Quote from: examplens on September 05, 2018, 10:17:47 PM

Whether there are statistics in which forum board categories, users receive the most of merit points?
somehow it seems to me that it is mostly given in the meta section. It's very hard to find merited posts in other section. I exclude these from the local board.

You can take a look at the Merit Dashboard. Specifically, you can focus on:

a)   The tab labelled Section Subsection:

The graphic on the right gives you the merit awarded by subsection both numerically and as a percentage of the total awarded merit.
By default, the data shown covers all time since Merit System kick-off, so you may want to concentrate on a specific month since percentage distribution to subsections varies overtime.

For example, Ann Altcoin is the most merited subsection (26.437 sMerits, which is 12,23% of all awarded sMerits). Nevertheless, if you narrow it down to August 2018 (with the dropdown box on the right of the screen), Ann Altcoin goes down to 7,17% of total awarded sMerit for the month. That section is on the drop, as there is so much spam there that I figure ordinary merit is not too high and Merit Sources do not sway there often, being it difficult to find anything good amongst all the spam.
Meta on the other hand has risen its share over time (most merited during August with a 13,41% share, but a 9,51% overall).

Meta is certainly not the only merited section, but it is likely the most spam-free of all, with rather decent conversations going. If you dont want to read spam all day long, Meta and Bitcoin technical sections are the cleanest from a spam point of view Id say.

b)   The Rankings tab:

This may be interesting to see, as you can get an idea of which are the top merited threads here (third data set block columns). You can filter the data to a specific date range with the slider on the Date Filter at the top (or click the dates on the extremes of the slider and enter them there).
Again, by default we see the most merited since Merit System started, but applying the date filter changes the view quite a bit.

Wall Observer thread is an ecosystem of its own, and is always at the top of the list (it is also behind on its own of the majority of sMerit in the Economics subsection).
Deleted are cases of merit assigned to posts that are later deleted for multiple reasons, and add-up to a fair share.

You can also filter by subsection at the top of this tab, to narrow down the data to a specific forum subsection.

Note: I created a post on the matter in May 2018 ( Forum Metrics - Section/subsection sMerit breakdown in detail), but as I said, the distribution of sMerit per subsection evolves over time, so the Dashboard allows us to have a view that we can follow dynamically with weekly updates).