Quote from: Piggy on October 14, 2018, 11:22:49 AM

It's quite simple, some hero member got extra merit when the system was introduced, you can see in here theymos mentioning it:

Quote from: theymos on April 20, 2018, 12:37:52 AM

Quote from: sncc on April 18, 2018, 07:34:19 AM

While specific formula is not given, theymos wrote that the initial sMerit is not solely determined by rank, but determined by rank and activity points obtained in the last year.

The exact formula was:

Code:

yearActivity = activity in the last ~year, max 378
freeMerit = the merit (not sMerit) you started with
modifier =
0.1 if member
0.2 if full member
0.25 if sr member
0.35 if hero
0.4 if legendary

return (yearActivity/378) * modifier * freeMerit

So the most you could get is if you were a Legendary who maxed out your activity points in the last year, in which case you would get 1 * 0.4 * 1000 = 400 sMerit.

Note that I later made an adjustment giving 500 extra merit to some hero members, but no extra sMerit was given here.

I'll probably publish a dump of the initial sMerit at some point.

That seems wrong. I got 192 sMerit and I don't think I missed an activity period over the last year which is a bit confusing.
Is there an extra figure that got left out there?

Quote from: S_Therapist on October 14, 2018, 11:25:01 AM

Quote from: Gloverwrt on October 14, 2018, 11:21:36 AM

I believe the merit score of any user can only be dated back to the last 120 days and after that it can no longer be traced.

In bpip, you can check the history of merits of a person, not only for 120 days.
Link- bpip.org
Credit- Vod

Quote from: Piggy on October 14, 2018, 11:22:49 AM

It's quite simple, some hero member got extra merit when the system was introduced, you can see in here theymos mentioning it:

Quote from: theymos on April 20, 2018, 12:37:52 AM

Note that I later made an adjustment giving 500 extra merit to some hero members, but no extra sMerit was given here.

But why with only 552 activities? Any specific reason?

Quote from: BitCryptex on October 14, 2018, 11:23:34 AM

It might be possible that Rollin.io was a Legendary member but due to a huge number of deleted posts his activity went down as well.

BPIP also provides modlogs for each user. No post was deleted for that user.

Quote from: BitCryptex on October 14, 2018, 11:23:34 AM

This post explains why everyone got a different amount of sMerit. It's not the same.

He indicated this one.

Quote from: theymos on April 20, 2018, 12:37:52 AM

Note that I later made an adjustment giving 500 extra merit to some hero members, but no extra sMerit was given here.

Jet Cash also didn't get the 500 merit and I think he was a bit above a hero when the merit system came out (not entirely sure though).