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Just this week I was going over this question on a PM basis, and I drew up some summarized information from a global perspective on the gap between the moment you publish a post, and the moment it receives sMerit. This is a summary:
- 56% of sMerit TXs go to posts created within 24h (13,73% within the first hour, 10,05% within the second hour, and so on).
- 8,09% of sMerit TXs merit posts on the second day.
- 4,38% of sMerit TXs merit posts on the third day.
- 2,79% of sMerit TXs merit posts on the fourth day.
- 2,10% of sMerit TXs merit posts on the fifth day.
- 1,78% of sMerit TXs merit posts on the sixth day.
- 1,34% of sMerit TXs merit posts on the seventh day.
- 5,61% of sMerit TXs merit posts during the second week.
- 3,05% of sMerit TXs merit posts during the third week.
- 2,03% of sMerit TXs merit posts during the fourth week.
- 12,33% of sMerit TXs merit posts after fourth weeks (likely outliers related to posts by @Theymos, @Satoshi, merit abuse cover-ups, and so on).
The information above is derived from a post I created at the end of May 2018 (see
Forum Merited Messages- Does size count?). Things may have shifted a bit since then, but it does give us a reference to what you were talking about.