Quote from: LTU_btc on September 18, 2019, 09:52:18 AM

I noticed just now that new rank requirements were released one year ago. Release of merit system was big thing, but I think that these rank requirements (1 merit to become Jr. Member) have real effect. It changed forum a lot into positive side.

Effects of enhanced merit system (aims at old-era Junior Members) can be seen on the time-series plot, with a spike (from abuse) in September of 2019.

Quote from: tranthidung on January 24, 2019, 03:11:36 PM

Time series plot of truncated dataset (from 26/1/2018 to 16/1/2019) [first two days dropped]

Another evidence is total monthly registered accounts fell dramatically since September 2018. You can see from that raw statistics and from the time-series plot. After merit system run in January 2018, people kept creating new accounts, because they were still able to rank up to Junior Member rank from shitposts, but since September 2018, with this change, they realized the fact that they were unable to rank up to Junior Member from shit posts. Most of shitposters are unable to earn a single merit, so they stopped creating new accounts.
Let's compare stats of September (total register accounts from mid-August 2018 to mid-September 2018), for the month before the enhancement and some months later:

One month later: 16oct2018 (figure from mid-September 2018 to mid-October 2018), at 41516 and 35335, respectively.
It means about 14.9% drop after one month since the enhancement.
Three months later: 15dec2018, the stat fell to 20733, that equals the 50% drop.

Quote from: tranthidung on July 26, 2019, 04:47:19 AM

Code:

. list id day month2 year date regacc, abb(30)

   +------------------------------------------------+
   | id day month2 year date regacc |
   |------------------------------------------------|
100. | 100 19 1 2018 19jan2018 136872 |
   |------------------------------------------------|
101. | 101 18 2 2018 18feb2018 107237 |
102. | 102 20 3 2018 20mar2018 87087 |
103. | 103 19 4 2018 19apr2018 89659 |
104. | 104 19 5 2018 19may2018 83999 |
105. | 105 18 6 2018 18jun2018 72430 |
   |------------------------------------------------|
106. | 106 18 7 2018 18jul2018 61360 |
107. | 107 17 8 2018 17aug2018 41451 |
108. | 108 16 9 2018 16sep2018 41516 |
109. | 109 16 10 2018 16oct2018 35335 |
110. | 110 15 11 2018 15nov2018 31502 |
   |------------------------------------------------|
111. | 111 15 12 2018 15dec2018 20733 |
112. | 112 14 1 2019 14jan2019 20046 |
113. | 113 28 2 2019 28feb2019 16202 |
114. | 114 31 3 2019 31mar2019 18932 |
115. | 115 30 4 2019 30apr2019 17910 |
   |------------------------------------------------|
116. | 116 30 5 2019 30may2019 24472 |
117. | 117 30 6 2019 30jun2019 22357 |

Plot:

Visit Assumed monthly statistics on registered accounts of bitcointalk.org (2009-2019) to get full details, please.

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Happy anniversary merit system! Long live!

You are incorrect.
Merit system's birthday is not today. In fact, its birthday is January 24, 2018, 11:00:11 PM (forum time), or Wednesday 24 January 2018 22:12:21 (GMT time). Please read: One year anniversary of merit system. We have not yet reached the 2^nd anniversary of merit sytem.