Saint-loup 2049

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joniboini 1306

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fillippone 1453

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taikuri13 2530

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gospodin 3024

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bct_ail 1569

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Bttzed03 422

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Yaplatu 1774

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abhiseshakana 1043

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babo 1019

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Snork1979 2358

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RaltcoinsB 2316

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1miau 1431

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Theb 408

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asche 1718

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Husna QA 883

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duesoldi 783

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Julien_Olynpic 1603

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lossnet 2127

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Buchi-88 1374

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peter0425 394

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patrickus 1083

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DroomieChikito 532

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MarioV 703

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Bits.media 1409

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trendcoin 2118

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cygan 1343

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cabalism13 389

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Danydee 905

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masulum 444

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Paolo.Demidov 672

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delfastTions 1217

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chemist35 1931

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Soonandwaite 1338

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bisdak40 346

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elma 756

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roycilik 346

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bitbollo 444

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Goran_ 1190

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muslol67 1784

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bullrun2020bro 1246

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mk4 329

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guigui371 740

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blue Snow 335

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Plutosky 410

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fzkto 1149

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Bthd 1209

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Lakai01 1182

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blockman 310

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GrosWesh 559

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Javi_Anibarro 308

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alexrossi 314

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kassex 1140

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wolwoo 1206

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Koal-84 945

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plvbob0070 284

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oscar2000 558

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kawetsriyanto 207

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bitcoin-shark 307

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Alex077 1008

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kriminall 1199

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willi9974 929

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john1010 282

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LeGaulois 553

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reza7777 171

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icio 292

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Portuguese

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Croatian

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Spanish

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Arabic

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Indian

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Polish

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Greek

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TryNinja 1334

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slackovic 1618

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DdmrDdmr 1208

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mikeywith 601

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akram143 444

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BitHub.pl 351

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chek2fire 212

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sabotag3x 979

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casperBGD 984

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LUCKMCFLY 531

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Ulven 416

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allahabadi 128

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wwzsocki 291

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Fcoiner 124

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Paredao 894

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btcltcdigger 804

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famososMuertos 453

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yhiaali3 340

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pawanjain 115

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adamvp 178

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BlackHatCoiner 98

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rdluffy 697

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cryptofrka 790

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VB1001 425

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Ya3rob 287

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reliable 115

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Tytanowy Janusz 176

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bomberb17 39

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tg88 609

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Trofo 761

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Csmiami 320

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khaled0111 252

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webtricks 103

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malevolent 175

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efialtis 34

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bitmover 588

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Daniel91 710

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Bitzlato 291

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OmegaStarScream 247

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amishmanish 94

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cygan 122

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feisar 33

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alegotardo 577

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dkbit98 691

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seoincorporation 251

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0x256 151

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Heisenberg_Hunter 93

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Flangler 62

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bmxakias 31

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Lucasgabd 541

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big_daddy 688

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Artemis3 225

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SyGambler 148

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pakhitheboss 69

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BitBay* 52

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Dimitris 30

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cryptobaboon 528

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-CryptoViking- 393

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FullNode 217

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hugeblack 143

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erikalui 66

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tokeneonews 47

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trumpman 24

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gagux123 380

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Rikafip 389

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Porfirii 217

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daneal stev 139

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libert19 57

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unrealandy 46

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Mixalis 18

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Romanian	|	Korean	|	Dutch	|	Japanese	|
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GazetaBitcoin 312	|	BetHash 60	|	DutchFinity 156	|	sie1104 89	|
20kevin20 154	|	Crypto Korea 56	|	Arrrvin 150	|	chiyuringo 81	|
NeuroticFish 82	|	orbitsvdsVDS 35	|	friends1980 94	|	karz01 65	|
IonCreanga 45	|	ozidavici 17	|	sbogovac 47	|	BITVALU 64	|
3dOOm 38	|	fllawer 15	|	El duderino_ 22	|	okuribitkun. 53	|
dbs00 31	|	kuki09 12	|	JorisK 22	|	Axel-Spanish 50	|
Rizzrack 28	|	tecracoin 12	|	M-BTC 16	|	waienu 37	|
Valentin20 20	|	NRikonen 11	|	masbypete 15	|	crypto-samurai77 35	|
fillippone 18	|	feifei777888 11	|	peterspijzer 15	|	AMANPURI 33	|
Vlad.Sas 17	|	HankMobley 10	|	Iced 13	|	Casinoin 33	|

This overview doesn't go in depth and honestly I don't even want to. And even if I wanted to, I am not an expert in the matter. I just wanted to share  few basic info regarding each local board and put it in some easily understandable chart, hence the word "brief" in the title. If I really go in depth I think that people would loose all interest for it (assuming that there is some interest for this kind of approach), and if they want to check it a  little bit more thorough, they can always use Merit Dashboard.


