Topic: Happy birthday, the merit system! (Read 975 times)

Nice figure, DdmrDdmr.  I found most usernames are familiar to me.  The merit system does work, makes it easier to recognize high quality posters and enhances the number of such posters.

Thank you for pointing out my mistakes and updating the dashboard!
On my mistake, lines 45 and 46 were duplicated. Users who received Merit on Japanese local board was correctly 64 people. I fixed the post.

Yes, it is said that there are three Merit sources, but Merit distribution on our local board is very small, only 0.6% of the number circulating throughout the local board. (562/93, 073)
It may be because our local board has few posts and is not very active. I hope that this year will be more active and that good postings will increase

Yeah, right!  
It's because of the username not because you have earned 6 or 7 times more merit than me  
How nice of you to put it that way !!!

Took me about 0.5 seconds to find mine, haha. It's your own fault for signing up with a normal username containing only letters. You should have picked something ugly, with symbols, and a nightmare to type out like mine, then you stand out a mile away.

@DdmrDdmr, I meant it as a joke as probably whenever I come close to it I saw a name..hey that's x..went the other direction..oh hey here is a pack of CM campaign, let's see how many are side by side...
Even after I found my name I spent some more time just checking who is where.

As for the eyesight I try to take breaks as the doctor said because I was experiencing blurring vision, after 30 mins of watching the screen I go on the balcony (if it's not a damn winter like now) or at least the window and try to relax my eyes for around 5 mins watching what's happening in real life.


Don't!!!! I'll have to take a day off 

It took me two minutes roughly to find yours, but my eyesight has got way worse this year, and is now on the verge of needing some aid. I really do hope that all 312 names are on the list, and that the chart didn’t chop-off some names to make them fit (I counted names on an area and extrapolated, and it seemed to have them all accounted for). My initial idea was to include all merited usernames, but obviously the word cloud comes out pretty crap with over 26K users …

Do you have any idea how much you affected productivity worldwide? 
With thousands of people having their eyes glued to the screen to see if/where their names are?

I spent (based on browser history) 6 minutes to find my name, and I even double check to see if I am even supposed to be there.
Damn, I need glasses!!!!!

A tiny little thing: It looks like you’ve duplicated row entry number 45 on the first list (sameji919) over to row number 46, and therefore there is one more user on the list than exists really. I should be updating the Dashboard today, so today’s data will reflect the information as of this morning, making it the real 1 year data set.

Anyhow, nice to see that local boards trace the merit activity. Numbers are pretty low on your local board, but it really requires some inner knowledge of your local board to tell whether it is aligned with the quality and quantity of posts being made there.

An interesting exercise to perform is to list all local board merited profiles, and indicate what percentage of each profile comes from the local board. I did that some while ago for my local board.
My personal local board merit ratio as of last week was of 10,87% (we can see it on the Merit Dashboard using the Merit User Summary Tab – Item Received Subsections, but it’s a one by one task; much quicker straight from the database). On my local board, there is only one 100% local board created Full Member (many are cross-boarders). That is extremely difficult to achieve.

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nicely made, happy Bday from the HATcommunity as well   

All of them are good posters and contributors to the forum. The merit system clearly reflects such decent members.

I see that many people want to change the merit system. Some of users suggest interesting ideas. I'm sure that the still young merit system will grow up and be improved until its second anniversary.

Happy birthday, Merit!

This is the Stats of my Japanese local board.（Source is Merit Dashboard）
Merited User Ranking                  

Rank	Merit	User Name
1	120	hakka
2	72	tactac
3	62	sncc
4	44	nanna
5	28	zaq130
6	24	Anon11073
7	23	kazuki.t
8	14	segare
9	12	imshon
10	10	kinopi
11	10	redtag070
12	8	Choco99
13	7	Leteravian
14	7	machamizu
15	6	saitoutakasi
16	6	Tamak
17	6	popomaru
18	6	Ken-san
19	6	mktkm
20	5	CosplayToken
21	5	kenart.dd514
22	5	miswo
23	5	mmrism
24	5	Satosi Nakyamoto
25	4	Amane
26	4	danmaril
27	4	imtaamo
28	4	solt
29	3	Furgon Chino
30	3	hojojon
31	3	makotosan
32	2	Takeshi9953
33	2	masayan777
34	2	treattreat
35	2	Buff88
36	2	gumi_daisuki
37	2	compota
38	2	bittab
39	2	HBV
40	1	yamaguchi008
41	1	wlhdxloli
42	1	takainfo77
43	1	SpreadWinner
44	1	serpenti111
45	1	sameji919
46	1	pappy0157
47	1	newken321
48	1	narghat
49	1	nara1892
50	1	machimoto45
51	1	kikunoshin
52	1	ken_hatoyama
53	1	jappitoniboshitonekoto
54	1	isamuaamc
55	1	Im japanese owesome
56	1	idenfy3
57	1	drybull
58	1	dosukoi72
59	1	Donkatsu
60	1	Ccsndr
61	1	bombomtarou2082
62	1	bitlawyer
63	1	akisue2
64	1	airdropwwani
total amount	562

                  

