Quote from: FatFork on Today at 03:02:14 PM

Croatian board has always been near the bottom of the chart when it comes to merit/post ratio. I am glad that has changed.

Yep, it was pretty much obvious from that first monthly overview I made that our local board was seriously undermerited considering our activity, overall post quality and pretty much spam free board. All that is changed ever since we got two new merit sources, so no excuses anymore Cheesy

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Quote from: fillippone on Today at 03:34:41 PM

I am going to piggyback some of your graph for my post:
[Meta] Andamento sezione italiana

Wondering what happened in the dutch local board: maybe @El duderino_ got into a merit frenzy?

Be my guest! Regarding unusually high Dutch board merit/post ratio, you are right about @El duderino_, he indeed pushed their ratio. Then again, these things happen on lower activity boards, as few good posts that get a lot of merit can really inflate the numbers.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on Today at 04:21:00 PM

Excellent data dump and presentation, Rikafip! Lately I've been wondering about merit distribution on the local boards, and everything you presented in your last post pretty much answers every question I had, so thank you.

I am glad to hear that you find it useful and that I am not doing it only for myself, even though I actually enjoy making these charts as It's completely different from my usual forum activity, and I only do it once per month so it became kind of ritual for me.

Quote from: FatFork on Today at 03:02:14 PM

I wish there was some way I could help out with handing out merits in local sections, but I don't speak any of the languages. If I were to be willing to trust a trusted member reporting an unmerited post that was worthy of merit (in their opinion) and merit it myself, do any of you think that would present a major issue? The only reason I want to do this is because I know some boards don't have their own merit sources (or simply enough merits to go around). If I could inject a bunch of merits into a local board, hopefully they'd continue to circulate among the members there.

Good idea, bad idea?

To be honest, I don't see any major issues with that approach. Alternatively, you could use Google Chrome or any other browser with built in translation tool to quickly check out if post you are about to merit makes sense. After all, it is not unusual for merit sources to visit local boards of the language they don't speak, as some of them helped our local board (Croatian) many times and chimed in with a couple of merits.

There is also another way that you could help undermerited boards; choose one of them, and using Merit Dashboard you can see their most merited posts/threads in any time frame you set as chances are that most merited posts are at least, so you don't waste too much of your time looking around.

For example, Pilipinas board seems very undermerited lately, with only 27 merits shared while having more than 700 posts written. If you look at Merit senders/receivers chart, they also have very high amount of users being part of the merit system, relative to their very low amount of merit shared.

So, this is how that looks like, and you could to the same for any other board. Anyway, just an idea that might help you.

Source: https://public.tableau.com/shared/4HT6WY9MP?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link