Topic: [Statistics] OgNasty's Merit Faucet - page 2. (Read 625 times)

I'd have found it more interesting if you listed which users are still active here (but since you did it all by hand I'm not sure that's as worthwhile).

No one could've become a legendary member in that time afaik (unless they were a newbie for a while and then suddenly got merits).

100 and 500 merits are actually a lot, those 3 users since then would've had to average 1 merit a day to get to hero already.


A lot of people interested in the technology probably linger here as a guest too (and maybe make a thread when they find something interesting - and potentially a new account with it) so I think that'd be hard to track.

I don't know about OgNasty and what happened with him in the past. I only talk about him, his contribution from my experience. Honestly, OgNasty has made some good initiatives to educate people about Bitcoin. This way, he truly is a Bitcoiner. Educational initiatives are good to boost Bitcoin adoption and not only this, education will help people to have better knowledge and be safer in crypto.

• [Merit] Hey Newbies! Can You Sign A Message?
• [Merit] Hey Bitcoiners! Can You Send Encrypted Messages?. I like this one more than the above one. It is more challenging for newbies.

Very interesting thread (and nice presentation of your findings as well), OP.  I wasn't aware of OgNasty's merit "faucet" so this is the first I'm hearing of its history and how the members who participated in it have fared on the forum since doing so. 

Looks like Timelord2067 tried to call Og out as being dishonest, and I'll put all of the other accusations of the same aside and just assume that there were a lot of members who tried to take advantage of his merit giveaway by using alt accounts--a conclusion which you came to yourself.  It seems likely that that would happen, since lower-ranked members have been clamoring to get merits right from the start, even going so far as to buy them on social media sites.

I'm not sure what the dropout rate is for members joining the forum, i.e., how long newbies remain active before going dormant, but I bet it's pretty high.  In fact, I would think it's fairly high for most forums.  I've joined quite a few in my lifetime, but there are only about two that I'm still active on, with bitcointalk being one of them.

Almost two years ago the user OgNasty created a thread/topic on Beginners & Help in order to give merit to newbies and Juniors who proved to be able to sign a message with a Bitcoin address. I don't talk to OgNasty but I assume he took this iniciative to spread merits and help others to learn something new and useful within the crypto world.

Some time has passed and I took the liberty to gather some data from that thread/topic in order to see how these kind of "merit Faucets" may affect the development or growth of a population of users (Newbies) or whether these kinds of opportunities only attract low value users for this forum. Here are the results I have found so far.



- 209 Users participated on the thread/topic and 111 of them were merited by OP, each of them received between 2 and 4 merits. Importan to note I did not consider merits provided by others here. About 47% of Newbies who summited their signed message did not receive merits while 53% did, those who did not receive merit seemed to have failed to sign their massage correctly, were suspected to be merit farmers/spammers or were of a rank above Jr. Member.

-OP distributed 301 merits to Newbies /Juniors.




- After almost two years from the beginning of the merit distribution some of the Newbies who participated have grown to become more active and in some cases more valuable members of this forum, while others did not. In general, nowadays those Newbies are today:

Newbie [84]
Jr.Member [45]
Member [55]
Full Member [13]
Sr. Member [9]
Hero Member [3]
Legendary[0]


-Here we can see the nowadays distribution of those users who have participated on the faucet in terms of whether they remain a newbie or junior to this day.



-Here is the list of users that have participated so far and attempted to sign a message with their adresses:



-I have taken the comments of @jackg  in consideration and added a graph summarizing the amount of users who participate on the merit faucet and have participated on the forum within a year (Since June 2021). In total 171 users have participated this year and 38 have not.


I may consider to add a thinner time period when I have more spare time to do so, which logically will decrease de percentage of users considered to be active.

Here's the list of the active ones under the presented conditions.



-I am leaving a link to the spread-sheet I have used for this little statistic research, in case anyone of you want to verify the information or perhaps let me know some error I commited (I have gathered this information manually).

Here is the Google Drive Link


-I shall present you my personal conclusions I have reached through the making of this thread/topic:

1) OgNasty has smerits to spare  
2) Knowing that about 38% of the people who participated are Members now (and beyond) it is save to say these kind of threads/topics are not only sought for spammers, but also for future good member of this community.
3) I did not personally checked the signatures of the participants of the merit faucet, so this small study would not be very accurate to know the percentage of people who managed to sign a message correctly. Notheless, if we assume those merited by OgNasty were the only ones which managed to do so this percentage would be as well about 53%, but clearly some cheaters may have signed correctly without receiving the reward.

Please feel free to let us know your own conlusions on these results!  



-Here are the sources of information and tools I have used for all this

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/merit-hey-newbies-can-you-sign-a-message-5300698 (Data)
https://fontmeme.com/es/fuentes-pixeladas/   (Letters)
Microsoft(R) Excell(TM) 2016  (Processing of information and graphs)
https://ninjastic.space/