Topic: Trivia: 100000th merited post (Read 830 times)

Technically the same person could have merited multiple posts of the same author on the same board, right? It narrows it down a lot but it's not a direct pointer to a specific post.

I have to say though that I made that statement without looking at how many other posts would match that, and it turns out - not many, particularly if you consider the date range:

https://bpip.org/smerit.aspx?to=mprep&from=bones261

On the other hand, even without knowing the recipient hosseinimr93 was able to figure out the exact post.

No, i got it straight from the initial clue, WO participant + not active recently , bones was literally the first name that came to my mind.

Was bones a merit source at that time? I thought one would have a better chance to send the 100kth merit.

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This got me puzzled though...if we knew the sender and recipient, and the board, why wouldn't be able to identify the post?

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Anyway, good project sir!!! When bounty 2?  

That's right, that was the other potential piece of information I was referring to.

Well done and well deserved.

Let's all wish o_e_l_e_o a speedy recovery after the lightning strike and the beating he's gonna get from Foxpup.

Thank you suchmoon for this enjoyable contest.
You are really creative.

Honestly, I couldn't find the answer if I didn't know the merit sender is bones261. Thank you morvillz7z or I didn't know 180,000 posts have been merited.

It's about 1 year and 11 months the merit system has been implemented. So, I expected that post to be made on January 2019.

I checked merits sent by bones261 in that month considering 2 facts:
1. bones261 should be the only user that have merited that post. (Read this post.)
2. The merit receiver should be well-known.

I checked many posts. If there were no other user that had merited the post, I visited the profile of merit receiver to check whether he has made many posts in Altcoin sections or not.
I didn't found any qualified post until I saw the merit sent to mprep.
I was sure mprep is the well-known user suchmoon was talking about.

This was fun!!

Good job hosseinimr93 however you found it exactly..

I'll have you know I didn't edit my post, I was just borrowing Foxpup's time machine.

We have a winner, congratulations hosseinimr93!

Here is the 100000th post: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.49160405

Thank you all for participating!

Below is the logic behind my hints, let me know if you consider any of them misleading - I'm open to sending additional merits if I screwed something up.

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I mean who is known in altcoin boards without posting much there, if not the moderator? Who is known even to those who don't visit the altcoin boards - I mean he even authored the rules thread pinned here in Meta!

hugeblack - intentionally or not - had the right idea and got another hint:


o_e_l_e_o got it right but I disqualified him for making two attempts and for editing the post, which produced another hint that was probably too vague to be of any use. Or perhaps it confused matters even more because o_e_l_e_o asked about cheating for another reason and then I said "I'll let it slide" so some of you may have thought he couldn't be the cheater.

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Meta is quite popular and merit is a popular topic here so eddie13 got this with a scattershot, which is what I expected with that hint. Another keyword that would have worked is "video", possibly some others, but "merit" was the most likely one by a mile, even if not the most accurate.

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Not sure how morvillz7z figured this out, perhaps the second hint helped:

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Here is how I determined the 100000th post:

Took all merited posts and the timestamps of when those posts received their first merit. Sorted by the timestamp and took #100000 in that list.

DdmrDdmr and LoyceV got the same result, with DdmrDdmr being quicker therefore winning the unofficial contest of forum bots because of a clear technological advantage (hint: SQL).

Merit sender: bones261
Merit receiver: mprep

For this post:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.49160405

nutildah?

Lauda

bones261 -> theymos -> account recoveries ?

I'm praying to be back on my couch about now.

It must be right under our noses.

Blast! I totally forgot about nullius! I'll get back to working on my newt cure immediately.

nullius

I'm still on my couch, just saying....

That's between the cheater and the Almighty who is no doubt striking the poor sod with a lightning at this very moment. (not to be construed as a hint of any kind)


And a metric ton of other hints, what is taking you all so long!!!  

Bones merited Welsh's post on censorship? 

And "someone" is a well-known forum member (this was the first hint).

Who's this cheater

So basically bones merited someone (actmyname) on Meta for thread/post about Merit  approx a year ago.
This is what I came up with till now with my poor English.

Bones didn't merit anyone in the recipes thread..