Topic: [FUN] Is DdmrDdmr even human? - page 6. (Read 9377 times)

Lol, was this the biggest merit spree?

I'd say it's the biggest in the last 8 months or so, I've been scrolling down the merits sent by him yesterday and it didn't seem to end. My posts have been merited for the third time. I don't know if it's to do with Christmas, or that he had spare merits he wanted to spend, in any case thanks and Merry Christmas to DdmrDdmr and all the merit recipients.

Xmas Spree detected!

Merit Spree #30 by @ddmrddrmr
Official @ddmrddmr thread

Official Description:


My review:

For the second year, we have a special, massive Xmas edition of @ddmrddmr sprees. And also, this year is a gigantic one!



This spree was quite big compared to the last ones, but still, it's the third position since I have been monitoring the sprees!
Definitely, it will make Christmas happier somewhere!


Looking at the most merited users in this round.

Here’s the TOP20:


41 merits in a single spree! Not Bad!

I don't own anything, he got nothing from my post today. LOL

But I'm glad DdmrDdmr still has this habit. His fingers were quick and sure these were some worthy gifts during celebrations. As a special user and as a generous merit source, his generosity is often something special.

Oh!Oh!Oh!

It's Christmas time, and apparently, a gargantuan merit spree has been sprinkled above us by our festive mutual friend favourite AI!

Merry Christmas to you, fellow DdmrDdmr observers!

This was the quickest run since I have been tracking your spree in a decent way:


(Assume errors are present!)

Maybe CF is now accepting more requests per second?

Not sure why it was faster, as I didn’t really change anything. There are a couple of possible options that could have made the process speedier on this occasion:

- There were less merited posts than on prior occasions. Normally, the process is faster on the first bunch of posts I remerit, before Cloudflare kicks-in to complain that I'm going too fast, leading the process to perform some retries. Having less posts to remerit should therefore likely show with a better TX/s ratio.

- VPN connection will differ from one session to another. I may have caught a faster track on the last spree.

Deferring the spree a day may have broke the TX/s record in the opposite direction, as per the problems described here.

Note: Minor correction: last spree was on the tenth really.

Merit spree detected!

Merit Spree #29 by @ddmrddrmr
Official @ddmrddmr thread

Official Description:


My review:

My meritband started whirring while in the wild, I noticed I was the second user to be merited in this spree, so I saw it just from the beginning in almost real time.



It was a small, but efficient one: both TX/Second and Merits seconds were record this time!
Maybe @ddmrddmr pulled an ace from his sleeve?

Looking at the most merited users in this round.

Here’s the TOP10:

Merit spree detected! @ddmrddmr is on the move!

I am in the wild right now… analyzing it as soon as I return to civilization!

The question is not that good, sorry. In the same way they sleep while we're blinking, you will most probably won't notice a bot's vacation. They may have more vacations than humans and still be perceived as working 24/7.

Technically, I heard that rebooting and reloading is a thing.. maybe even troubleshooting the Algos happens from time to time..

I suppose you can call such "down time" whatever you like. 

It's a free country the last time I checked. 

By the way, I did not ask very many people (nor bots) regarding exact definitions of "free" or what is supposed to be "country."  We surely do live in "interesting times," if we can try to keep up.... Does anyone have time for vacation anymore?

If you look closely, the above table, you see that I took a vacation on 14/08/2022.
Does it qualifies me as a bot?
I don't know.

I guess my point was that my revised point is that the ability of the smerits to timely replenish expires after 30 days.. but what I really meant is that they fail to renew (replenish as NeuroticFish clarified)... .. So I might have gotten caught in my own dramatic attempt at effect when I said poof.. .. I might have to take that back.. hate to do it.. but admittedly it is seeming a bit inaccurate and misleading about what is happening... .. because surely there is a difference between failing to renew and completely disappearing.. so in that sense you may or may not have had a failure to replenish unless you fail to spend for more than 30 days, because my understanding is that when you do spend from your source merits, the oldest ones will get spent first.


You got a point there.


For sure, I did not want to suggest that you would be removed as a merit source based on long periods of inactivity.. but I was convoluting failing to replenish with decaying merits.. which I am not sure if decaying merits is actually anything that has been done - except if theymos ended up doing that manually... so you are likely right that they would just max out and then at some point if the issue persists in which you are not spending your source merits, theymos might determine to remove you as a merit source or to reduce your smerit allowance.  Up to his discretion, of course.


I felt that I had to let you know that this matter happens to be serious and with potentially serious consequences.


Ok. This is probably how I should have said it.. I admit.  I got carried away, and  I ended up suggesting that decay happens rather than mere failure to replenish.


That brings up a good question.  Is it possible that bots actually are able to get vacations?  

Don't feel alone, LoyceV.  

