Topic: Goodbye to Merit History... - page 2. (Read 913 times)

@LoyceV, can you check my profile according your "all time data" if my merit stats are correct? Trying to troubleshoot a problem here so it will be useful to know if there is something wrong with the data dumps.

This is annoying I use this to add new lines to my old file:

But, this indeed fails on the lines you've mentioned:
It refers to this post, and my script outputs this:
In reality, aleix has received 17 Merit.


I'm not sure yet how to fix my "all time copy" of theymos' data. I don't really mind of a few links are incorrect, but the amounts should add up exactly. I think I just have to find where the files overlap and copy it without using the comm command.

I wish initial merits be gone along with history after 120 days. Now we'll see wave 2 of initial merits "distribution".

Who else got fooled by the title? 

In my opinion merit is needed for bounty hunters only, if you're visiting that forum for chatting only there is no difference if you're a Member or a Hero.
Anyway I predict a tons of whine in next couple of days  

There's alway this (took me sometime to retrieve the reference, but I had it in the back of my mind):


So the current design of the forum does not seem to facilitate paging on our Merit History track.

Many people have the merit statistical analysis backed up somewhere. Something like this shouldn't be allowed to just wipe away like that. It has to be preserved so that in time to come, if the merit system persists one can look back and say when merit was first introduced, it was like or like that.

there are ways around this...

The only thing you need are the cookies of a logged in session, you'll probably need to refresh this cookie every hour, and you shouldn't make more than 30 requests/minute
Even bypasses cloudflare

Thanks, I think I know what's going on with them:

time         amount       msg                         user_from    user_to  
1526466697   1   4097266.msg37354230   1192397   209286
1526427398   1   4075132.msg37378125   452769   1168027
1526417463   1   3979143.msg37390368   1160524   1012481
1526412210   1   4075132.msg37378125   1627661   1168027
1526403535   2   4032536.msg37344086   234915   501852
1526391452   2   4032536.msg37344086   1765178   501852
1523884328   2   4169555.msg34758186   974425   668651
1518181690   1   4029745.msg29300364   1141229   1495332
1518181563   1   4029745.msg29300364   1141229   1495332

The timestamp is in the current file as you say, but the messageID has changes from one file to the other. The first record (4097266.msg37354230) still exists and reading the post seems to have moved section. The remaining 8 are now deleted (propably after moving them first).

I'm using as a conceptual PK all the fields in the record, not just the time, therefore showing those records in the new file as non-existant in relation to last week's file.

I checked and there are 499 cases of timestamps with 2 or more associated TXs in the file, therefore going for the complete record PK.

Edit:
What this entails is that changes to records older than 120 days may not be consistent in our ALT aggregate databases.
For example, as seen above, some merited TXs may change section or get deleted, but the ALT aggregate database will still point to the original message once the TX is outside of the 120 window frame.

It should be a minor issue, since in a week only 9 awarded Txs have suffered a change of associated message Id. Just a bug for accuracy, but not a problem on the whole.

is there a way around to make archive.is able to capture my merit page?
it seems that merit page can only be viewed by registered users only, any reason for this?
It would be great if theymos can change so viewing the page does not require login

I checked all time stamps, and they all show up in this weeks's data file.

So now is the time the scammers with a slight amount of intelligence are found out. The guys who noticed the 120 day limit will now start trading back the merits they received... luckily the detectives have the data dump

Yeah, my first merit (from 24th of Jan) is now in the History , gone.
Good that I have a back-up and I was thinking to make a thread to keep track on the merit and also for reference.
Time flies ....

Seen it. The Merit.txt file already has some initial hours trimmed off:

This Weeks:
nMerit     nTx        nFrom   nTo      minDate                              maxDate
156729   70826   14056   15682   2018-01-25 02:52:04.000   2018-05-25 02:45:40.000

Last Weeks:
nMerit     nTx        nFrom   nTo      minDate                               maxDate
154986   69364   13904   15511   2018-01-24 22:12:21.000   2018-05-18 02:50:12.000

The chopped off registers add up to 2359 sMerits (610 wacky deflowering the system Txs).

The weird thing I've found are a set of 9 Txs that were in last week's file and not on this weeks, belonging to the common period:

time         amount   msg                           user_from    user_to   converted_date
1526466697   1   45212.msg37354230       1192397   209286    2018-05-16 10:31:37.000
1526427398   1   3297659.msg37378125   452769     1168027   2018-05-15 23:36:38.000
1526417463   1   1747305.msg37390368   1160524   1012481   2018-05-15 20:51:03.000
1526412210   1   3297659.msg37378125   1627661   1168027   2018-05-15 19:23:30.000
1526403535   2   2671650.msg37344086   234915     501852    2018-05-15 16:58:55.000
1526391452   2   2671650.msg37344086   1765178   501852    2018-05-15 13:37:32.000
1523884328   2   3315165.msg34758186   974425     668651    2018-04-16 13:12:08.000
1518181690   1   2669342.msg29300364   1141229   1495332   2018-02-09 13:08:10.000
1518181563   1   2669342.msg29300364   1141229   1495332   2018-02-09 13:06:03.000

I've seen this happen before, but now it is a (very minor) issue, since we have to merge files.
The above 9 TXs should be in both files. I tried to check some of the messages and they are probably deleted messages. Nevertheless, as with all Merit.txt files, the TX should remain in the file.

Any idea why this happens to those 9 TXs ?

Tried to open the link, downloaded something and then i checked the content. Man, i did not understand any of those. Other than having a backup file/record for the merit history, are there any reason why are we doing this?

If needed, I can make a thread in Reputation where I grant Merit-history-requests for any user.

I did not know about it, thank you for the warning. I will start saving the records to always remember who gave me merit and for what reason. Unfortunately, this might help some people that do merit farm. Since attempts to combat them are still being tested.

I think many people in here have a list for statistical purposes or some back up. In any case there would be many ways to preserve it online, the file is growing but is nothing enormously big.

And this means that anyone that merited themselves through alt accounts that havent been caught yet will get away with it.
Why was there a 120 day limit put on it?

All good things must come to an end.

Today marks 120 days since the merit system was introduced, and as Theymos said, old entries are going to start dropping off the file:

https://bitcointalk.org/merit.txt.xz

If you want a complete list of merit entries, you now need to keep your own historical records.

Oldest entries (120+ days) will also start disappear off of individual merit pages.