Merit & new rank requirements - page 38.

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Quote from: andrewjaxx on February 18, 2019, 10:55:10 AM

A few weeks ago I have received two merits from somebody. Now both merits have gone. What happened? Is it a glitch in the forum or my merits disappeared?

Maybe if you have just decided to contribute something more useful to the community rather than spam a given thread with you alts, you would be having much more merit to notice that 2 merits where missing.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.49736435

I guess karma is a bitch after all.

andrewjaxx

newbie

Activity: 111

Merit: 0

A few weeks ago I have received two merits from somebody. Now both merits have gone. What happened? Is it a glitch in the forum or my merits disappeared?

tranthidung

legendary

Activity: 2310

Merit: 4085

Farewell o_e_l_e_o

Recently, I made abstract for both intra-day and intra-week merits there
You can see it on the link above.

In short:
It seems that the merit circulation in the forum has been slown down, one more time.

tranthidung

legendary

Activity: 2310

Merit: 4085

Farewell o_e_l_e_o

Update for the week:

Both median and mean of after period (cut-off day is 09/1/2019, the Default Trust Change) is higher than the before period.
However, those percent of changes decreased significantly from the first week later to five weeks later.
It seems that the assumption on effects of additional merit sources and re-allocation of sMerits to active merit sources have their impacts on merit circulation in the forum is wrong.
I tend to fall into the assumption that those sudden rise of merit circulation around 09/1/2019 due to abundant topics on Default Trust Change, that in turn caused more appearance of high quality posts.
More higher quality posts, more merit circulation within 1 or 2 weeks after the Default Trust Change. Grin

Quote from: tranthidung on February 16, 2019, 10:34:10 PM

5 weeks later update:
Median: +6.2%
Mean: +6.4%

Quote from: tranthidung on February 16, 2019, 10:12:25 PM

Update on intra-week merits (from 24/1/2018 to 11/2/2019)
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Time series plot

Basic statistics:
- 50% of observed weeks have total intra-week merits above 4474, whilst the rest 50% of them have total intra-week merits below 4474. 4474 is the median.
- 50% of observed weeks have total intra-week merits fluctuated in the range from 3800 to 5630 (the interquartile range, from p25 to p75, in raw statistics below).
- Min - max: 3065 - 30949.

For more details, please visit original analyses with links above.

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Update

tranthidung

legendary

Activity: 2310

Merit: 4085

Farewell o_e_l_e_o

The median of intra month merits (with the data contains 13 months, since Jan. 2018 to end of Jan. 2019) is 19597.
However, let's take a look at the fluctuations around the median, by looking at the interquartile range of intra-month merits.
The interquartile range found is 18047 to 23173. It means that 50 percent of 13 months observed have their total intra-month merits fluctuated in the range from 18047 to 23173 (including the median, at 19597, of course).
We tend to only focus on the mean, but the median is a better statistics for centralization, and the interquartile range (IQR) is important, too.
IQR help us to have a better overview on the distribution of what we observe.

More details, please visit my topic and my newest intra-month merits analysis there:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.49685978

tranthidung

legendary

Activity: 2310

Merit: 4085

Farewell o_e_l_e_o

Update for today.

From what happened after two significant changes in the forum (demotion of Junior Members in September 2018) and Default Trust Change simultaneously with new added merit sources & reallocation of merits to active merit sources, their effects do not last for too long (several weeks).
1) Intra-week merits:

Quote from: tranthidung on February 10, 2019, 07:21:06 AM

Intra-week merits

ABSTRACT (for truncated dataset)
(1) 50% of observed weeks have total intra-week merits above 4423 (median), whilst 50% of them have total intra-week merits below 4423.
(2) 50% of observed weeks have total intra-week merits in the range from 3798 to 4953 (the interquartile range).
(3) There are 7 potential outlier weeks in total, and the latest one occured in September (2018w38)

2) Tracking the difference of merit circulations with Default Trust Changes (4 weeks later)

Quote from: tranthidung on February 10, 2019, 06:58:34 AM

4 weeks later update:
Median: +15.6%
Mean: +11.1%

ABSTRACT

(1) Both median and mean of four-week-later period are higher then the before period, with cut-off day is 09/01/2019, at 15.6% and 11.1%, respectively.
(2) 50 percent of days in the four weeks later period have intraday merits in the range from 614 to 879 (the interquartile range), whilst the figures of the before period are 511 to 767.
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Outliers, non-displayed

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Enjoy it, everyone!

