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Re: #MeritBrokeMyLife AGAIN - A Message To theymos
by
tranthidung
on 19/02/2020, 13:00:17 UTC
I am not a merit source (I planned to make my source application on the beautiful day 02/02/2020 but I did not finish it as consequence of something unexpected) but I have my strategies to do if I am a source:

  • Setting up a max cap of daily smerits will be given away.
  • Filling the gaps of un-used sMerits of previous days (if you don't find good posts to give away)
  • Never pre-use your self-allocated sMerits.
I could be wrong but obeying these rules will help you lifting up the level of quality of posts you will give your sMerits on. For example, if I set up my daily cap at 5, I must find only 5 best posts each day to send my 5 sMerits to. There are days you find many good posts (more than 5, and you will have to choose the best 5) and days you did not find a single good post.

I have some statistics for your local (all outdated ones).
Your local is the sixth most actively local boards on the forum, based on statistics.  Wink
Based on the criteria, the top 5 active local boards are:
  • Russian: 1505 posts/day
  • Indonesian: 545 posts/day
  • Turkish: 376 posts/day
  • Chinese: 213 posts/day
  • Pilipinas: 174 posts/day
There are two sets of criteria but I would like to choose the rankpost. There is no reasons for now to combine two criteria sets.

Details:
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
     | rankpost   ranktopic      boardname   npost_daily   ntopics_daily     npost   ntopics   daysbetween    birthday       today |
     |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  1. |        1           1        Russian        1356.2            36.3   4626017    123808          3411   28jul2010   29nov2019 |
  2. |        2           5     Indonesian           545             6.5   1049600     12574          1926   21aug2014   29nov2019 |
  3. |        3           3        Turkish         375.2              16    889951     38038          2372   01jun2013   29nov2019 |
  4. |        4           2        Chinese         212.9            28.9    658643     89330          3093   11jun2011   29nov2019 |
  5. |        5           6      Pilipinas         173.4             5.5    241878      7642          1395   03feb2016   29nov2019 |

Ranks in total posts per day (ntopics_daily):
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    +------------------------------------------+
     | ranktopic      boardname   ntopics_daily |
     |------------------------------------------|
  1. |         1        Russian            36.3 |
  2. |         2        Chinese            28.9 |
  3. |         3        Turkish              16 |
  4. |         4         German             7.8 |
  5. |         5     Indonesian             6.5 |
     |------------------------------------------|
  6. |         6      Pilipinas             5.5 |

In median, there are 7 merits distributed daily on your board (it is an outdate figure, and I guess the statistics has been risen recent months, but not too significantly).
6. Pilipinas
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   variable |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       merit |     555.0      11.8      18.9       7.0       3.0      15.0       1.0     331.0
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Outliers are days have intra-day merits above 33.
Code:
. di 15-3
12

. di 12*1.5
18

. di 15 + 18
33
Most of outliers occured since the April of 2019. Lots of effects from merit sources in that board, definitely.
Code:
    +-------------------+
     |      date   merit |
     |-------------------|
  2. | 26jan2018      48 |
  3. | 27jan2018      46 |
  5. | 29jan2018      33 |
  6. | 30jan2018      51 |
 72. | 08apr2018      52 |
 75. | 12apr2018      55 |
 85. | 24apr2018      46 |
133. | 19jun2018      64 |
155. | 11jul2018      83 |
     |-------------------|
329. | 26apr2019      36 |
347. | 15may2019      61 |
352. | 20may2019      37 |
370. | 07jun2019      40 |
372. | 09jun2019     331 |
375. | 12jun2019      51 |
376. | 13jun2019      40 |
377. | 14jun2019      48 |
378. | 15jun2019      47 |
383. | 20jun2019      34 |
409. | 17jul2019      39 |
413. | 21jul2019      84 |
420. | 28jul2019      36 |
421. | 29jul2019      65 |
441. | 18aug2019      90 |
478. | 26sep2019      92 |
482. | 30sep2019      33 |
483. | 01oct2019      38 |
488. | 06oct2019      61 |
495. | 13oct2019      34 |
497. | 15oct2019      40 |
500. | 18oct2019      41 |
514. | 01nov2019      55 |
520. | 07nov2019      38 |
522. | 09nov2019      33 |
539. | 26nov2019      61 |
540. | 27nov2019      53 |
     +-------------------+