Re: [CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity
There are no large new topics in this section for a long time, this is the smallest section of the locale. A moderator will never delete a huge thread. It will either be transferred to another section of the locale or taken to the Archives. There are no major topics from this section in the archive, which means that all topics are in place.
Topic deleted/removed doesn't have to be new one in order to affect monthly post count in Merit Dashboard. Let' say that you wrote 300 new posts in "Oбcyждeниe Bitcoin" during April 2021, but in the same time some old topic got removed/deleted which had 3300 posts, meaning that total difference will be -3000, and will affect numbers significantly. These things happen with pretty much every board occasionally, and with Russian board for the last couple of months.And if you look at the diagram for counting the number of posts that I made, you can see that the counting algorithm broke about six months ago and began to show incorrect data for the Russian locale:
Yep, from November 2020 and up until now Russian board numbers went down, but I don't think that its due broken algorithm, but deleted topics/posts. Best is probably to ask your local mods what is going on, did they delete or moved some stuff around. And I wouldn't have focused on it if this broken data wasn't misleading. Because of this data, discussions about the death of the locale began to take place in my locale, and people began to speculate about what caused such a sharp drop in activity among posters. But in fact, there is no sharp decline and there was not. Just crooked counting algorithms that sowed the panic. 
Yeah I am aware of the fact that people don't look in depth what is going on but rather just look at the chart and immediately draw conclusions. I try to mention in every monthly overview that they should check a bit more thorough to get the clear picture of the real situation, as this is more intended to be a brief overview, and not too detailed one, as I want to keep it simple in order to not bore people too much. I don't know if anyone is doing that in Russian local board, but it wouldn't be a bad idea if someone makes detailed monthly overview of your board, like I am doing for mine, and some others for theirs It might help clear the situation and calm people down.