Quote from: LoyceMobile on November 25, 2019, 09:00:47 PM

All sources had their source Merit adjusted and thus reset to the full amount. I'm aiming to empty mine in 30 days, so long term I expect my monthly distribution to increase by about 400 now.

It makes sense, with each 175% increase of each source's merit allocation, in the long run, merit distribution weekly will do increase as well.

Let's look at the past week, what happened?

After excluding theymos' effects, we have 291% increase compares to the median of weekly merits (before 2019w46) at 4521.

Code:

. di (14251-1071)/4521*100
291.52842

As being said, after the bias-effects from theymos and the Art contest cool down, I expect the figure will be somewhere closely to the increases of merit allocation for each source (compares to 4521).

Nevertheless, I have a big curious question for myself:
Will luckily ranked-up users with generous supports from the Art contest perform well in coming months?
From my observations, most of them stucked for months (with very very little earned merits - that somehow represents their post quality and contributions) and I believe their post quality will probably not change too much in coming months.

I also hope that all merit sources will maintain their strict rules when giving merits away. The forum does not need a new-era shitposters who will destroy what merit system and our community built up well so far.

I asked for help from you and @DdmrDdmr here. If you are interested in this one, please give us stats. Cheesy