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Hey meta-people. So I was wondering about this "activity" you show for each user based on the amount of posts combined with the post frequency over weeks since registration, and other details I'm possibly forgetting right now.

My issue with this metric is that it is completely irrelevant, I see users posting replies like "lol, right", "me too", "hi", "you're welcome", and so on. Which are fully useless, add nothing to the topic, yet increases the activity. I can imaginate a couple of reasons of why people do that, like being close to 10 years old, raising activity in accounts for selling them so other people can promote their services with sock puppets, or getting a higher rank. I have no hope for the first situation, this requires a nation-wide re-education which this forum cannot handle.

The other situations can be partially handled by simple rules, a more advanced system would apply some form of NLP. Would it be possible to not count towards activity replies with less than 5 words ? Maybe even reduce the activity when that occurs. People reported as trolls and such should never have their activity increased until they stop trolling. You could also take a dict and only count the words in a reply that appear in that dict, if it is below 5, then it cannot count towards activity either.

This bothers me because legitimate "hero members" and others are negatively affected by this kind of people.

lulz

Serious: No method is perfect. In my opinion, making the activity system more complicated just makes it easier to cheat it. The more rules there are, the more ways there are to get around them.

I'm not claiming this to be a perfect method, neither suggesting there is a perfect one. These simple rules will at least make people read rules about how the activity works, and then put a little more effort into their spamming replies. I do believe this helps the situation, it does not avoid it.

EDIT: lulz roflmao

No they don't.

The activity is the minimum of two values, one of them being the post count and the other is time-based. If you post a lot, the minimum will usually be the time-based one.

No what ? They who ?

Anyway, if you post trash during a whole year the activity will still increase.

Please read your quoted text, then my answer.

If after doing that it's still unclear, well, you're talking about replies increasing the activity.

So your reply doesn't make sense, because obviously any reply contributes to raising the activity. You just need to keep posting garbage each week, which is very easy to do so and makes the activity metric irrelevant.

Of course nothing stops people from filling the forum with junk but the activity counter is capped to an increase of 14 every two weeks, thus it doesn't inflate as quickly as a mere post count. You can make 10 junk posts a day totaling 140 posts in two weeks, yet your activity increase is limited.

Thanks, I know it is limited like that but I didn't remember the exact rate. This point was made in the original post, did you read that ?

What I'm asking for is to apply some simple rules to reduce junk-activity members.

I don't think it would make much of a difference. I believe we should just leave it as it is, it seems good enough that way.

+1 that is a great idea. thanks.

^ Note this is not a great idea just pointing out that +1 will be replaced with equally trivial but longer statements.

I agree with what he said. (Just what people will replace instead of just quoting someone or saying "this," so no, it won't work.

A discourse forum I'm a member of has a 20 character minimum size for posts (it may be discourse default, I dunno), so people do the obvious:

next we're going to not count anything in the off topic section! and then the Alternate cryptocurrencies because neither is bitcoin related!

i saw that, many users post like one word or just a smiley, and yet their activity increases

Yes spamming will not make your activity increase much in a short time because it also based on your time count

Believe it or not, there are 200 characters in that post. How much is it worth, though? 0.

Well, if you don't want it, imma gonna sell it on Bitmit.

It increases up to the next multiple of 14, then it stays static until 14 days have passed, then the mechanism is repeated.

LoL. I doubt there are people want to buy it. haha

Can someone explain to me how activity is calculated again ?
It would be a great help to newbs if you post that in the original post.

It's not complicated, every two weeks your activity increases by 14 assuming you've made at least one post.

Unless your post count is lower than that number.

Calculation of activity is set to repel scammers like you - you then have a hard time to rob somebody. ;)

What exactly I'm selling to scam anyone ? You're confusing yourself with me now, please don't do that again. Go create another thread for selling your scamwheel.

You claim to honor people for scammers.

I'm not scammer and we both know it.

My CoinWheel is no scam and we both know it.

You are scammer cuz you are trying to tell people that I'm scammer and you have no fucking proof.

gfy.

I don't know that you are not a scammer. Removed all the rest, but the reply is the same.

Are you aware what this topic is about ? By now I'm 100% sure you can't read at all, so it must be really hard for you to use this forum properly. Go ahead and create a topic on Scam accusations about me, but keep this thread with messages on topic.