How is this calculated?
Pay attention to this formula. If you understand this formula then you will know how generous you are to get into the top 200 list in this thread.
GENEROSITY = SENT_MERITS - ceil(RECEIVED_MERITS / 2)
I tried to explain it for you. In January you have earned 82 merit and send 42 merit. So the GENEROSITY you have based on the formula above is.
GENEROSITY = 42 - (82 / 2)
42 - 41 = 1
GENEROSITY= 1
So, for January you are not included in the top 200 because there are more users who have 3 GENEROSITY. And now you can do it yourself to find out how generous you were in February based on the same formula. Good luck.
The more smerit you send in a month compared to the merit you earn, the better your chances of making it to the top 200 list. This means that if you have been designated a merit source, we are more likely to find out from this table.
That's an interesting way of framing the matter, Falconer... In other words, this whole thread was not really created in order to figure out "how generous" a member might be, but instead to attempt to identify merit source members and to attempt to decipher if they are generous within their allocated source amounts - to the extent that needed to be inferred rather than known directly.
Some of us might not even be very generous, literally speaking, but if we are spending more smerits than we earn - on a regular basis, we are going to show up on the monthly results in this thread.. and surely, in the early days, there were some members who had been designated as merit sources and really did not appreciate sending out merits to other members, and some of them even stated that they either had really high standards or some kind of opposition to sending out smerits.. and not even saying that those members were bad people, they may just have not fit very well into the performance of sending out smerits.... .sometimes it is not an easy task. .and sometimes I am even bit in the butt with my tending NOT to send too many smerits per post.. I used to be only within 1-3 smerits per post then I moved up to 1-5 but still rarely go beyond 3 smerits in a post. It might be my own handicap that I need to overcome.. ..
With the passage of time, it seems that theymos has removed those members from serving as merit sources who seem to have difficulties sending smerits.. and I surely there are some various ways that source members have evolved over time in the way that they send out smerits, and even if theymos has not been too frequent in his adjustments, there still seems to be some kind of use it or lose it philosophy that underlies the continuance of merit source duties... ... I had frequently considered that theymos might have considered a kind of rotation of merit sources, but that might end up overly complicating matters more than warranted in order to overcome any deficiencies that he might perceive to exist within the whole merit system as it has evolved, perhaps? ... are we just living within an extended April fools joke? hahahahaaha