I can find one reason behind the creation of such threads. Although I don't have any data, it’s easy to speculate that the ratio of merit between post:thread is quite high. If the maximum number of merits in a thread is 100 (assume), it will be 20 for a post.
I can not answered your question but some stats for you. There are 82141 topics received merits and the for those merited topics, the median of received merits is 3, interquartile range is 1 to 7. By that I meant 50% of merited topics have their receive merits range from 1 to 7. Min and max values are 1 and 61984. The max value belong to Wall Observer thread.Code:
variable | N mean sd p50 p25 p75 min max
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emerit_topic | 82141.0 9.9 235.8 3.0 1.0 7.0 1.0 61984.0
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About posts received merits inside each thread, here you go:
Code:
variable | N mean sd p50 p25 p75 min max
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nposts | 82141.0 3.3 105.2 1.0 1.0 2.0 1.0 29399.0
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Interquartile range: 1 - 2
Min - max: 1 - 29399
What does it mean? 50% of merited threads have number of merited posts range from 1 to 2 (with the median is at 1). This one does not take into account how many posts are made in each thread (I only have data for merited topics and merited posts).
Top-50 most merit-earned topics month, year (2018 - 2020)
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That’s why newbies motivated to create new thread but; the problem is almost all the threads are unnecessary and surprisingly some of high rank member still post their.
There's nothing wrong with creating thread IMO but they should be enough informative, they should be on good discussion. Apart from that, I guess this board should be moderated heavily specially on creating threads.
There's nothing wrong with creating thread IMO but they should be enough informative, they should be on good discussion. Apart from that, I guess this board should be moderated heavily specially on creating threads.
- They get motivation from merited topics and try to do the same thing.
- They do neither know Search nor how to use it effectively
- They know Search and how to use but skip all and create topics because they like to do it.
