Topic: TIL Activity does not work on precisely 2 week intervals + interval timings - page 17. (Read 39960 times)
May 30, 2014, 12:30:59 AM
Essentially this flaw in the system is so insignificant it probably won't matter in the long run. Not worth messing around with now at least.
May 29, 2014, 05:26:37 PM
Why put so much time starting a thread and doing the math on such a trivial amount of lost activity? Seems like there is something better you could have done with that time... Either way thanks for sharing your findings and I hope your math is right or you owe me an apology for wasting my time, lol.
TBH, using a spreadsheet you can do it very quickly. Probably took him at the most 10 minutes.
May 07, 2014, 09:47:42 AM
Why put so much time starting a thread and doing the math on such a trivial amount of lost activity? Seems like there is something better you could have done with that time... Either way thanks for sharing your findings and I hope your math is right or you owe me an apology for wasting my time, lol.
People do things that are not really always needed the most. Curiosity is a strange thing. But because of that we are richer in experience. Good job op!
April 25, 2014, 05:47:39 AM
TIL activity doesn't really matter
April 25, 2014, 04:12:37 AM
Why put so much time starting a thread and doing the math on such a trivial amount of lost activity? Seems like there is something better you could have done with that time...
Unemployment is high these days…
April 25, 2014, 03:31:26 AM
Why put so much time starting a thread and doing the math on such a trivial amount of lost activity? Seems like there is something better you could have done with that time... Either way thanks for sharing your findings and I hope your math is right or you owe me an apology for wasting my time, lol.
April 25, 2014, 03:22:02 AM
I have got to start posting. I can't stand it when I see these Newbies and Jr. Members with >500 posts. I mean my posts and activity are almost always equal after the 5 minute update. How in the hell can I not be posting more? Maybe I should stop reading the forum and just start posting that seems what every one else is doing. Dammit, I am a failure to bitcointalk forum.
April 24, 2014, 12:33:06 PM
Oh no, we're losing out on so much activity 
Nobody really cares or should care about activity, to be honest. UNIX timestamps are accurate in all time-zones and they're just an easy-to-implement digit, so it's easy to see why they're used.
Nobody really cares or should care about activity, to be honest. UNIX timestamps are accurate in all time-zones and they're just an easy-to-implement digit, so it's easy to see why they're used. April 24, 2014, 07:32:26 AM
Apparently , the activity changes every 1210000 units of the UNIX timestamp.
This equates to 14 days , 6 minutes , 40 seconds.
This means , after 3026 2 week periods , you would expect to gain 42364 activity.
But no , you would get only 42350 activity.
TLDR; Every 116 years you will lose out on 14 activity. Sad right ?
In order to make this thread more productive, here are some of the next timings :-
( All times in GMT )
7/7/2015 11:53:20
7/21/2015 12:00:00
8/4/2015 12:06:40
8/18/2015 12:13:20
9/1/2015 12:20:00
9/15/2015 12:26:40
Here is a list of all the ACCURATE start dates of the 14 day periods till 2060 !
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12saLhlUoqIdairxzuSPu6EYGrt7FN2lOstO1yDjCEbA
FAQs of the Activity system
(All of these can be found stickied in the Meta , but just in case)
Q : How is activity calculated ?
The activity number is determined in this way:
time = number of two-week periods in which you've posted since your registration
activity = min(time * 14, posts)
Q : Help ! My activity (or rank) has not activated yet , even though I have sufficient posts and have posted in sufficient time periods !
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Outdated. It occasionally takes much longer to update, but still an hour on average
This equates to 14 days , 6 minutes , 40 seconds.
This means , after 3026 2 week periods , you would expect to gain 42364 activity.
But no , you would get only 42350 activity.
TLDR; Every 116 years you will lose out on 14 activity. Sad right ?
In order to make this thread more productive, here are some of the next timings :-
( All times in GMT )
7/7/2015 11:53:20
7/21/2015 12:00:00
8/4/2015 12:06:40
8/18/2015 12:13:20
9/1/2015 12:20:00
9/15/2015 12:26:40
Here is a list of all the ACCURATE start dates of the 14 day periods till 2060 !
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12saLhlUoqIdairxzuSPu6EYGrt7FN2lOstO1yDjCEbA
FAQs of the Activity system
(All of these can be found stickied in the Meta , but just in case)
Q : How is activity calculated ?
The activity number is determined in this way:
time = number of two-week periods in which you've posted since your registration
activity = min(time * 14, posts)
Q : Help ! My activity (or rank) has not activated yet , even though I have sufficient posts and have posted in sufficient time periods !
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Outdated. It occasionally takes much longer to update, but still an hour on average
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