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Meriter User Ranking                  

Rank	Merit	From User Name
1	254	Anon11073
2	91	nanna
3	64	sncc
4	46	hakka
5	36	tactac
6	14	zaq130
7	8	3x2
8	5	Imaha486
9	5	imshon
10	4	redtag070
11	3	machamizu
12	3	seedone1122
13	2	Satosi Nakyamoto
14	2	UltraPlay
15	2	Tamak
16	2	segare
17	2	kazuki.t
18	2	hojojon
19	2	DarkStar_
20	2	kenart.dd514
21	1	thew3apon
22	1	TheKingInYellow
23	1	pokemoso
24	1	pokayoke
25	1	newken321
26	1	nasutaro
27	1	mmrism
28	1	mktkm
29	1	kazu3
30	1	jappitoniboshitonekoto
31	1	gogo5050
32	1	dosukoi72
33	1	BitCryptex

      

64 users received Merit and the user who received the most received 120 Merit.
Also, 33 users sent Merit, and the user who sent the most sent 254 Merit.
Thank you Merit system! I'm happy that Merit circulates more actively in the next year

Well, congratulations on the merit system and to those implemented it. For sure the forum was being saved from shit posting and it was actually minimized in addition to the new merit requirement for the newbie to rank up in jr. member rank. Now, it seems that the forum has gone quite without those shit posters around. The challenge now is to gather more bitcoin users and to be able to participated in this forum discussion to let bitcoin go hype again.

Just a quick word cloud will all the 312 usernames that have managed to earn at least 150 merits as of today (value chosen arbitrarily to allow for names to be readable). Name size is proportional to the number of earned merits.

It is obviously a reachable target.
For me, I have gone one-fifth of my journey to Senior position.
Strongly believe that till the end of this year, I will hit the finish line.

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I'd couldn't believe can be ranked up to Hero Member
I thought it was impossible rank-up from Full Member to Hero Member

Congrats, you are the exception, to show that ranking up is possible (but still hard enough for the rest, I guess )
Anyway, nice job, and keep up the good posting

Let’s put this way: I recently ranked up to full member. I registered little less than a year ago ,but I have been active since June.
I briefly ventured on alt section tbh, but I noticed that I got so much merits given to me or I sent so many to others (where merits means knowledge exchanged with the board basically) when I deduced to leave that section forever.

Little self celebratory post about me becoming a self made Full Member and where I explain what merits are to me
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.49397868

I think it won't be good action from me to open new thread with different title, so OP what about to change title? Forum before and after merit <--- 1 year has passed and now is a good time say something actually on changes, what's improved, what's declined, was this the solution?
Merit really changed overall situation on this forum but seems merit didn't touch to altcoin discussion section lol

I think maybe not...
Apart from signatures, I don't think there is any other thing of some importance where rank matters.
As far as I know, pm limits are based on activity (!?) so.....

And just the other day I saw a topic about what we should have after Legendary, it's quite clear that without a merit decay or nuking the airdrop merit the ranks will become a bit confusing...
After all, what do they prove?



Those thousands of active accounts what maybe doesn't give a damn about what they post as long as they have done their quota. Whenever I venture in the alt section I see hundreds of members I've never encountered on the forum before.
It would be interesting to know how many of them have never left the alt and bounty section ....uhhfff....

.... yeah @Loycev if you read this (or the AI does) I still have the data you dumped on me a month ago and I haven't forgotten and I haven't yet!!!! gave up, but I can't parse that unless I break it into pieces so small it will be a pain to glue the results after.
I tried two scripts and they all ended hanging even with 1/8 of the file.

So I might have the answer to my own question right here, but unable to see it  

Fine for me, Legendary could remain 1000 merits, that's really a kind of thing that's hard to achieve, no problem with that. (even if we just withdraw the airdropped merits)
In this case, is this rank thing necessary at all?

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Just wondering, I'm fine with the current situation as well, because based on my last 1 year progress (100 merit earned per year ), I have 4 years unless I become legendary, but it's not a problem for me, I can manage the situation. This is the highest rank, this should be really hard to achieve, unless it will lose it's special feeling...

But the Full member rank is just the 3rd rank, not the last one, and if people will struggle to reach even the 3rd rank, that would make them disappointed (just my opinion, and I'm talking about the 'normal' users, not the spammers or the farmed accounts). If I understand DdmrDdmr's chart right, there were 82 members, who managed to become Full member (from Member) since the introduction of the merit system, this is less than 10 members per month, for the entire forum. Taking into consideration that we have thousands of active accounts, it's not really much (even if only minor part of the active accounts post meaningful things...)

To become a Full member from Member, there's a 90 merit gap to fill, which means you have to get nearly 1 merit per post (120 activity compared to 100 merit), which is really hard. If you only post the necessary 14 posts per activity period (to avoid spamming the whole forum, fishing for merit everywhere and make the forum unreadable), it's a really really hard task. People would give up sooner than we expect

Or, if we want to give prestige to ranks, Senior member could be the first of the perstigious ranks, and we should not touch the merit requirements of Senior and above, and only lessen the merit requirement of the 3rd rank a bit, to help people rank up at least to Full member, to feel that they are already fully accepted members of the community

I know that rank doesn't matter for a lot of people, but for a lot of other people it does (and not only because of the signature campaigns, it's only for the signature spammers), and it won't ruin the success of the current merit system if we could adjust the requirement a bit of the 3rd rank...

But it's just an idea (and a wall of text I know ) and I don't want to harm anyone with it, just wanted to help those members who really deserves it (and I know that they're the minority nowdays...)