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Many months ago, on 24th January 2018, merit appeared in the forum, as airdropped merits (and sMerits) for grandfather accounts, then it has become a gift for good posters.
There is no benefits to beg for merits as well as merit sources, because merit beggars might get negative trust or bad feedback in return.
In the thread, I publish observations on merit source growth over months.
For more details, there are some threads to read:
Merit & new rank requirement
Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements
One year anniversary of merit system
Merit source growth history, if you know it, please help me (I appreciated all kindly help from users in that thread).
Merit source stats page
{list} Open Merit Source Applications,waiting list.
{LIST}of the Merit Sources asking for more smerit. Done! Thank you theymos. (locked for now but @iasenko might reopen it anytime later).
Some helpful opinion of theymos on merit sources:
Notes:
- Update will be made in last post, not in OP.
- If you find something, or discover incorrect data, please let me know.
- Date presents in the format: dd/mm/yyyy.
- Dates present in the dataset might not exactly the day when total merit sources reach those figures, they are just dates recorded arbitrarily by users.
- The first datapoint (24/1/2018), I got the smerits at 8125 smerits (it might be incorrect), from that post
Dataset:
Time series plots
Combined plot
Note:
- To make combined plot looks better, I created a new variable, meritsource100, that equals meritsource * 100
There is no benefits to beg for merits as well as merit sources, because merit beggars might get negative trust or bad feedback in return.
In the thread, I publish observations on merit source growth over months.
For more details, there are some threads to read:
Merit & new rank requirement
Enhanced newbie restrictions & requirements
One year anniversary of merit system
Merit source growth history, if you know it, please help me (I appreciated all kindly help from users in that thread).
Merit source stats page
{list} Open Merit Source Applications,waiting list.
{LIST}of the Merit Sources asking for more smerit. Done! Thank you theymos. (locked for now but @iasenko might reopen it anytime later).
Some helpful opinion of theymos on merit sources:
Certain users are designated as "merit sources". They can create new merit out of nothing, up to a limited number per month (which differs per source). I will not be posting a definitive list of merit sources (so that people don't bug them too much), though you'll soon figure out who they are if you pay attention.
Merit sources are free to reveal their source amounts, though I think it may be a bit unwise. While it will eventually become obvious roughly what the source amounts are from the stats, there's a huge difference between showing up in a "list of probable merit sources" and having a quote out there of you basically saying "I'm a merit source, come beg me for merit, complain about every merit I send, and accuse me of being part of the anti-X/pro-Y conspiracy."
Notes:
- Update will be made in last post, not in OP.
- If you find something, or discover incorrect data, please let me know.
- Date presents in the format: dd/mm/yyyy.
- Dates present in the dataset might not exactly the day when total merit sources reach those figures, they are just dates recorded arbitrarily by users.
- The first datapoint (24/1/2018), I got the smerits at 8125 smerits (it might be incorrect), from that post
Each source has a different limit per 30 days. The current average is 185, and in total up to 8125 merit could be created per month.
Nevertheless, I think it is correct, because about 4 hours after that post, theymos made this one, in which we see there was still 35 total merit sourcesI added stats pages:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats
And per-user summary pages like:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=35
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats
And per-user summary pages like:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=35
Dataset:
Code:
. list id day month2 year date meritsource smerit, abb(30)
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| id day month2 year date meritsource smerit |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
1. | 1 24 1 2018 24jan2018 35 8125 |
2. | 2 26 1 2018 26jan2018 49 9025 |
3. | 3 1 3 2018 01mar2018 57 11975 |
4. | 4 12 3 2018 12mar2018 77 17650 |
5. | 5 22 3 2018 22mar2018 80 17800 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
6. | 6 18 5 2018 18may2018 80 18500 |
7. | 7 6 7 2018 06jul2018 82 18900 |
8. | 8 11 7 2018 11jul2018 83 19100 |
9. | 9 17 9 2018 17sep2018 120 23045 |
10. | 10 17 11 2018 17nov2018 119 22045 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
11. | 11 22 12 2018 22dec2018 120 22055 |
12. | 12 5 1 2019 05jan2019 123 20735 |
13. | 13 6 2 2019 06feb2019 122 20835 |
14. | 14 15 3 2019 15mar2019 130 20605 |
15. | 15 27 6 2019 27jun2019 131 21045 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
16. | 16 30 10 2019 30oct2019 130 20895 |
17. | 17 14 11 2019 14nov2019 90 18821 |
18. | 18 15 11 2019 15nov2019 98 21671 |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| id day month2 year date meritsource smerit |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
1. | 1 24 1 2018 24jan2018 35 8125 |
2. | 2 26 1 2018 26jan2018 49 9025 |
3. | 3 1 3 2018 01mar2018 57 11975 |
4. | 4 12 3 2018 12mar2018 77 17650 |
5. | 5 22 3 2018 22mar2018 80 17800 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
6. | 6 18 5 2018 18may2018 80 18500 |
7. | 7 6 7 2018 06jul2018 82 18900 |
8. | 8 11 7 2018 11jul2018 83 19100 |
9. | 9 17 9 2018 17sep2018 120 23045 |
10. | 10 17 11 2018 17nov2018 119 22045 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
11. | 11 22 12 2018 22dec2018 120 22055 |
12. | 12 5 1 2019 05jan2019 123 20735 |
13. | 13 6 2 2019 06feb2019 122 20835 |
14. | 14 15 3 2019 15mar2019 130 20605 |
15. | 15 27 6 2019 27jun2019 131 21045 |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
16. | 16 30 10 2019 30oct2019 130 20895 |
17. | 17 14 11 2019 14nov2019 90 18821 |
18. | 18 15 11 2019 15nov2019 98 21671 |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
Time series plots
Combined plot
Note:
- To make combined plot looks better, I created a new variable, meritsource100, that equals meritsource * 100