Update:

I don't know which day it happened but yesterday (I did check the merit source stat page recent days), the forum has only 90 merit sources in total (from the previous figure at 130). 40 merit sources were removed. The last time we saw such very low total merit sources is at 11/7/2018 with 83 merit sources in total. Simultaneously, the total sMerits allocated to merit sources decreased to 18821

Fortunately, today, the forum has 98 merit sources in total (from the previous figure at 130) and the total sMerits allocation for each 30 days increase to 21671 (from the previous figure at 20895).

Total merit sources: decrease 24.6%
Total sMerits allocated each 30 days: increase 3.7%

Code:

. di (130-98)/130*100
24.615385

. di (21671-20895)/20895*100
3.7138071

It is a big move!

Quote from: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=sources

There are 98 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 21671 sMerit per 30 days

Time-series plot:

Updated data:

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 |
   +-------------------------------------------------------------+

Last time when theymos removed one or two merit sources, he added dozen of new merit sources (some months ago). I would go crazy if theymos adds 32 new merit sources in a row when merit system has been in very stable operational phase. Anyway, good luck for all merit source applicants.

Quote from: tranthidung on November 15, 2019, 01:03:09 AM

For theoritical increase of 30-days sMerits for each source, let assume each source receive same sMerits before and after the latest changes.

Code:

. di 20895/130
160.73077

. di 21671/98
221.13265

. di (222-161)/161*100
37.888199

From the above calculation, each source was allocated 161 and 222 sMerits before and after the latest changes, respectively. So it means each source theoritically received around 61 more sMerits or 38-percent of increase for their 30-days allocated sMerits.

You wrote this

Quote from: Quickseller on November 15, 2019, 12:36:28 AM

Mine was increased as well. The adjustment is based on the last 6 months of sMerit sent including both source merit and personal merit and the amount was multiplied by 175%.

So the assumption above is wrong, it is just for fun to give us a kind of estimation.