Quote from: tranthidung on April 28, 2019, 05:16:36 AM

Update:

Time series plots:

[graphs above]

For more details, please get them there:
Time Series Analysis on Distributed Merits in the forum (daily, weekly, monthly)
Observation on interquartile range of intra-day merits with time series plot

These charts serve well the argument for having a decentralized forum without a scarcity of merit. It looks like merit distribution is still decaying, even though it's been 17 months. I'm not against the number of merit required to reach certain ranks, but that there fundamentally isn't enough merit "going around" as it were. I understand there is fresh merit that comes into the system, but the graph still indicates that despite this, merit is in decay (the chart looks like ICO'd altcoin). This is why I support the following idea, if I understand it correctly:

Quote from: theymos on April 09, 2019, 05:37:45 AM

If you wanted to implement Merit in a decentralized forum (ie. one in the vein of Freenet's Frost or FMS), you could do it in this way:
- Everyone can, from their own perspective, give unlimited merit to posts, and these merit transactions are put into files which each user publishes via the decentralized system. (Like a merit.txt.xz which every user publishes.) Unlike on bitcointalk.org, you can also give people merit without an associated post.