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Hello After the new rule for newbie accounts we need some new stats, from the RAW file from theymos I' ve done this spreadsheet where we can see all transaction and find some users who sent 1 merit to owns alts to rank them up (or sell the merit).
It's more likely that one account with 20-30 txID with 1 merit is an abuser in some way.

The spreadsheet can be found here, I've ordered the transaction "FROM ID user" to users to see how many times the users will appear, I think this is the best solution, but if you want a copy to change something, you need to click on file and "save as copy" from there you can do whatever you want.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R3dE2huMLqjvC1JpFUimRvXvktBxjD-Sgqw61S5oYhk/edit?usp=sharing

For example this week we have over 3000 transaction with 1 merit, the hunting to find who has more it's begun.

https://puu.sh/Bz8D0/3d897bbb36.png

I tend to award merits on impulse, and I often think I should check to see what I've done. I must dig out the link and bookmark it.

Keep in mind, some links to messages can be broken since message can be deleted but the link from sender to receiver it will always work till the profile exist.

It's quite simple to find abusers with this file, like this one

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;u=1114852,

https://puu.sh/Bz9f1/3046fcd10f.png

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1502785
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2156342
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1271951

All 3 newbie jr accounts, with 1 point from him and same signature.

Need a deeper investigation, but it smells like an abuser.