See the above "confirmed" list of the other forum bots provided by fillippone.

There are no holidays in the life of a merit source.
Everyday spending merits (certainly), everyday getting merits (hopefully).
At least, judging from the "Received Merit Streaks" from ddmrddmr Merit Dashboard, this has been my life during the last few years.

I think that if he doesn't use the merit source sMerit, it simply doesn't get replenished (i.e. remain with the max he can have), and that's all.
Does sMerit decay was actually implemented at all? Since I think it wasn't...


LOL!
If this never happens, then the (sad!) conclusion would be that there are no real holidays in LoyceV's life, or at least not long enough.

I haven't completely emptied my source sMerits for a while now, and they haven't expired

I expect it to be filled to 800 sMerits (or was it 850?).

I only expect that if theymos manually changes it, and I don't think I'd be removed as a Merit source after just one month of inactivity.

Lol

I don't disagree with anything that you are saying, except for the part of the source merit does actually "expire", "decay," "cease to exist" "kilt" or whatever other descriptor you would like to employ, if you do not use it in 30 days..

Yours are not "expiring" because you are using them prior to their "expiration" date. 

Try it out.   I dare you.

I double dare you.


 Try to NOT use your source merits in the next 30 days and see what happens to them?



I conjecture that they go "poof".. so even if you don't want to label such a happening as "expiring"  it seems pretty close to the same phenomena.

A rose by any other name and all of that.

 



Good luck.


Your results may vary.


try this at your own risk.



don't come crying to me, when your eye gets poked out.


 

I wouldn't say source sMerits expire. If I don't use them, they just stay in my account. But if I do use them, they're replenished exactly 30 days later. So you have 100 source sMerits to spend, and you spend them in the first day, you can do this (slightly over) 12 times per year (>1200 sMerits per year). If you spend 1 per day, you can do this forever, but you'll only spend 365 sMerits per year. My ideal spending (which I don't always reach) is spending them evenly throughout the month, keeping my source close to zero but with daily replenishments.

Ok.  I see what you are saying.  I think that I misread that tryninja link that I had posted in response to your post, because on a superficial level it had appeared to me that Paxmao tends to send his merits in short bursts rather than spreading them out - which tends to be closer to what I attempt to do (compare mine here), and yes from that "most generous" thread that you mentioned, since near the beginning of the merit system, Coin-1 (OP) has been attempting to identify who he believes to be merit source members based on the quantity of smerits that members were sending out and also if there might be other information in which some members claim (or admit) to be a merit source (or if there is information that they are NO longer a merit source).. so you are right about both Paxmao's recent quantity of smerits sent per month and his overall quantity of smerit sent causing him to be around 29th-ish on the overall list, which is the first post of the thread, that shows Paxmao to be suspected as a merit source.. of course, he is 29th on that list and his name is bolded.. so the inferences of his being a merit source is pretty strong, if that were the ONLY information to go by... but sure, there may be other sources of information as to when he became a merit source, as you mentioned.

Not at all. I'm fine with merits now. I have already made it to Hero and in time, I will slowly make it to Legendary, but the merits worried me a lot more when I had to climb from lower ranks than they do now.


I'm speaking from memory but I think years ago he applied for merit source from the local Spanish section, and it sounds to me like he was appointed. Looking online, I see that in June 2018 he was listed as the 29th most generous user and the last update was 27th. Maybe if he didn't spend a lot of merits, they reduced his allocation but he does seem to be a merit source.

The essence of the matter is that source smerits expire exactly 30 days after they are awarded if they are not used, so how frequently the source smerits come in for any merit source relates to his/her spending behavior, so if s/he spends in large chunks, then the smerits will come in in large chunks.... To me, it seems that it would be a bit easier to try to build a reasonable inference that merit source smerits are coming in rather than to try to figure out the more complicated case about whether such merit source had not been spending smerits fast enough in order that they are coming due to expire.

If you believe someone is a merit source, and if you are stalking such merit source (I am not recommending this), then you might be able to figure out how many smerits that s/he has coming available for spending at any given time just by looking at 30 days worth of merit spending history.  Another thing is that source merits get spent prior to regular merits, so it is a bit more difficult to know whether any specific smerit that had been spent had come from the source smerits or from the regular bank (and of course, regular bank smerits are not renewed but instead awarded 1/2 based on received smerits).

There are likely some additional tools (such as tryninja's merit tab) that are out there too for trying to verify source merits that might be available, but of course, you can also get some pretty good senses of how many source merits are coming available to merit source members just by looking at when their spent merits are 30 days old.

By the way, Paxmao's merit spending is not very high, so I have doubts about whether he is even a merit source..  He may well have just been spending from his smerit bank.  https://ninjastic.space/user/paxmao