Then I traced and used the last merit data update from LoyceV to have some statistics:
- Active status
- Sent & earned merits.
According to [1], there are 153 VIPs/ donators in total.
Sample size: 153 cases.
The percentages for VIPs and donators are 24.8% and 75.2%, respectively.
Active status:
The active status based on the period from the last log-in day to till today.
- Active: <= 90 (days)
- Extremely inactive: > 90 - <= 365
- Abandoned: > 365
Generally, 58.2% of them likely abandoned the forum, whilst 18.3% are extremely inactive, and 23.5% are actively on the forum.
Over groups (VIPs and donators), the percentages of abandoned ones are nearly the same in two groups, 57.9% for VIPs and 58.3% for donators. For extremely inactive ones in VIP-group are higher than in the donator-group at 23.7% and 16.5%, respectively.
The percentage of active ones in VIP-group is 18.4%, that is much lower than the figure of 25.2% for the donator-group.
See bar charts below for details.
Sent & earned merits:
Generally, 64.7% (99 cases) not sent / earned a single merit, 26.8% (41 cases) earned only, 0.7% (1 case) sent only, and 7.8% (12 cases) both earned and sent at least a single merit so far.
Over groups (VIPs/ donators), the figures for values of merit status between two groups are unsignificantly different.
See bar charts for details.
Other notes:
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| userid username newusername notes |
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1. | 67058 TradeFortress red trusted flagged |
2. | 10310 MemoryDealers red trusted flagged |
3. | 59549 deeplink new rank - Hero member? |
4. | 58464 Blitzboom new rank - Brand new? |
5. | 35827 pirateat40 OldScammerTag |
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6. | 26841 PatrickHarnett OldScammerTag |
7. | 16160 shakaru OldScammerTag |
8. | 40345 cryptoxchange OldScammerTag |
9. | 61033 Alwaysmining OldScammerTag |
10. | 60038 RustyRyan OldScammerTag |
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11. | 54967 BitAvenue R- OldScammerTag |
12. | 11921 Kris Hacked |
13. | 10804 cablepair Hacked |
14. | 55464 packet7 arby Hacked |
15. | 18021 BTC_Bear JusticeForYou Hacked |
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16. | 52366 BadBitcoin BadBitcoin (James Sutton) Hacked |
17. | 78443 johnascii 4 active days |
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Trust status:
VIP group has higher figures for negative trustscores. Of course, each trust score (negative or positive) does not represent same level of severity but at least statistics below can give us an acceptable overview.
I much appreciated help from SFR10, DdmrDdmr, and LoyceV.