Quote from: KingZee on October 17, 2018, 02:43:48 PM

<>Out of all the newbies/jrs/fulls/srs who DID get merit -which I'm going to assume means they're not spamming, if you can agree to that- what's the average merit they received per post, and what's the average of unique members that merited those newbies/jrs/fulls per post.
Just these two for each member rank, then do it for legendaries and heroes too. If the stats are evenly distributed i'll never mention this topic again.<>

I just modified the Merit Dashboard to get an approximation to what you are looking for, by adding Rank Filters to a Tab I has already running.
If we go to the Tab called Post Summary, we can easily see some of the averages youre on about. I guess that when you say average merit per post, the context is not of all the created post, but rather all the merited posts. This latter approach is what this tab verses about.

Applying the filters, it turns out that (summary of what can be seen on the Dashboard):

Newbies:
71,69% of the received sMerit TXs are of 1 sMerit each.
12,99% of the received sMerit TXs are of 2 sMerits each.
85,88% of merited posts are merited by 1 single person (1Tx).
9,79% of merited posts are merited by 2 people (2Txs)

Jr. Member:
76,66% of the received sMerit TXs are of 1 sMerit each.
13,16% of the received sMerit TXs are of 2 sMerits each.
89,36% of merited posts are merited by 1 single person (1Tx).
7,92% of merited posts are merited by 2 people (2Txs)

Member:
62,25% of the received sMerit TXs are of 1 sMerit each.
18,11% of the received sMerit TXs are of 2 sMerits each.
79,90% of merited posts are merited by 1 single person (1Tx).
11,82% of merited posts are merited by 2 people (2Txs)

Full Member:
67,85% of the received sMerit TXs are of 1 sMerit each.
14,62% of the received sMerit TXs are of 2 sMerits each.
79,84% of merited posts are merited by 1 single person (1Tx).
12,04% of merited posts are merited by 2 people (2Txs)

Sr. Member:
67,40% of the received sMerit TXs are of 1 sMerit each.
14,35% of the received sMerit TXs are of 2 sMerits each.
78,56% of merited posts are merited by 1 single person (1Tx).
11,84% of merited posts are merited by 2 people (2Txs)

Hero Member:
70,05% of the received sMerit TXs are of 1 sMerit each.
14,06% of the received sMerit TXs are of 2 sMerits each.
81,15% of merited posts are merited by 1 single person (1Tx).
11,89% of merited posts are merited by 2 people (2Txs)

Legendary Member:
74,29% of the received sMerit TXs are of 1 sMerit each.
12,50% of the received sMerit TXs are of 2 sMerits each.
79,62% of merited posts are merited by 1 single person (1Tx).
13,00% of merited posts are merited by 2 people (2Txs)

There are obviously some differences between ranks in terms of received merit distribution, but nothing too extreme that would indicate that the higher ranks have an easy life getting merit. Forget the outlier cases you see around. The norm is another one, when you take into consideration forum wide data.