In my previous post, I wanted to call out on you and say "Where is DdmrDdmr when you need him?" but I forgot to include it, glad to see you still replied with your informative as always statistics! 
So... Russian section has traded 1182 merits? Seems legit
Is there really more activity there than Altcoin ANN and Bitcoin Discussion? I smell some shady business but whatever!
I believe that the following table also shows the issue of reduced Merits,
But I'm sure sMerits are relative to the overall post count on the forums, which seems reduced as well...
I guess that the main issue is my reduced activity since I was very busy in October and maybe the few threads I'm following and contributing to don't have a merit source user.
So... Russian section has traded 1182 merits? Seems legit
Is there really more activity there than Altcoin ANN and Bitcoin Discussion? I smell some shady business but whatever!I believe that the following table also shows the issue of reduced Merits,
But I'm sure sMerits are relative to the overall post count on the forums, which seems reduced as well...
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Reading nPosts DiffPrev nDays AvgPosts/day
27/11/2018 48.230.858 1.080.277 35 30.865
23/10/2018 47.150.581 944.278 26 36.318
27/09/2018 46.206.303 1.517.366 32 47.418
26/08/2018 44.688.937 1.845.193 31 59.522
26/07/2018 42.843.744 2.245.888 34 66.056
22/06/2018 40.597.856 2.190.432 28 78.230
25/05/2018 38.407.424 3.016.289 31 97.300
24/04/2018 35.391.135 2.354.827 31 75.962
24/03/2018 33.036.308 2.185.262 29 75.354
23/02/2018 30.851.046 2.002.593 29 69.055
25/01/2018 28.848.453 1.864.380 29 64.289
27/12/2017 26.984.073
What we can see is that the average per day (recent averages, comparing one reading to that of the previous month) increases until end of May, and then starts declining with September and October in the lead if we turn the drops into percentages (drops in number of posts since May are in the 10% to 23% area, depending on the month).27/11/2018 48.230.858 1.080.277 35 30.865
23/10/2018 47.150.581 944.278 26 36.318
27/09/2018 46.206.303 1.517.366 32 47.418
26/08/2018 44.688.937 1.845.193 31 59.522
26/07/2018 42.843.744 2.245.888 34 66.056
22/06/2018 40.597.856 2.190.432 28 78.230
25/05/2018 38.407.424 3.016.289 31 97.300
24/04/2018 35.391.135 2.354.827 31 75.962
24/03/2018 33.036.308 2.185.262 29 75.354
23/02/2018 30.851.046 2.002.593 29 69.055
25/01/2018 28.848.453 1.864.380 29 64.289
27/12/2017 26.984.073
I guess that the main issue is my reduced activity since I was very busy in October and maybe the few threads I'm following and contributing to don't have a merit source user.