LoyceV's Merit data analysis (full data since Jan. 24, 2018; not just 120 days) - page 26.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: suchmoon on March 09, 2018, 05:54:17 PM

Thank you for doing this! I expected the red to be larger than the blue, so this is a surprise.

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To be fair, this is heavily skewed due to people meriting theymos' merit announcement thread, satoshi's thread, HODL thread etc.

All the more reason why I'm surprised Tongue

It would be interesting to see how this ratio differs per board, I can imagine the Technical section has much more Merit for good answers, and the Meta section for topics. It's all on my Todo list (and I'm still recovering from the flu).

@BTCforJoe: thanks for testing, OP updated.

BTCforJoe

hero member

Activity: 882

Merit: 976

Quote from: TheQuin on March 07, 2018, 12:23:23 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on March 07, 2018, 11:52:26 AM

Double-clicking the button perhaps?

Ah the fat finger bug, I hadn't thought of that. It could be, now I need to find a post worth two merit to see if I can replicate it.

No need. Your top post is well worthy of [at least] 2 Merits.

I just double-clicked the send button on the Merit page. I can confirm that double-clicking does indeed double-merit.

See you in next week's stats! Cheesy

suchmoon

legendary

Activity: 3654

Merit: 8909

https://bpip.org

Quote from: LoyceV on March 08, 2018, 03:46:14 PM

I'm also curious to see what percentage of Merit is given to the first post of threads, and what percentage to posts inside threads.

Since I'm digging through the data anyways... - https://pastebin.com/Cf8PDFAg

This is a list of first posts in merited threads. The ones marked with "off limits" are either deleted posts or posts in "privileged" areas (e.g. Ivory Tower) that require to be logged in. Can't vouch for 100% accuracy but I spot checked a few and it looked ok. So if the "msg" field in the merit export matches one of those then it's the first post in the thread.

Based on that:

To be fair, this is heavily skewed due to people meriting theymos' merit announcement thread, satoshi's thread, HODL thread etc.

tbct_mt2

hero member

Activity: 2366

Merit: 838

Quote from: LoyceV on March 08, 2018, 03:46:14 PM

--snip--

Thanks, LoyceV. I don't have skills to do those things (getting data from raw data published by Theymos) because I am not IT technician. I simply have ability to analyze data; if you get more detailed datasets which contains more variables, I can help you. If you interested, I can help you.

tbct_mt2

hero member

Activity: 2366

Merit: 838

Quote from: LoyceMobile on March 08, 2018, 11:43:40 AM

Quote from: tbct_mt2 on March 08, 2018, 11:31:59 AM

Quote from: LoyceV on March 06, 2018, 05:24:24 PM

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I can help you to do statistical analysis for your objectives if I can get datasets. I am not familiar (actually don't know how to get data from the forum). Raw dataset contains very little information. We need more variables to do analysis. Grin

I'm currently too ill to do anything. What more data do you want?

More variables such as ranks of merit senders/receivers; total number of rewarded merit points for each board; total number of merits (received/ sent) for each users. It's for new-comers in crypto ecosystem.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: tbct_mt2 on March 08, 2018, 11:49:10 AM

More variables such as ranks of merit senders/receivers

This is a bit tricky, as I can't have real-time Merit data. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to determine how many "free" Merits an account had received.

Quote from: LoyceV on March 06, 2018, 05:24:24 PM

Total number of users who earned 1 or more Merit: 10382
Click for the full list (format: "Merit username (#userID)")

Total number of users who gave away 1 or more sMerit: 9725
Click for the full list (format: "sMerit username (#userID)")

I'm also curious to see what percentage of Merit is given to the first post of threads, and what percentage to posts inside threads.

LoyceMobile

hero member

Activity: 1659

Merit: 687

LoyceV on the road. Or couch.

Quote from: tbct_mt2 on March 08, 2018, 11:31:59 AM

Quote from: LoyceV on March 06, 2018, 05:24:24 PM

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I can help you to do statistical analysis for your objectives if I can get datasets. I am not familiar (actually don't know how to get data from the forum). Raw dataset contains very little information. We need more variables to do analysis. Grin

I'm currently too ill to do anything. What more data do you want?

tbct_mt2

hero member

Activity: 2366

Merit: 838

Quote from: LoyceV on March 06, 2018, 05:24:24 PM

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I can help you to do statistical analysis for your objectives if I can get datasets. I am not familiar (actually don't know how to get data from the forum). Raw dataset contains very little information. We need more variables to do analysis. Grin

MadZ

hero member

Activity: 908

Merit: 657

Quote from: suchmoon on March 07, 2018, 10:39:31 PM

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Haha that was fast, this is exactly what I was thinking of. I wonder if we'll see a stabilization over time as more source merit comes into the system. Right now it looks as if the initial supply of sMerit is still drying up, more merit was sent in the first week than the entire time month following that week.

suchmoon

legendary

Activity: 3654

Merit: 8909

https://bpip.org

Quote from: MadZ on March 07, 2018, 10:07:09 PM

Cool stats! Since you've already managed to sort by day of the week, would it be possible to see how merit distribution has changed over time (more or less being sent out now than at the beginning).

