Quote from: coin5haker on March 07, 2018, 03:56:20 PM

does it mean people getting short of sMerits? Or trying to give less?
I would like to see the spread of merits among the users.

Quote from: Coffee_Lover on March 08, 2018, 06:02:10 AM

Were they fed up in giving merits? Were they exhausted? Can't they find quality posts now? Or what? So members like me will be informed about their reasons and expectations for me to have merit/s.

Thank you for your appreciation.
This is based on my opinion but as what I see both of your question is could be answered by YES; People are getting short of sMerits and trying to give less. However, I have no proof how much remaining sMerits are left in each account to tell they are giving less.

Quote from: CodyAlfaridzi on March 07, 2018, 03:58:28 PM

How could there be 64 unique staff accounts, 15 global mods, and 3 admin? I think the numbers are a bit off. There are only about 30 staffs, 4 global mods, and 2 admins (well it's 3 if you count theymos_away).

Thank you for your appreciation.
The count includes theymos; Ill better manually check those numbers next time.

Quote from: Saint-loup on March 07, 2018, 04:22:50 PM

We don't know in which sections are given the most smerits?

Thank you for that suggestion, Im working on that. Ill update you once finished.

Quote from: addeqt on March 08, 2018, 04:34:55 AM

I am just wondering if those are send merits who among received those merits.

Thank you for your appreciation.
Yeah, youre right, Ill do it next time. For the moment, I have another post which shows the number of member getting merits and their ratio. You can see it in this link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3071785

Quote from: romanovst on March 08, 2018, 10:35:36 AM

We really need to increase the number of merits in circulation. We should not create a situation where members do not have enough merits to send to a deserving person. I have seen merit giveaway threads where the member starting the thread had to lock it as his Smerits got spend on initial applicants. In order to increase the merits in circulation- two things can be done. First is increasing the number of merit sources. Admin added some but they are not sufficient. Another option is to increase the number of merits given to each merit source per month.

They are already into that. They are continuously looking for members who could be a possible merit sources.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2852479.msg31327729#msg31327729
There are even list of applicants which you can found here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2823944.0
There is another list but I cant find it at the moment.

Quote from: tbct_mt2 on March 08, 2018, 10:37:14 AM

Average figures don't tell us the truth in some cases, especially if the distributions of target variables are not normal. Even for cases which have normal distribution, we have to present both mean and +/- standard deviations.
In contrast, for those cases which have non-normal distributions, we have to use median and interquartile range.
I will highly appreciate anyone help to transfer data from the forum to excell, which I can use Stata software for analysis.

Thank you for your appreciation, comments and suggestion.
Ill better include those figures next time. By the way I sent a PM to you for the Excel version of the file. Happy Analyzing!