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mk4

legendary

Activity: 2870

Merit: 3873

Paldo.io 🤖

Quote from: Welsh on November 19, 2019, 05:42:34 AM

This merit abuse is unacceptable Wink

The art contest was obviously a ploy so that theymos could rank his alternate accounts up.

Goddamnit. Theymos back at it again with his army of alt accounts to spam the forum with the CryptoTalk signature campaign. *sigh*

fillippone

legendary

Activity: 2268

Merit: 16328

Fully fledged Merit Cycler - Golden Feather 22-23

Yet another proof quantitative easing, in any form it might be implemented, is a recipe for disaster.

LoyceV

legendary

Activity: 3290

Merit: 16489

Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021

Quote from: theymos on November 18, 2019, 11:17:31 PM

Code:

if($smerit+$source < $merits && $ID_MEMBER!=35)
    fatal_error("You do not have enough sendable merit.", false);

I guess the merit economy needed some emergency repo operations. Wink

@theymos: It looks like your "emergency update" broke things:

Quote from: sujonali1819 on November 19, 2019, 04:40:20 AM

Did anybody face any problem with merit that send by theymos for the 10th-anniversary contest? I have faced some problem when theymos sent me merits for second time that, I see, I received some merits in my merit history but when I click on the link of which post merited, But I can not find any merit on the post that send by theymos. I have also checked others' profiles for making me sure. But I also faced the same problem/error on others' profiles too.

The user above has received this from you:

Code:

Today at 04:25:17 AM: 3 from theymos for Re: 10th anniversary art contest
Today at 02:04:18 AM: 10 from theymos for Re: 10th anniversary art contest
November 18, 2019, 08:53:04 PM: 50 from theymos for Re: 10th anniversary art contest

These are the posts: 50 Merit, no Merit (instead of 10) from you, and 3 Merit from you again.

Update: it looks like it's fixed now.

fillippone

legendary

Activity: 2268

Merit: 16328

Fully fledged Merit Cycler - Golden Feather 22-23

Quote from: theymos on November 18, 2019, 11:17:31 PM

I guess the merit economy needed some emergency repo operations. Wink

You are the one to blame!
This is proper Quantitative Easing on Merit Economy!

Quote from: wwzsocki on November 19, 2019, 05:21:27 AM

It's the first time on the Bitcointalk forum that all members have the same chance to win several dozen merits for such an easy task.

Quote from: Welsh on November 19, 2019, 05:42:34 AM

This merit abuse is unacceptable Wink

The art contest was obviously a ploy so that theymos could rank his alternate accounts up.

We want hard/sound money, we want hard/sound merits!

I put here yet another smiley Wink

so we don't fall into the Poe's Law paradox

Welsh

staff

Activity: 3304

Merit: 4115

This merit abuse is unacceptable Wink

The art contest was obviously a ploy so that theymos could rank his alternate accounts up.

Quote from: mk4 on November 18, 2019, 11:34:47 PM

LOL that art thread definitely got too out of hand. A lot of users saw the high potential of them actually earning merit without having to make decent posts hence it's really not surprising that they're taking full advantage of it while the thread is still up and active until it gets old enough to be locked.

Goddamn that's a lot of merits though.

Yeah, its a one off thing though to sort of get the community involved with the anniversary so I think its an exception where we can reward users on art they've created instead of quality posts.

wwzsocki

legendary

Activity: 2744

Merit: 1708

First 100% Liquid Stablecoin Backed by Gold

Great opportunity for newbie accounts to get a nice chunk of merits and all they have to do is to create their own art about Bitcointal 10th anniversary.

There are still many newbies and junior accounts with not enough knowledge about BTC or any other cryptocurrencies and such a contest is a great chance even for a higher rank.

As we can see Theymos gives real nice merits awards to these pieces of art which were created by members personally and cost at least some effort.

It's the first time on the Bitcointalk forum that all members have the same chance to win several dozen merits for such an easy task.

fillippone

legendary

Activity: 2268

Merit: 16328

Fully fledged Merit Cycler - Golden Feather 22-23

Quote from: El duderino_ on November 19, 2019, 04:27:14 AM

Quote from: theymos on November 18, 2019, 09:08:43 PM

My head is going to explode, but I have to get through these... I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...

I didn't thought the pages would still be counting, but I think you gave to much time for the Art-thread

I woumd have gone for 10 days or something, 10 days to celebrate 10 amazing forum years Cheesy

Maybe i'm wrong, but this was a long period.

Longer periods allows for best art.
Art requires time.
Photoshop theme filling or low effort requires no time.
So in the end the choice to give more time was correct.

I guess the final BTC prize and the reference

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to a ton of merit, probably at least 500 in total

drew a lot of attention.

El duderino_

legendary

Activity: 2688

Merit: 13334

BTC + Crossfit, living life.

Quote from: theymos on November 18, 2019, 09:08:43 PM

My head is going to explode, but I have to get through these... I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...

