From an objective point of view, the numbers state a potentially contradictory situation on the Portuguese Local Board:
a) On the one hand, the number of Net created posts seem to be picking-up over the past few months (excluding Altcoins for this exercise). Since January 2019, the number of posts has more than doubled, and even tripled during August 2019. Specifically, the Brazilian child board, and the Main board have picked-up a lot of traction over the past few months.
b) On the other hand, the number of merits distributed on the local board is "stable". That is, since January 2019, the number per month is on average 91,5, with its ups and downs, but it does not follow the volume of created posts in that same timeframe. Note that September is Partial with data as of last Friday.
Number on Net created posts (see
https://public.tableau.com/shared/Q7FJSFDYR?:display_count=yes&:origin=viz_share_link):
Number of awarded sMerits (
https://public.tableau.com/shared/3885JQQZJ?:display_count=yes&:origin=viz_share_link):
Now of course I cannot myself add much subjectivity as to the quality/interest of the posts themselves (that is for locals to point out), or why the surge of the number of posts, but the above could be a pointer that it may be in need of a review.
Disclaimer: Net post are the number of posts created deleted- moved. Since I cannot disassociate the three concepts, I cannot tell whether a specific set of months have had a heavy contribution to the number due to moderation, lowering the total post count for a given month by means of moderation and not a decrease in organic posting.