Quote from: DdmrDdmr on October 01, 2018, 08:15:27 PM

Quote from: r1s2g3 on October 01, 2018, 09:31:04 AM

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Lets be the devils advocate here:
Say each sMerit, out of the 19.500 max. potential distributed Merit Source sMerits, goes to 19.500 new distinct receivers. Those 19.500 users will now have 1 sMerit. Lets say they never receive anymore sMerits. In this extreme case, the 19,5K batch will have originated 19,5K sMerits exactly, with no halvings, therefore going nowhere near the potential maximum of 39k.

The truth is somewhere in between, but it depends on two factors:
- How branched the awarded sMerits go (the more branches (the wider the tree), the further away from potential maximum).
- If the receiver sends the halvings on to another person or not.

I got you, that ideal potential is difficult to reach but below calculation is not giving any encouraging results. let me show you again.

19500 smerits available for period of 30 days.
so for 28 days 19500/30*28 =18200 sMerits are available.

Merit distributions for 28 days period starting from 23-07-2018 to 19-08-2018 =3809+3489+4199+3767=15264
Even I assume your theory that only Merit source merited, still their is deficit of 18200-15264 =2936 merits

Merit distributions for 28 days period starting from 20-08-2018 to 16-09-2018 =3763+3136+3536+3586=14021
Even I assume your theory that only Merit source merited, still their is deficit of 18200-14021 =4179 merits.

It is very evident, that Source merits did not used their quota fully at least for the period of these 56 days.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on October 01, 2018, 07:32:01 PM

If anyone knows of any posts deserving merits, feel free to send me a PM with links. If what you link to are complete shitposts, I'll block future PMs from you. And please realize I have fairly high standards when deciding to hand out merits.

Instead of PMs, I like you to run some open challenge like actmyname did it. Will review atleast 20 post before Meriting. If post are found shitpost, then a neutral tag of shit posting will be awarded. 90% user who are making hue and cry for Merit,will not enter your challenge.

Quote from: Don Pedro Dinero on October 01, 2018, 09:11:50 PM

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I think we both have same end conclusion but a different way of saying the things. Merit source reading 20000 post and not finding the quality post is an issue. But in other hand I think average users who become members after accumulating 10+ merit is most clueless one because adding another 90 will become another story. We all know "Not getting Merit" is not equal to "spamming" but in eyes of Merit System both become equal.

Quote from: 3acaga on October 01, 2018, 06:46:09 PM

Good topic and very instructive - thank you.

You are welcome. If you go through these stats, you will find one more eye opener.
With all the Merit abuse happened in this forum, users giving 50 merits to ANN threads ,we have only 876 users that earned 50 or 50+ merit in last 8 months.