True, merit shared and merit ratio doesn't give clear picture of local board quality. In the end, only those that speak the language and are active there can know that. But to try to give a little bit more info how merit is spread and how many people are part of merit system, I started making that merit senders/receivers chart. That one also shouldn't be taken too seriously either, but it does show some stuff. For example, it's obvious that merit shared is very decentralized in Pilipinas board.

No problem, a minor suggestion as said initially. I know it also depends on personal style or favorite. Move on.

I know of the effect from sample size (this case, total posts) and your chart shows an overview only and without other factors, your chart can disclose something accurately or does not make any sense because biases from non-inclusive factors.

Factors can be:

• Percent of extremely helpful posts per shit posts. If the percentage is high, the total earned merits can be biased
• Percent of merited posts per total posts. If most of posts received merit, shit happens. You don't have it in your analyses, feel free to take my idea for your next updates.
• Maybe other things, just a sneak peek.

Example: A local topic received 100 merits in a specific month but OP receive 80 or 90 merits and total posts in one month is 100. It means 80-90% of earned merit centralized in OP, and most of the 99 rest posts are mostly shit posts.

Just a likelihood if look at raw statistics. "Garbage in, garbage out" so to have good data interpretation, must have good data inputs and good variable definitions.

Usually I set the width at 800, but for this one I made a mistake and set it at 900, and now it's back to the old value, thanks for pointing that out. I don't want to decrease it further though as due chart orientation it won't make a huge difference even if I decrease it further 30 %, it will just make it less readable. And to be honest, I quite like it how it looks at the moment


I guess you are referring to Nigerian topic? Yeah that ratio can vary a lot on those boards with low post count. One very good post with a lot of merit received and ratio gets inflated. Then again some other local boards ratio is decreasing constantly.

Minor suggestion, @Rikafip:

Would you mind use width option inside the img brackets to make smaller images visually, please. It takes me for a while to scroll the mouse from top to bottom of one page.

I see a sudden pump of merit per post ratio from 0.07 to 0.53. Your charts only confirm my findings

November is behind us so it's time for yet another overview of the local boards.

Data used for making these charts was taken from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard which you should check if you want more detailed look at your local board.

Communities marked with * don't have their own local board and are located in Other languages/locations.

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Post activity per local board during November 2020

Big surprise on this chart, Turkish local board was the most active one, ahead of Russian and German. This is the 2nd time since I am making this overview that Russian didn't ed up at the top. While first time it was due high amount of deleted posts, according to data available that's not the reason for huge decrease compared to previous month when Russian board had more than 18,000 posts (they did have big decrease in altcoin section). Beside Turkish, few other big boards like German, French and Portuguese experienced big increase in the activity, which is not a surprise considering the current market situation. Hopefully this trend will continue in upcoming months.

Out of four communities without local board, Bangladesh is consistently for months the most active one and stands quite good even when compared with the ones with local board, and Pakistan ain't bad either. Who knows, if they keep being active and keep topic clean from spam, maybe they get their own local board one day.

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Merit shared per local board during November 2020

No big surprises there, majority of active boards shared relatively similar amount of merit like they did during October and they even kept very similar ranking like during the last period.

Indonesian board keep getting merit amount decreased month after month, while the one that had biggest drop percentage wise was Bangladesh, with only 4 merits shared during whole November which is a pretty low considering more than 300 posts written. Afaik, they do have merit application pending (same as few other local boards without merit source) so hopefully that gets sorted eventually.

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Merit senders/receivers per local board during November 2020

As expected, this chart pretty much follows the amount of merit shared, with a few standard exceptions like Pilipinas board, whihc has very high amount of members that are part of merit system, considering the amount of merit shared. Four communities without local board are missing from this chart as I didn't have exact data.

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Merit/Post ratio per local board during November 2020

All standard boards are pretty much at the top half of the chart, with Russian board being unusually high due much lower post count compared to previous months while keeping similar amount of shared merit, therefore boosting the ratio, and few big one like German and French had decreased ratio due significant increase (approximately 50% ) in pots count.

Just to add once again that these numbers can vary a lot from month to month, especially on the boards with lower post count so they can easily end up very high, like Dutch, Nigerian and Romanian did on this chart.

Oh, of course all of this will be of great use to me. Thank you for allowing me. I hope from now on I can update it every month.

Of course you can use all the charts on this topic. After all, that's one of the reasons I started this, so members from other local boards can also share some of the stuff, if they find it interesting/useful. Beside these chart that I made, you can complement your topic with various data that you can find in @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard. Here are few examples:

• List of all those that shared and received merit in Indonesian local board. You can set the time frame you want to see.
• Most merited threads and posts.
• More in depth look at Indonesian board post activity

A few days ago, I found some user on the Indonesian local board asking about decreased posting activity on the local board on a thread I created. So I want to get permission from the OP to take some data related to the distribution of post made on local board and update it in my thread without losing the source. If allowed, I'd like to get data from January 2020 to October 2020. Waiting for approval.