I didn't thought the pages would still be counting, but I think you gave to much time for the Art-thread

I woumd have gone for 10 days or something, 10 days to celebrate 10 amazing forum years Cheesy

Maybe i'm wrong, but this was a long period.

Kalemder

legendary

Activity: 1918

Merit: 1727

Be A Hope

Quote from: theymos on November 18, 2019, 09:08:43 PM

My head is going to explode

He looks at each work in detail. This is both kind and fair. Thank you @Theymos

UserU

hero member

Activity: 2128

Merit: 532

FREE passive income eBook @ tinyurl.com/PIA10

Quote from: theymos on November 19, 2019, 12:20:13 AM

I'll finish this some other day.

Past page 61, I might not merit the really-low-effort photoshops/template-fills anymore.

You might wanna assign more staffs to go thru the designs with you. Those extra Merits might motivate them Cheesy

theymos

administrator

Activity: 5222

Merit: 13032

I'll finish this some other day.

Past page 61, I might not merit the really-low-effort photoshops/template-fills anymore.

UmerIdrees

hero member

Activity: 2436

Merit: 877

Breaking News:
There has been Merits Rain observed in BTT from last night and it look likes heavy rain will continue for next few days.

tranthidung

legendary

Activity: 2310

Merit: 4085

Farewell o_e_l_e_o

Quote from: mk4 on November 18, 2019, 11:34:47 PM

LOL that art thread definitely got too out of hand. A lot of users saw the high potential of them actually earning merit without having to make decent posts hence it's really not surprising that they're taking full advantage of it while the thread is still up and active until it gets old enough to be locked.

First, the art contest will end in next three days, then they will stop soon.

Quote from: theymos on October 17, 2019, 05:38:11 PM

The contest ends Nov 22 18:04:28 UTC; submissions after that are not guaranteed consideration. BTC will be sent all at once, probably a few hours after the end time.

Second, it is as same as the merit sytem, participants of the art contest have to submit good arts in order to receive merits as users have to make good posts to earn merits.

Quote from: LoyceMobile on November 18, 2019, 11:35:07 PM

Without a prize and Merit, it probably would have been.

Maybe it is not true because some jokes like April Fools also attracted them.

rhomelmabini

hero member

Activity: 2030

Merit: 578

No God or Kings, only BITCOIN.

Quote from: tranthidung on November 18, 2019, 10:42:18 PM

Personally I expect it will be somewhere around 8000 to 9000 (in the top ten of highest weeks).

I expect around 10k for the 10th anniversary.

Quote from: LoyceMobile on November 18, 2019, 11:35:07 PM

Without a prize and Merit, it probably would have been simple.

That's not all I guess because some want that awesome badge as well that'll be able to display on their profiles. So without further ado, I updated my submission reply for my third entry for public viewing, I keep it idle for days but I guess this is the best time to unveil it. Grin

Quote from: theymos on October 17, 2019, 05:38:11 PM

- Between 1 and 20 (depending on number of submissions) people will receive art contest recognition badges:

LoyceMobile

hero member

Activity: 1659

Merit: 687

LoyceV on the road. Or couch.

Quote from: theymos on November 18, 2019, 09:08:43 PM

I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...

Without a prize and Merit, it probably would have been.

mk4

legendary

Activity: 2870

Merit: 3873

Paldo.io 🤖

LOL that art thread definitely got too out of hand. A lot of users saw the high potential of them actually earning merit without having to make decent posts hence it's really not surprising that they're taking full advantage of it while the thread is still up and active until it gets old enough to be locked.

Goddamn that's a lot of merits though.

theymos

administrator

Activity: 5222

Merit: 13032

Quote from: tranthidung on November 18, 2019, 10:42:18 PM

Who knows at the end of today, theymos will write: "I am out of sMerits, please help me all merit sources!" Cheesy

Code:

if($smerit+$source < $merits && $ID_MEMBER!=35)
    fatal_error("You do not have enough sendable merit.", false);

I guess the merit economy needed some emergency repo operations. Wink

tranthidung

legendary

Activity: 2310

Merit: 4085

Farewell o_e_l_e_o

Quote from: theymos on November 18, 2019, 09:08:43 PM

My head is going to explode, but I have to get through these... I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...

I wonder that with the latest massive explosion in the 10th anniversary art contest, how high the upcoming spike in weekly merits will reach with the coming weekly merit data dump from theymos?

Here is the list of total weekly merits by now, sorting descendinly.

