The only (possible) downside to this suggestion is that it will probably make unmasking of the merit sources easier.
Theymos didn't want to publish the list, because it could result in them being pestered for merits...
Topic: Request: Merit history downloadable as raw data - page 2. (Read 721 times)
I think this is a good suggestion.
Personally I don't like the new Merit system but... If it's supposed to continue, we should be sure no one will make shady things
Personally I don't like the new Merit system but... If it's supposed to continue, we should be sure no one will make shady things
- The script must override the logging in and parse the HTML. This can change at any time and the script would stop working
What is this supposed to be? I just see this:
I just converted the page to a file like thisBut it's unreliable as I explained in my previous post.
(And you're not really being helpful by just posting the result of the conversion. It could have been done manually for all I know)
- The script must override the logging in and parse the HTML. This can change at any time and the script would stop working
What is this supposed to be? I just see this:
I just converted the page to a file like thisyou want Real-time data or just txt file "manually updated"
I want raw data updated every specif amount of time, every day, week, whatever makes sense, so that third party scripts can download it regularly without overloading bitcointalk's server and knowing no data is lost.it’s easy to make .txt file from pages like https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=topusersat.
I'm more interested in this, actually: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=recentI wouldn't say easy, but yes it's possible. There are a few problems about doing that though:
- The script must override the logging in and parse the HTML. This can change at any time and the script would stop working
- Because there's no specif amount of time after which the data is updated, the script must download the data regularly, very often. This can cause problems with the anti-DDos system
- If the script downloads data from here, it doesn't know immediately who received the Merit. It would need to open every post to see who the author is, causing a lot of traffic and, again, having problems with the DDoS system
Providing raw data (like this) is by far the best solution.
I'm willing to write a Merit script and generate some stats, but I'm really not willing to do so when it represents so much work and knowing it will stop working at any time.
you download it from here https://file.io/LOKibO
What is this supposed to be? I just see this:Quote
{"success":false,"error":404,"message":"Not Found"}
I know that admins don't have time to analyse this and would appreciate help from the community. We wouldn't have to rely on people spotting and reporting possible cases of merit trading and could do it ourselves. I've seen some posts where people were getting 50 merit from a single account all at once which is at the very least suspicious. A list of merit activity would allow us to clearly see what's going on all around the forum. I'd expect most merit trading to be happening in the local boards and if you delete the merited post all visible trace is lost.
This would be especially useful in early days of implementation of the system, to detect cases of blatant abuse.
Yes, definitely! And also in the long-term to have better stats, to both keep us informed and to help improving it.
I don't think it would be too difficult to provide the data, and it will allow all sorts of development.
This is a very good idea. People can use the raw data to generate statistics they need.
This would be especially useful in early days of implementation of the system, to detect cases of blatant abuse.
This would be especially useful in early days of implementation of the system, to detect cases of blatant abuse.
Bumping this as I think it's a good idea. I'd also like to see more stats rather than just the top 50 for each category.
I already posted this on the official Merit thread. However it just got a couple of comments and then got buried.
So I'm re-posting it here. I really think this would be useful:
I'd like to see a link to download raw data regarding the latest merit activity.
Basically this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=recent but as txt, json, csv or similar format including name/id of sender, name/id of receiver and post ID.
When the DT was provided as text some interesting processing was possible.
With merit raw data we could easily write scripts to find suspicious activity, to show it graphically, advanced stats, among other things.
So I'm re-posting it here. I really think this would be useful:
I'd like to see a link to download raw data regarding the latest merit activity.
Basically this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=recent but as txt, json, csv or similar format including name/id of sender, name/id of receiver and post ID.
When the DT was provided as text some interesting processing was possible.
With merit raw data we could easily write scripts to find suspicious activity, to show it graphically, advanced stats, among other things.
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