Re: Percentage of Merit received on old posts, deleted posts, and average per post
Do me! And, if it's not too much to ask, the members of the Vulpine Order of Merit whom you haven't already done or are going to do (Jet Cash, achow101, gmaxwell, and o_e_l_e_o). I'm interested to know if my high expectations for the Order are justified.
User Foxpup (full history)
- Received a total of 153 Merit up to last Friday.
- Received 9 Merit (5.88%) for 3024 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0029 Merit per old post).
- Received 141 Merit (92.15%) for 182 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.7747 Merit per new post).
- Received 3 Merit (1.96%) for posts that are now deleted.
User JetCash (full history)
- Received a total of 737 Merit up to last Friday.
- Received 2 Merit (0.27%) for 2126 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0009 Merit per old post).
- Received 732 Merit (99.32%) for 3410 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.2146 Merit per new post).
- Received 3 Merit (0.40%) for posts that are now deleted.
User achow101 (full history)
- Received a total of 699 Merit up to last Friday.
- Received 46 Merit (6.58%) for 10307 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0044 Merit per old post).
- Received 643 Merit (91.98%) for 585 posts created after the introduction of Merit (1.0991 Merit per new post).
- Received 10 Merit (1.43%) for posts that are now deleted.
User gmaxwell (full history)
- Received a total of 540 Merit up to last Friday.
- Received 109 Merit (20.18%) for 4698 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0232 Merit per old post).
- Received 426 Merit (78.88%) for 60 posts created after the introduction of Merit (7.1000 Merit per new post).
- Received 5 Merit (0.92%) for posts that are now deleted.
User o_e_l_e_o (full history)
- Received a total of 537 Merit up to last Friday.
- Received 0 Merit (0%) for 341 posts created before the introduction of Merit.
- Received 506 Merit (94.22%) for 1727 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.2929 Merit per new post).
- Received 31 Merit (5.77%) for posts that are now deleted.
Can you try for me LoyceV
User vphasitha01 (full history)
- Received a total of 161 Merit up to last Friday.
- Received 0 Merit (0%) for 0 posts created before the introduction of Merit.
- Received 157 Merit (97.51%) for 478 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.3284 Merit per new post).
- Received 4 Merit (2.48%) for posts that are now deleted.
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@LoyceV can you list the users who awarded the most number of merits for the deleted posts?
No, unfortunately I can't. That would require scraping all posts from all merited users.Quote
Btw why you specifically chosen Alex_Sr for your list in the OP? Is he the member who has the most merits for the post that are now deleted?
I took him as an example because I remembered his name. He's one of the users who received a lot of Merit from xandry, who used to give Merit for reporting spam or plagiarism (I don't remember exactly), which was deleted after taking Mod action on the offenders. There's a thread about it somewhere, and he stopped doing this. It's not necessarily abuse, but it was debated and made a nice example of a user with many deleted posts. See xandry's full Merit history for a long list of Merit sent to posts that are now deleted.Quote
I'm somewhat confused to understand whether this number is positive indicator or negative indicator when comparing stats 
It depends on the reason the posts were deleted. In general, I don't think it's a good thing. But it also depends on the board, I can imagine some good posts disappeared when the entire thread was trashed. Or posted on a board that I can't scrape.