Topic: Is the new ERA of merit dying again? - page 2. (Read 624 times)

I meant maybe is better to give less to legendary and more to lower ranks, I also give merits to legendary but maybe is better give a 1 merit instead 2 to legendary (especially if merit sources) and 2 instead 1 to lower ranks.
I can be wrong about it.

Merit giving most times vary(in percentage),due to the state of the forum at that very particular time, like for example,the case you mentioned about more merits being given during the period of the enhanced newbie restrictions..
The restrictions seemed to spur noobs on to make quality stuff on the forum, and the resultant effects of that was more and more merits,and with an obvious increase in sources at that particular period,coupled with an increased willingness of high rankees to hand out merits to noobs who were at least putting up an effort
  Hence it lead to an increase in the merit giving process...
This isn't correct,not all legendary members are really quite more knowledgeable,though a larger percentage are, most legendaries are simply on that rank based on longevity on the forum(which is also an achievement in itself)
 You can't really call a merit being handed to a legendary as unnecessary,and they actually do need it for quite some reasons
 Firstly forget about ranking up or anything of that sort,merits are acknowledgement for quality posting,or helpful assistance,every user wants his or her posts to fall under such categories irrespective of ranks..
 Also such high ranked members need more merits inorder to generate Smerits,so they'll be able to acknowledge someone else's post for it's quality by meriting it(hence contributing their own quota to the development of the forum)
Also high rankees need merits to boost their earned merits,which is obviously a boost to their ego as opposed to air dropped ones..

Hello, folks, I was looking at new start from the introduction of new merit sources and numbers are very discouraging.
First of all, I want to analyze the total number of merits that have been spent since 17.09.2018 or the day when about 30% of additional merit sources have been added to the previous list of merit sources.
I have my personal data but I will use @DdmrDdmr dashboard so everyone can look at it.

On the 1st week, we had the all-time high, with a spike of 9587 merits! The cause of this is Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements when a lot of Jr. Members with no earned merit were de-ranked to newbie status and to rank up again they needed 1 merit.
Some of them bought merit, some of them abused their alts with one main account and some merits did a great job ranking up some good users.
The result of this was the spike of merit.



After that, we went down week after week till on the week from 09-10-2018 to 04/11/2018 with only 3321 very close to 3186 on the week from 27/08/2018 to 02/09/2018.
This is astonishing to me, and I don't really understand why.
Ok, bounty social media abusers already ranked up again with only 1 merit on 1st week of the new ERA but now with so many sources why we have a very low circulation of merit?
Some sources must be afk or have lost the interest on this reward system.

More Graphs!

(I've removed Admin, Global Moderator, Staff, Donator, Brand new ranks from the equation)





Problems:
As we can see here we have around 36000 merits spent from 17.09.2018 and the 24% are used on Legendary ranks.
I understand that Legendary can probably write more quality threads but I think the overcap merit is almost trashed merit since they don't need it. Don't you think is better to use it on Newbie-Hero Members?
I wrote this since almost every merit source has legendary rank and this means a huge percentage of this 24% comes from the sources.
Why members and Junior members tends to rewards the same rank and ignore higher ranks? Can we assume a lot of them as alts?

In the end, I want to report the Number of ranked up users on last 2 months according to the dashboard's website.

Edit: Those numbers from the dashboard can be wrong on the next chart, we need @LoyceV for the correct number!



What do you think about this situation? We have 35 more new sources since August but we have only ~150 merits more than the all-time low week!



(PS. and offtopic but I don't want to open a new thread for this! Lauda is now removed from DT2 list, we need more of them on reputation board. I've reported around 500 users overall, need someone to tag them all! -> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.42378900)