Quote from: Bill Gates on September 12, 2019, 07:53:40 PM

How so I know the Bumping Power of an user?

You can try to infer the maximum Bumping Power Base of a given person, but not the currently remaining amount, since there is no trace (other than for forum internals) on who bumped what and when.

The maximum Bumping Power Base, is the minimum of: min(activity in a year, earned merits in a year). So for a person who is pretty active and merited, his Bumping Power Base will be somewhere in the 364 or 365 range.

Profiles with 0 earned merits will have 0 Bumping Power Base, regardless of their Activity (no earned merits, no bumps).

For the most, the Bumping Power Base will be determined by the number of earned Merits in a year, and not the Activity, since the former is more difficult to obtain.

To get a rough idea on a grand scale of potential Bumping Powr Base:

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on September 12, 2019, 09:42:32 AM

<> There are, as of last Friday, around (I have not/cannot cross that with activity in that period of time, nor crossed against banned profiles):
109 profiles that have earned >= 364 merits in the last year.
122 profiles that have earned between 180 and 363 merits.
184 profiles that have earned between 90 and 179 merits.
308 profiles that have earned between 45 and 89 merits.
454 profiles that have earned between 22 and 44 merits.
1142 profiles that have earned between 10 and 21 merits.
7913 profiles that have earned between 1 and 9 merits.

In my case for example, my Bumping Power Base should be around 365 (I have that much activity, and over that number of earned merits in a year the minimum of the two applies).

-   Each Mini bump that I do by posting on an implied thread, will give the thread 3,65 bump points (incrementing the threads internal bump score by that amount).

-   My first Super bump will transfer 365 bump points to the thread, my complete Bumping Power Base (in my case, equivalent to 85 Mini bumps of mine).

-   Mi second Super bump will transfer 365*0,85 = 310,25 bump points to the/a thread

-   Mi third Super bump will transfer 365*(0,85)^2 = 263,71 bump points to the thread

-   And so on.

Another profile with, lets say, 365 days of Activity, but only 10 earned Merits, will have a Bumping Base Power of 10 (the minimum of those two numbers) and:
-   Each Mini bump will transfer to the thread 0,1 bump points.

-   His first Super bump will transfer 10 bump points; the total of his Bumping Base Power.

-   His second Super bump will transfer 10*0,85 = 8,5 bump points

-   His third Super bump will transfer 10*(0,85)^2 = 7,22 bump points

-   And so on.

This is all dynamic really though: Bumping base is recalculated often, and the effective bumping power of Super Bumps recovers I believe 30 days after each individual spend made. In addition, the bump score transferred to a thread lasts for 36 hours, decaying linearly over that period of time to the margin of bump score contribution (i.e. If I transfer 365 bump points now to a thread by means of a Super bump, the effective amount will be 182,5 after 18 hours, and 0 after 36 hours).