MadZ

hero member

Activity: 908

Merit: 657

Cool stats! Since you've already managed to sort by day of the week, would it be possible to see how merit distribution has changed over time (more or less being sent out now than at the beginning).

TMAN

legendary

Activity: 1414

Merit: 1808

Exchange Bitcoin quickly-https://blockchain.com.do

I've done it a few times I think. If memory serves me right I actually did it with 10 merits. Easily done

TheQuin

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Activity: 2576

Merit: 883

Freebitco.in Support https://bit.ly/2I9BVS2

Quote from: suchmoon on March 07, 2018, 11:52:26 AM

Quote from: TheQuin on March 07, 2018, 07:34:59 AM

Quote from: LoyceV on March 07, 2018, 07:23:30 AM

Quote from: TheQuin on March 07, 2018, 05:42:21 AM

That happens if you hit refresh after sending merit. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.29197764

I've seen that bug before, but I doubt that happens at the same second. User "bitart" isn't in my list of people who sent Merit twice in one second.

It's obviously possible to do it slower than 1 second which would explain bitart's absence from the data. I was just thinking it would be odd if there was another bug that caused the same thing.

Double-clicking the button perhaps?

Ah the fat finger bug, I hadn't thought of that. It could be, now I need to find a post worth two merit to see if I can replicate it.

suchmoon

legendary

Activity: 3654

Merit: 8909

https://bpip.org

Quote from: TheQuin on March 07, 2018, 07:34:59 AM

Quote from: LoyceV on March 07, 2018, 07:23:30 AM

Quote from: TheQuin on March 07, 2018, 05:42:21 AM

That happens if you hit refresh after sending merit. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.29197764

I've seen that bug before, but I doubt that happens at the same second. User "bitart" isn't in my list of people who sent Merit twice in one second.

It's obviously possible to do it slower than 1 second which would explain bitart's absence from the data. I was just thinking it would be odd if there was another bug that caused the same thing.

Double-clicking the button perhaps?

TheQuin

hero member

Activity: 2576

Merit: 883

Freebitco.in Support https://bit.ly/2I9BVS2

Quote from: LoyceV on March 07, 2018, 07:23:30 AM

Quote from: TheQuin on March 07, 2018, 05:42:21 AM

That happens if you hit refresh after sending merit. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.29197764

I've seen that bug before, but I doubt that happens at the same second. User "bitart" isn't in my list of people who sent Merit twice in one second.

It's obviously possible to do it slower than 1 second which would explain bitart's absence from the data. I was just thinking it would be odd if there was another bug that caused the same thing.

Anyway thanks for doing this, the site stats cutting the lists off at 50 is very limiting. I'm also looking forward to the ranking stats. That'll not only find the cheats but also show that people can still rank up if they deserve it.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: TheQuin on March 07, 2018, 05:42:21 AM

That happens if you hit refresh after sending merit. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.29197764

I've seen that bug before, but I doubt that happens at the same second. User "bitart" isn't in my list of people who sent Merit twice in one second.

TheQuin

hero member

Activity: 2576

Merit: 883

Freebitco.in Support https://bit.ly/2I9BVS2

Quote from: LoyceV on March 06, 2018, 05:24:24 PM

Occasions where the same user merited the same post twice at the exact same time
26 posts received the same number of Merit from the same user in the same second. I assume those "double Merits" were accidental:

That happens if you hit refresh after sending merit. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.29197764

I've never done it but I did receive 1 + 1 for the same post from someone I assume had found that bug/feature.

Jet Cash

legendary

Activity: 2828

Merit: 2472

https://JetCash.com

Thanks for creating this, it's interesting reading, although I haven't looked in depth.

I haven't heard of most of the top awarders - are they active on the alt coin and bounty boards.

Would it be possible to provide information on awards on specific boards, such as the Beginners and the Frog Pond. Wasn't the merit system designed to encourage quality posting on the information and help boards about Bitcoin.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: Coins4Days on March 06, 2018, 07:22:38 PM

Would it be possible to have a crawler take all of this information and cross-reference merits to each day of the week?

That's actually very easy to do from theymos' data:

Monday 9430 (10.63%)
Tuesday 10060 (11.34%)
Wednesday 10942 (12.33%)
Thursday 22816 (25.72%)
Friday 14446 (16.28%)
Saturday 11063 (12.47%)
Sunday 9946 (11.21%)
Total: 88703

Thursday seems to be a good day, but the Merit system was introduced on a Thursday. The large amount sent on Thursdays could very well be from the first day (I didn't check this further).

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Total number of merits given out by each rank. Let's see who utilizes merits the most.

This will take a bit longer.

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Total number of merits given out across each board.

Ideally, https://bitcointalk.org/ should just show that on the main page. But I'll add it to my list.

Coins4Days

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Activity: 294

Merit: 27

bit.ly/Coins4Hash

Would it be possible to have a crawler take all of this information and cross-reference merits to each day of the week?

Total number of merits given out by each rank. Let's see who utilizes merits the most.
Total number of merits given out across each board. This will help us see where most posts are getting recognized and show what boards receive the least love (or the most shitposts).

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