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2338

Merit: 10802

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

Quote from: Piggy on February 09, 2019, 01:46:49 AM

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Last Merit TX reversed I can recall were due to sMerit being sent in large quantities from a hacked account (3x50 sMerit TXs). Theymos reverted the TXs by deleting them altogether at the time (see re: Showing I merited 3 people 2 days ago but I never even visited those threads..).

The Japanese Merit Source case you mention rings a bell, but I can’t recall having looked specifically at such a case to check what I had to do to keep the information in accordance with whatever the outcome was. Perhaps I missed it.

The current approach seems better to me (TX + Counter TX).

Piggy

hero member

Activity: 784

Merit: 1416

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on February 08, 2019, 07:45:50 AM

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I did the same thing, so the next time It's taking care of itself.

It's kind of an exceptional case, but i think happened already in the past ( Japanese merit source selling merits or something similar as far as i remember) and in that case the entry may have been removed altogether?

DdmrDdmr

legendary

Activity: 2338

Merit: 10802

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MTwain

Quote from: Piggy on February 08, 2019, 04:51:18 AM

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I can barely post now, but I’m trying to keep the weekly updates going on Schedule.

The system used to revert the 104 sMerit (16 TXs) should work rather seamlessly, since the deletion has been implemented as a negative amount sMerit TX. The only thing to be wary of, in my case, will be the need to create a fake user with Id 0 and name ("Bitcointalk forum") or something like that. The fromUser will therefore not be able to link to a profile, since Id 0 does not really exists in the forum profiles.

TheBeardedBaby

legendary

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Merit: 3150

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Quote from: TheNewAnon135246 on February 08, 2019, 04:53:16 AM

Quote from: Piggy on February 08, 2019, 04:51:18 AM

It seems there is something strange in today data(merit.txt), are these some kind of revoked merits?

Code:

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1549404430 -10 0.msg0 0 92110
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Theymos recently removed a merit source and revoked some of the merit he sent.

Interesting, this is cryptohunter right there. ^

lobcmt2

full member

Activity: 462

Merit: 155

Code:

There are 122 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 20835 sMerit per 30 days

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=sources
122 merit sources in total, for now. However, total allocated merits to all merit sources remains the same as before.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

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Quote from: TheNewAnon135246 on February 08, 2019, 04:53:16 AM

Theymos recently removed a merit source and revoked some of the merit he sent.

Theymos undid some Merit once before, but at that time he just deleted the transactions. This is new.
Deena for instance has this:

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February 05, 2019, 11:07:10 PM: -2 from (Bitcoin Forum) for (Deleted/Off-limits/Ignored)

Thanks for reminding me, this will probably break my Merit-script.

Code:

-104 Merit sent by (#0) to 15 unique users in 16 transactions

TheNewAnon135246

legendary

Activity: 2198

Merit: 1989

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Quote from: Piggy on February 08, 2019, 04:51:18 AM

It seems there is something strange in today data(merit.txt), are these some kind of revoked merits?

Code:

1549404431 -2 0.msg0 0 92110
1549404430 -5 0.msg0 0 81995
1549404430 -2 0.msg0 0 1316028
1549404430 -9 0.msg0 0 290351
1549404430 -1 0.msg0 0 289011
1549404430 -9 0.msg0 0 249872
1549404430 -7 0.msg0 0 249436
1549404430 -8 0.msg0 0 165478
1549404430 -2 0.msg0 0 9645
1549404430 -10 0.msg0 0 358020
1549404430 -10 0.msg0 0 15728
1549404430 -10 0.msg0 0 2536607
1549404430 -4 0.msg0 0 1246188
1549404430 -10 0.msg0 0 355462
1549404430 -10 0.msg0 0 92110
1549404430 -5 0.msg0 0 2472107

Theymos recently removed a merit source and revoked some of the merit he sent.

