Quote from: DdmrDdmr on August 30, 2018, 04:14:15 PM

Nullius has the longest streak to date, having received sMerit for 31 days in a row, totalling 518 sMerits during that streak. LoyceV falls short by only 4 days, having a streak of 27 days

And there I was, thinking I overtook nullius on Merit (even though it took me more than twice as long). It turns out he found a way to be on top again without even logging in!

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All these three top streaks were achieved during the early days of the Merit System.

All jokes aside, nice list! I recognize most usernames in the top 50; the subsection top has mainly unknown names.
It's very time consuming to continuously produce high quality posts, and even when you do you won't receive Merit every day. That does explain why the longest streaks were close to the introduction of Merit, when more users had more sMerit to give.

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Nevertheless, the Member segment does not follow the trend, as it outperforms the ranks above it by having noticeably more streaks of 2 days in a row as the maximum streak for its segment.

Could this be due to merit trading? Say someone buys 10 Merit to become Member, and receives them on a few different days to avoid detection? To test this hypothesis: can you add a line to the table (number 4.) for Members who received exactly 10, 11 or 12 Merit?
I would expect this new category to have more streaks, and the remaining Members will have less streaks.

Quote from: cabalism13 on August 30, 2018, 04:41:58 PM

Majority of accounts on these list are known people from Bitcointalk. I wonder when will someone shows and stood up against those Wink

You make it sound as if it's a bad thing to be on this list. I wish much more people would stand up to join this list, because that means this forum is getting better.

Quote from: Harlot on August 30, 2018, 04:57:35 PM

I don't think that his record is unbreakable, remember LoyceV on fell short of only 4 days which is really near and LoyceV is also very active in the forum currently

Thanks for the confidence, but it's unlikely to happen. My second longest streak was in August, and reached only 15 days. I don't think it's very likely to reach 27 again, let alone 31. Unless the total Merit distribution and thus the chance of each post to receive Merit goes up significantly.

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he is also a merit source which means that there is a high chance that the one he has sent the merits to has a certain influence on returning back the favor.

I think (and hope) this doesn't happens often. Most of the time I give 1 Merit only, and 0.5 sMerit isn't enough to be returned.
By this logic, suchmoon should be the most merited person, as he's distributed 6 times more Merit than I did.

Quote from: hilariousetc on August 30, 2018, 05:47:53 PM

C'mon, fuckers. Don't make me merit myself from my main account and get negbombed Grin

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I'm confused, are you merit begging your Global Moderator alt? Lol Cheesy

Quote from: hilariousetc on September 03, 2018, 12:26:45 PM

I've given a few merits out to people who I didn't agree with, but they've certainly made the effort or put their point across articulately.

On rare occasions, I didn't give Merit to posts that are worth reading, out of fear of that being interpreted as me endorsing the user.

This list can easily be gamed: I see a possibility to put satoshi on top, all I need to do is send him 1 Merit for one of his posts for the next 32 days Cheesy