My bad, I assumed you meant only the number of Merited posts per thread.

Yep, that’s precisely the set of information I do have (cumulative of Merit.txt since file generation genesis), and used it to derive above the Merit per thread that @Rikafip required for given timeframes. I was really referring to post counts though, which is the second component to derive the merit/post ratio. Post counts per thread I do not track.

After application of BitcoinDream for merit source, a lot of people shared merits in our local and thus the circulation got increased which have direct affect in October too. Almost all the merits are being circulated which seems good.
After that, I have to agree that quality of our local board have been changed although not outstanding but I'm satisfied enough with the change. It now looks like among all the local in other language, Bangladeshi local is the most active board.

That should be easy to get from all Merit data. I don't have data per board, but it's easy per thread.

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed!


No worries about post count part, I can do that manually , and then calculate the ratio. You helped with the trickiest part.


True, that's why I usually mention that ratio can be very misleading and can vary greatly from month to month. Even boards with high activity can be affected with that, as seen from all those previous months charts.

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I updated October charts with 4 communities without local boards: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Serbian and Nigerian (they are marked with *). Charts updated are Post, Merit and Merit/Post for now. 4th one, chart of Merit senders/receivers is a bit tricky to get without external assistance, so I've decided to skip that one for now, but might add that in the future.

Regarding communities added, those seemed like a most active ones  and I didn't want to clutter the charts with all communities as some of them have only few posts per month, and sometimes not even that. Someone may argue why some of the local boards are there despite having similar scenario (Hebrew, Japanese. Skandinavsk etc) but my first goal was to make  overview of local boards, and those are local boards.

I had to cleanse some data in order to obtain some of the required information (only in relation to pinned threads):

This should be the Merit score for those pinned threads. I’ve provided the historical total, and that of the last 3 months.
Entries not on the list have not received any merits.

I do not have the post count though, to derive the merit/post. Normally I archieve the data pages I need at regular intervals, manually tabulate the data, and set the difference as the Net number of posts created in a month. Nevertheless, I’m not tracking post count at thread level, so you’d either need to do in manually (which shouldn’t take too long), or see if someone is willing to perform regular scrapes/counts.

If the Post count is low for those threads, the Merit/post ratio will be a "weak" indicator really.

Yeah that makes sense, to use English that most people understand anyway, otherwise it would be complete mess, to make specific child board for each of the languages. Here in Europe we sometimes forget how big countries like India and China are, and how many different languages people are using.

I know about issued an average bitcoiner in India has and that government is pressing you hard for years. Hopefully that changes as India is huge market and both people in your country and bitcoin itself would benefit from your government being more open to this whole idea.

I will, and thank you for detailed answer about situation in your local board, as I am interested in those since I see them as an important and often overlooked part of the bitcointalk forum.

Cheers!

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As a matter of fact, I've been planning for some time to include few most active communities from Other Languages board, as a kind of support for those languages without local board, but for some reason I kept postponing it, but I am gonna change that now and I'll try to update October chart with few most actives ones (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Serbian and Vietnamese) in the next few days, probably by the end of this week.

While I can easily count posts written in some specific timeframe manually, and merit shared for posts written in that period, one thing I can't do manually is to check whether someone merited post written in let's say June 2019, but he merited it during October 2020. It should be included in October chart, but I simply can't find something like that manually.

I asked assistance in that regard, and if that is not possible, I will at least count posts and merit shared for posts written in that period. That is best I can do manually, for now.

@Rikafip Is it possible to provide similar charts for pinned topics under Other languages/locations ?

Given the population we have in our country and how good the crypto could have been here, it is quite opposite to see just a little over 2-3 posts being made on a regular scale per day. This is primarily because of the confused legalization of cryptocurrencies in our country and far less education in terms of bitcoin on the whole. At times, it could even sound like I am roaming all alone in the board  I even went to the extent of organizing various fun free raffles each month which pays out 0.001 btc just for guessing a hash number to engage the discussions but all these efforts went in vain considering the meagre Indian population we have in forum. Even to this month, I organize them but hardly it takes up to 2 months to fill up 16 spots  Check this : [INDEPENDENCE DAY RAFFLE] #7 - Pick a lucky number and win 0.001 bitcoin

This could be because of various reasons :

[1] People aren't willing to show they belong to India
[2] Since Indian netizens speak English, majority move onto global boards
[3] Even though trading has become legal since Feb 2020, people still fear using crypto here.
[4] No real adoptions, lack of education in bitcoin and scams rising in huge numbers : Ethereum Investment Schemes are again active in India

There is a telegram group "IndiaBits" which is filled with a little over 4k members but the discussions are related only to trading and nothing much. Hardly some devs pop up, but the discussions are submerged in trading. More importantly, we can't import mining machines (least to say legally) and hence we don't have any mining discussions taking place over.

