Can someone tweak the stats a little by deleting legendary members with signatures? Most of them are from Chipmixer and Bestchange's campaigns, and some of them are from the rest of the campaigns?
These campaigns force members to create 50 or 25 topics per week, so the frequent posting will make them get merits regardless of the topic.
Say what? I can't speak for Bestchange's campaign, but as far as Chipmixer goes, it's got a reputation as one that's extremely selective as far as accepting only members who have a proven history of making posts of above-par quality--not the other way around, i.e., its members don't make better (or even more) posts
because they're in the Chipmixer campaign. And believe me, there's no forcing of anything going on. Some members consistently make fewer than 50 posts/week, and other members who make way more than they'd get paid for.
It is great because it gives us a solid labeled dataset regarding what people like about posts.
You think? I'm not so sure, because people give merits for a wide variety of reasons and even from one merit source to the next there are different standards as far as what constitutes a merit-worthy post. The only consistent criterion I could see would be length, with a well-answered question (of any length) coming in at a close second.