Topic: One year anniversary of merit system (Read 1241 times)

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The merit system introduction was a big shock to btt members. Millions of account was put to newbie without notice. There was a big catastrophic in the system that affected the highly rank account. Remembering it, its like remembering past wound of many. All the same we gat to celebrate it yearly cos we now have quality post that worth reading

ABSTRACT

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Intra-day merits:
Notes:
- The part of the asbstract describes figures of intraday merits over the period from 19/2/2018 to 29/7/2019 (truncated dataset);
- Days from 24/1/2018 to 18/2/2018 truncated due to highly potential outliers; and days after 29/7/2019 truncated as well due to incomplete week (the 2019w31);
- Statistics presented in the post are for truncated dataset

(1) Potential outliers are days that have intraday total merits beyond 193 or 1101;
(2) Median of intraday merits over the period is 637;
(3) 50% of observed days have their intra-day merits range from 533 to 760 (the interquartile range);
(4) Friday [in GTM time] is the day over weeks has lowest intraday merits in terms of both median and mean, at 584, and 612, respectively.
(5) Monday [in GTM time] is the day over weeks has highest intraday merits in terms of median and mean, at 682, and 741.
(6) There are 29 potential outliers in total, and only five of them occured in 2019, on 09/1/2019, 14/01/2019, 27/3/2019, 13/5/2019, and 11/6/2019, at 1162, 1128, 1250, 1151, and 1188, respectively.
(7) Minimum and maximum of intraday merits (full dataset) are 313 and 13018, on 11/2/2019 and 24/1/2018, respectively.

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Intra-week merits:
Notes:
The part of the abstract use full dataset, only dropped last two days due to incomple week (2019w31).

(1)   The median of intra-week merits is 4526;
(2)   50% of observed weeks (79 weeeks in total), have total merits in the range from 4167 to 5271 (the interquaritle range of intra-week merits).
(3)   Minimum and maximum of intra-week merits are 3072 and 30960, in 2018w35, and 2018w4, respectively;
(4)   Ten potential outliers [beyond 2511 or 6927], all of them occurred in the year 2018.

Intra-month merits:
Notes:
The part of the abstract use full dataset (no day dropped).

(1)   The median of intra-month merits is 20408;
(2)   50% of observed months (19 months in total), have total merits in the range from 18149 to 22994 (the interquaritle range of intra-month merits).
(3)   Minimum and maximum of intra-month merits are 15443 and 46701, in 2018m12, and 2018m2, respectively;
(4)   Three potential outliers [beyond 10882 or 30262], all of them occurred in the year 2018.

This thought occurred to me recently:

If you wanted to implement Merit in a decentralized forum (ie. one in the vein of Freenet's Frost or FMS), you could do it in this way:
 - Everyone can, from their own perspective, give unlimited merit to posts, and these merit transactions are put into files which each user publishes via the decentralized system. (Like a merit.txt.xz which every user publishes.) Unlike on bitcointalk.org, you can also give people merit without an associated post.
 - For everyone who has merit, you download their merit-transactions-list, but scale down/up all of the numbers so that the total merit that they send is equal to the actual sMerit that they own. It might or might not be useful to do this via some sliding time frame scheme so that merit transaction amounts aren't just continually diminished over time as they increase in quantity.
 - Apply the above step recursively, creating a web-of-trust-style merit network

Then every user has a subjective merit score for each post (sort of like the bitcointalk.org trust system, which was inspired by FMS). And if you wish, you can assign people to be merit sources from your perspective by sending them large amounts of merit directly; these might or might not appear in the merit-transactions-list which you publish.

The latest expansion of merit sources increased total merit sources from 123 to 130 (after the withdrawal of @Vod weeks ago).
One year anniversary of merit system
On 24th Jan. 2019, total merit sources are:
After checking (today), I saw that after the biggest latest change, there are 130 merit sources, but today I checked and found that we already have 131 merit sources in total (one new merit source added, but don't know when it was added)

I don't think that you can earn merits by your post like this.
You should compose it better, in sentence structure, at least.
I don't discuss about your ideas here.

Furthermore, your post history shown the reasons why you almost has not earned merits via your posts, by now.

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Welcome to my topic, namely Tracking the difference of merit circulations with Default Trust Changes
In short:
Let's see when the effects of Default Trust changes tails off.

It's a great feeling ranking up in the new system.

As an average poster with no skill in data analysis, merit analysis etc it was a thing of joy knowing my little contribution to the forum was appreciated and i have ranked up earning over 100+merit so please don't call us fools.

For you merit means nothing but for some of us it does mean something. Never insult that man celebrating his $100 salary because you own $10,000

You only appreciate yourself when you know what you want through before you received those merit. It's a great feeling ranking up in the new system. As an average poster with no skill in data analysis, merit analysis etc it was a thing of joy knowing my little contribution to the forum was appreciated and i have ranked up earning over 100+merit so please don't call us fools. For you merit means nothing but for some of us it does mean something. Never insult that man celebrating his $100 salary because you own $10,000

I have 1404 Merit but obviously only 404 of those are earnt. Even for me as a Legendary Member I’m not ashamed to say it is disheartening seeing a growing number of people on 2000+ Merit whilst I struggle along on 404.

Overall the Merit system is an excellent addition to the forum but it does kind of favour the elite posters not the average to good which there are more of.

Merit = subjective gamed nonsense. I know legends with less than 80 earned merit that could destroy all but a tiny few of the "high cycled merit" crowd in any debate or discussion. Their value here is magnitudes greater than most of self congratulating fools here in meta. FACT

By now, the most intesting things I witnessed around one year after the start of merit system are:
- Campaigns tend to requires minimum earned merits to join.
- Campaigns' managers tend to choose candidates with more earned merits in last 120-day period.
- Even shitty higher ranked users (Full Members, Senior Members, and higher) that have not earned single merits after more than one year will hardly have odds to get acceptance from campaigns' managers. It's amazing impacts of merit system.  

Sometimes, I saw shitty higher ranked users with no single merit earned, they will be rejected from campaigns for sure.

Overall the Merit system is an excellent addition to the forum but it does kind of favour the elite posters not the average to good which there are more of.