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. list merit week

     +-----------------+
     | merit      week |
     |-----------------|
  1. | 30960    2018w4 |
  2. | 19979    2018w5 |
  3. | 13313    2018w6 |
  4. | 11745    2018w7 |
  5. |  8833    2018w9 |
     |-----------------|
  6. |  8767    2018w8 |
  7. |  7837   2018w38 |
  8. |  7317   2018w11 |
  9. |  7261   2018w10 |
 10. |  6952   2018w12 |
     |-----------------|
 11. |  6744   2018w13 |
 12. |  6632    2019w2 |
 13. |  6423   2018w14 |
 14. |  6130   2019w13 |
 15. |  5644   2018w37 |
     |-----------------|
 16. |  5542   2019w42 |
 17. |  5494   2018w15 |
 18. |  5454   2019w19 |
 19. |  5354   2019w24 |
 20. |  5317    2019w3 |
     |-----------------|
 21. |  5271   2019w15 |
 22. |  5214   2019w20 |
 23. |  4975   2019w43 |
 24. |  4965   2018w18 |
 25. |  4929   2018w25 |
     |-----------------|
 26. |  4913   2019w10 |
 27. |  4829   2018w42 |
 28. |  4803    2019w1 |
 29. |  4766   2018w19 |
 30. |  4764   2019w18 |
     |-----------------|
 31. |  4742   2018w16 |
 32. |  4735   2019w45 |
 33. |  4730   2019w44 |
 34. |  4726   2019w25 |
 35. |  4688   2019w16 |
     |-----------------|
 36. |  4687   2019w23 |
 37. |  4667    2019w4 |
 38. |  4638    2019w9 |
 39. |  4612   2018w17 |
 40. |  4609   2019w12 |
     |-----------------|
 41. |  4580   2019w21 |
 42. |  4575   2018w47 |
 43. |  4565   2019w41 |
 44. |  4538   2018w23 |
 45. |  4526   2019w14 |
     |-----------------|
 46. |  4525   2018w45 |
 47. |  4521    2019w8 |
 48. |  4520   2019w38 |
 49. |  4491    2019w5 |
 50. |  4465   2018w26 |
     |-----------------|
 51. |  4448   2019w17 |
 52. |  4445   2019w22 |
 53. |  4395   2018w39 |
 54. |  4367   2019w26 |
 55. |  4357   2019w40 |
     |-----------------|
 56. |  4353   2018w20 |
 57. |  4332    2019w6 |
 58. |  4326   2019w11 |
 59. |  4318   2019w39 |
 60. |  4310   2018w40 |
     |-----------------|
 61. |  4278   2018w27 |
 62. |  4277   2019w29 |
 63. |  4247   2018w28 |
 64. |  4236   2019w33 |
 65. |  4225   2019w27 |
     |-----------------|
 66. |  4221    2019w7 |
 67. |  4194   2018w22 |
 68. |  4176   2019w30 |
 69. |  4167   2018w29 |
 70. |  4119   2019w28 |
     |-----------------|
 71. |  4043   2019w37 |
 72. |  4011   2018w32 |
 73. |  3953   2018w43 |
 74. |  3864   2018w21 |
 75. |  3863   2018w31 |
     |-----------------|
 76. |  3839   2018w24 |
 77. |  3816   2018w41 |
 78. |  3809   2019w36 |
 79. |  3805   2018w50 |
 80. |  3805   2018w34 |
     |-----------------|
 81. |  3769   2018w51 |
 82. |  3765   2018w48 |
 83. |  3747   2018w46 |
 84. |  3661   2018w30 |
 85. |  3631   2018w33 |
     |-----------------|
 86. |  3622   2019w34 |
 87. |  3590   2018w36 |
 88. |  3571   2018w49 |
 89. |  3549   2019w31 |
 90. |  3540   2019w35 |
     |-----------------|
 91. |  3347   2018w44 |
 92. |  3338   2018w52 |
 93. |  3207   2019w32 |
 94. |  3072   2018w35 |
     +-----------------+

Quote from: tranthidung on November 17, 2019, 10:14:04 PM

Intra-week merits (from 24/1/2018 to 11/11/2019)
Last two days dropped due to incomplete weeks (2019w46)

< snip >

Time series plot

This is a difficult question but I am sure that this week we will see total merits distributed much higher than 4521 - that is the median of total intra-week merits (over 94 weeks since the birthday of merit system).

Personally I expect it will be somewhere around 8000 to 9000 (in the top ten of highest weeks).

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- 50% of observed weeks (94 weeks) have total intra-week merits above 4521, whilst the rest 50% of them have total intra-week merits below 4521. 4521 is the median - p50.

Who knows at the end of today, theymos will write: "I am out of sMerits, please help me all merit sources!" Cheesy

Deathwing

legendary

Activity: 1638

Merit: 1329

Stultorum infinitus est numerus

Quote from: theymos on November 18, 2019, 09:08:43 PM

My head is going to explode, but I have to get through these... I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...

Fun thing is that, after you write this comment you just nonchalantly continue spreading merit one after another. Congratulations on breaking the 2000 merits in one day mark (As of my post, theymos has sent 2055 merits in total since he started the spree). Also, huge congrats to the people who received it.

theymos

administrator

Activity: 5222

Merit: 13032

My head is going to explode, but I have to get through these... I thought an art contest would be nice and simple...

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