Thanks for mentioning my chart which shows how many newbies received at least 1 merit since September 17, 2018.
Your list of banned users is helpful.
I also decided to extend the time interval of my previous chart up to January 24, 2018, and I got the following:
As I can see, 1934 newbies are already banned since the day the merit system was implemented on the forum.
foserfox is probably a hacked profile who sent merits to farmed accounts mostly in the russian local board, but I'm sure that the merit source EFS who is the moderator of the turkish local board didn't know that the users merited by him would be banned. I think this is absolutely normal.
(Additional Options... > Don't use smileys.)
I always select this checkbox when I publish my TOP-200 ratings, so as not to show the "cool" smile.
In total, 26864 users received at least 1 Merit until last Friday's merit data dump, and 3024 of those (11.26%) have been banned. It's probably a bit higher, my list of banned users is incomplete.
Your list of banned users is helpful.
I also decided to extend the time interval of my previous chart up to January 24, 2018, and I got the following:
As I can see, 1934 newbies are already banned since the day the merit system was implemented on the forum.
The data (click for the full version)
1. 45 (43.26%) banned users merited byfoserfox Banned! (details)
2. 41 (11.38%) banned users merited by EFS (details)
1. 45 (43.26%) banned users merited by
2. 41 (11.38%) banned users merited by EFS (details)
foserfox is probably a hacked profile who sent merits to farmed accounts mostly in the russian local board, but I'm sure that the merit source EFS who is the moderator of the turkish local board didn't know that the users merited by him would be banned. I think this is absolutely normal.
@Loyce. I went to your full list and noticed that when an 8 appears, you get (. Maybe use brackets instead.
Thanks, fixed!. Maybe use brackets instead.(Additional Options... > Don't use smileys.)
I always select this checkbox when I publish my TOP-200 ratings, so as not to show the "cool" smile.