Piggy

hero member

Activity: 784

Merit: 1416

It seems there is something strange in today data(merit.txt), are these some kind of revoked merits or just some random problem?

Code:

1549404431 -2 0.msg0 0 92110
1549404430 -5 0.msg0 0 81995
1549404430 -2 0.msg0 0 1316028
1549404430 -9 0.msg0 0 290351
1549404430 -1 0.msg0 0 289011
1549404430 -9 0.msg0 0 249872
1549404430 -7 0.msg0 0 249436
1549404430 -8 0.msg0 0 165478
1549404430 -2 0.msg0 0 9645
1549404430 -10 0.msg0 0 358020
1549404430 -10 0.msg0 0 15728
1549404430 -10 0.msg0 0 2536607
1549404430 -4 0.msg0 0 1246188
1549404430 -10 0.msg0 0 355462
1549404430 -10 0.msg0 0 92110
1549404430 -5 0.msg0 0 2472107

tranthidung

legendary

Activity: 2310

Merit: 4085

Farewell o_e_l_e_o

Quote from: coinlocket$ on February 04, 2019, 01:15:37 PM

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In fact, both intraday and intraweek merits decreased weeks later the Default Trust Change on 09/1/2019.
Intraday merits (before, and two-, three-weeks later the Default Trust change) presented via medians, and means.

Code:

. tabstat before090119 wkslater_2 wkslater_3, s(n mean sd p50 p25 p75 min max) format(%9.1f) c(s)

   variable | N mean sd p50 p25 p75 min max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
before090119 | 324.0 677.0 263.0 616.5 510.5 766.5 312.0 2463.0
  wkslater_2 | 14.0 840.4 191.4 845.5 658.0 987.0 611.0 1161.0
  wkslater_3 | 21.0 781.9 179.5 715.0 643.0 880.0 587.0 1161.0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Decreasing over time, right?
Someone said that the effects come from new added merit sources and re-allocation and re-distributional mechanism of airdropped sMerits to active merit sources, but I don't think that the assumption is right.
It's likely instant effects of both Default Trust change, new merit sources, and re-built mechanism on airdropped sMerits to merit sources.

Quote from: tranthidung on February 04, 2019, 05:35:19 AM

3 weeks later update:

Basic statistics:

Percent of changes:

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The instant effects look good because it has not come from abusements like we saw in September of 2018 with demotion of Junior Members who did not earn any merit.

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As usual the last week update.

lobcmt2

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I think that Legendary is enough, Elite badge sounds like over-rating.
I remembered that theymos rejected the idea. He only considered adding new badges for good reporters (last year), but by now, the type of badges has not added.

shahzadafzal

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Quote from: KingZee on January 29, 2019, 04:10:23 PM

What features would the next rank above Legendary come with? Signatures that make sound? Grin

Even now heroes and legendaries have exactly the same rights, so legendary is just the "step beyond". If you add one more rank above that, it should at least come with something new, just like VIPs and donators have a board where only them and mods can start threads. Something in between..

May be you are not aware... but there are so many "steps beyond" legendary rank.. once you turn legendary theymos is calling you personally... and after that if you perform good being legendary for couple of months, you are invited for an awesome dinner.. fully covered TA & DA. A Lamborghini comes to pick you up from the airport and takes you directly to the yatch boat where you get a chance to meet the "Legends of the legendary".

Trust me there is so much more beyond legendary and i can't reveal all the secrets here.. this information was personal shared with me by some one so have been legendary couple of times (don't ask me how?)

KingZee

sr. member

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What features would the next rank above Legendary come with? Signatures that make sound? Grin

Even now heroes and legendaries have exactly the same rights, so legendary is just the "step beyond". If you add one more rank above that, it should at least come with something new, just like VIPs and donators have a board where only them and mods can start threads. Something in between..

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