Re: [CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity
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 I didn’t talk about new topics. This section in the Russian locale is the smallest and such large discussions have not been there for a long time. We're talking about big topics with more than 3000 posts. But the moderators will never delete such topics, they will either be closed or transferred to the Archive. There is nothing like that in the archive. There are only 2 such topics in that section (2 !!!) And they are all in place, so I don’t understand which topic with 3000 posts we’re talking about here. This section has always been little-popular, and large losses there would be noticeable immediately. There are only 7 pages with topics. And a major loss will be noticeable immediately.
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 move some stuff around.
That is, you want to say that the moderators suddenly began to delete half of what is published there? The difference in calculations is 3-8 times different.
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. Great example of detailed overview is this one made by @fillippone for Italian local board. It might help clear the situation and calm people down.
I have already done this and opened a topic in the Russian locale: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5336556.0, where I conduct a more detailed analysis of your statistics and double-check the data. Thanks to this topic, some users have already begun to understand that everything in our locale is not as bad as in your charts.