English seems to be a major hurdle for us, but we have at least 22 official languages spoken in various parts of country and if we try to create topics in each and every language it would mess up the whole board making them unreadable. This is why we are using English on the main boards.

Check this topic to know more about the current situation of our board : WTF! with this board?

October is behind us, time to see how local boards performed during that period

As in all monthly overviews so far, all data was taken from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard. If you want more in depth analysis of each local boards, I suggest you check that awesome tool.

Names marked with * don't have their own local board and are located in Other languages/locations.

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Post activity per local board during October 2020


Once again Russian board is way ahead of the others, but this time even more as they had huge increase of post activity in Altcoin section (basically all difference compared to previous months comes from there). Turkish and German board are  2nd and 3rd spot as always so no surprises there. Rest of the boards had pretty much similar activity like in previous months.

One thing that can always mess up these numbers and paint the wrong picture is number of deleted posts, and that's what exactly happened in Arabic board, that is more active than it seems based on this chart, as they had more than 400 deleted posts, for some reason. same thing can be said about Chinese board that is not even on the list due huge amount of post deleted, but that is not news anymore.

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Merit shared per local board during October 2020

As in previous chart, not many surprises there this month. There were no big amplitudes in majority of boards, but there are few exceptions; Pilipinas board increased merit shared by almost 100% compared to September (from 70 to 137) while Polish board had exactly the opposite thing, merit shared decreased by 90% (from 83 to 8 ). Huge changes, especially in the latter case as their post activity didn't change drastically to explain that difference.

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Merit senders and receivers per local board during October 2020

This chart generally follows the previous one, as it is natural that local boards with more merit shared have more members involved, but there are always few exceptions in which more members are part of the merit system compared relative to merit shared. As always, Pilipinas board especially sticks out, with Indonesian joining too.  

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Merit/Post ratio per local board during October 2020

Last but not the least, merit ratio chart. Once again Arabic board is at the top, followed by three big boards: Italian, Spanish and German. Some boards like Pilipinas doubled the ratio (from 0.08 to 0.16) while some that were already low like Russian even decreased, but that's due that huge amount of altcoin section posts. Polish board at the bottom of this chart is not a surprise since their amount of merit shared decreased by 90%.

As always, it's worth to mention that this chart can vary a lot each month due various reasons, so it shouldn't be taken too seriously. For clearer picture longer period of time is needed.

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I've added four communities that don't have their own local boards: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Serbian and Nigerian. They seemed like a most consistently active ones among those from Other Languages/Location and that was the main criteria.

Yet another brief monthly overview, slightly delayed this time.

As always, I took the data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard where you can find more interesting info regarding each board, and not only the local ones.

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Post activity in the period between September 1st and September 30th

Compared to August, there was a decent increase (approximately 9%) in the post count, from 21411 to 23233. As in previous months, no change at the top, Russian board is far ahead, followed by Turkish and German boards. Regarding other boards, no significant changes there except Arabic that had a lot of deleted posts for some reason. All those boards that are usually at the bottom end are still at the relatively similar numbers, with Chinese and few others missing due negative post count.

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Merit activity in the period between September 1st and September 30th

One would expect for merit number to increase due more posts written in local boards, but that's not the case this time. Despite 9% more written posts, overall merit amount shared decreased from 5681 to 5154 making it 9% less. Among most  active boards, Russian, Turkish and French had increase, while almost  all the others had lower numbers compared to previous period. These numbers usually fluctuate from month to month so it's not a reason to worry, imho.

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Merit senders and receivers per local board in the period between August 1st and August 31st

Self explanatory chart that more or less follows previous one, with few boards that usually have higher amount of members involved in merit system compared to merit shared. Someone might argue that those boards (Pilipinas for example) could use more merit sources, but it's hard to say without knowing post quality and only members active there can say whether that's true.

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Merit/Post ratio for the period between September 1st and September 31st

Due increased post amount and less merit shared, overall ratio dropped from 0.27 to 0.22. Arabic board is once again at the top, but  2 merit/post ratio is deceiving  as that board had unusually high number of posts deleted that inflated the ratio, while Hebrew is so high simply because their very low post count, so even 2 merit shared inflated that number as well.

I don't know what's going there, whether their lost merit source or posting quality decreased but Pilipinas board continued their decline month after month, with record low 0.08 merit/post. Another board that used to have much higher ratio, Turkish, is still at the bottom end of the chart but for that one we know the reason (lost merit source).