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Well sorry I came with this post today after my analysis with just recently created thread by hugeblack days ago I felt so ashamed of my self seeing that we have only one merits source which is CryptopreneurBrainboss (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1052091), although we are very much happy for at least for having a one out of none. But after going through the history of hugeblack saying report any quality post of yours and that of another gets me shading tears why we haven't been honored all this while by Theymos. Actually I can't question him for his actions towards our local board but it's something to be considered and look into it as a matter of urgency to remove this shameful acts from us.

I know vividly that few people had applied from our Localboard to help the growth and acceleration of members, to reduced the tension and attention of members from applying in such a thing whenever and wherever they found out such opportunity to review their post to gain merits. I know this is not just something a woman like me could just come out to handle it but I believe A mother like me always understand the cry of my baby whenever she's hungry and testy for something very needful to her life. So I keep it up for Theymos to also hear the cry of his children as I believe his our mother and father in this forum and he should know how testy and hunger we are currently to remove this shame from us, personally have also checked that of Fillippone Thread that says of review post, almost out +25 percent of applicants are from Nigerian Local board.

To prove that what I am saying is worth looking into is;


Except from below users which I have never factor them within Nigeria local Board


Do we have to look into the next phase of line which he had given just yesterday?
Yes they are also from Nigeria Local Board to proof you how quickly you need to attend to the request of our brothers who had since applied to be source in Nigerian local board


Believe me or not, other people who are reviewing post can also attest to the amount and numbers of people who keeps applying for a review on the personal thread are also from Nigeria Local Board and, I am sure if our request was granted I don't think we would still keep embarrassing ourselves for a review. Sincerely speaking I myself do need help so, I also applied for the review as well.

Below are users from our Local Board who had applied for merits source which I think it needs urgency to be accepted to;
1. From Igebotz (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1045971): Igebotz Nigerian Local Board Merit Source Application  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5462533.0)
2. From Charles-Tim (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2776678): Charles-Tim merit source application + Nigerian local board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5360200.0)

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Note: This post was created out of curiosity and the rate at which our people needs a helping hand to spread merits across our Nigeria local board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=275.0).
I didn't create this post to harassed anyone other than pleading to Theymos to removed us this shame from our eyes by honoring to the above mentioned applicants who had applied so long to became a merit source.

Thank you as for hearing our cry for so long.

Before listing a users application, make sure you take a look at it because Upgrade application has nothing to do with the Nigeria local board (and although he's a Nigerian I can't remember the last time he was active on that board) no offense dear. If theymos is looking to add more source atleast they should be those that are very active on the board and the two users above have our support and if Upgrade changes his mind and begin to be active on the local board he'll get my support but for now I think his application is for the general board (which I support for that aspect).

Ps: While on this matter I also need an increase theymos (my allocation is too poor).

Thank you for your corrections, I have just edited that user out anyway..
We are open for his contributions towards the local board, but however, as our people popular says "If a finger touches oil it surely affects all" meaning if upgrade application is being honored I don't think he would forget his people so soon just as Hugeblack is doing currently, he is from our locals but he is spreading out his merits to our locals and that of others as well.

How many people are active on a daily basis on the Nigerian local board?

I say this because in my local board we only have one active merit source, and another one that comes by from time to time, like once a month and leaves a few merits, but as we are at most a dozen active users there, to be honest I don't think we need more at the moment.

I've had a look at your board and I think there are more of you than us, so I agree that you need at least one more merit source.

theymos operates in a mysterious manner; the more you attempt to comprehend him, the less you understand.

As per usual, I'm out of Smerits; the number of great discussion on our local board is incredibly high, with little or no source to appreciate these posts.

Hugeblack, your assistance was exactly what we needed at this stage until we got to appreciate our own. I also thank EFS for the recent top-up, but it only lasted a day.  ;)

theymos we need urgent help over there!


An average of 100+ monthly active users, we had 130+ (https://ninjastic.space/search?after_date=2023-08-01T23%3A59%3A59&before_date=2023-08-31T23%3A59%3A59&board=275) active users last month.

I think that its obvious to everyone following local boards situation that Nigerian board is one of the few that could use few more merit sources. I will just leave here two charts, one that shows total amount of merit senders/receivers, and the one that shows merit/post ratio which confirms what OP is saying.



If he is not sharing merit now in your local board, why you assume he will start once he becomes merit source?


I don't know about the daily numbers, but on a monthly basis Nigerian local board is one of the most active ones with 121 members writing at least 1 post during July 2023.  

This thread here can fully explain http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5357434.0 how active we are in our local board and the above mentioned applicants are fully active on the local board. So if given them merits source I don't think any one of them wouldn't utilize it correctly as the way others are doing.

I will like to stress on this point that if not for anything else at least to save merit source from the endless PM's of applications of post reviews they are encumbered with particularly from members from the Nigeria (Naija) Local Board every now and then.

The metric will be that these constant number of PM's from the Nigeria Local Board will be drastically reduce as an increase number of LB merit source will analogously increase the activeness of Nigerians in their LB thread discussions as the rumoured excused has been that many of  their posts lacks merit reception due to no  LB merit source presence to see to these supposed quality threads/comments, therefore exerting 90/100 of their activeness in the forum to general boards.

Nigeria is a phenomenal nation and so is its people.
One thing I’ve been looking forward to is a possible grounding or creation of sub-boards to push for a more appreciation of the board and the discussions that follows there off. in the phase of looking towards what could be done in its organization,

It’s not over emphasized the activeness of Nigerians towards the forum and cryptospace as a whole. Having not just a single merit source but, merit source with a good enough allocations would serve the youngest local board and one of the most populated/active on the forum more in pushing for great contents and traffic.

Better still, we’ve got some good and active candidates that are versatile and have a face in the forum with their user. I vouch for users like CryptopreneurBrainboss on increased allocations haven’t been a great push towards the uplifting of Nigerians on the forum and the development of the board there in and the person of Igebotz who keeps tabs on users activities and coordination of the boards amongst for a merit source to the board.

Sending unsolicited pm is something very annoying to me and someone like me can't withstand to receive their bad response especially someone who isn't in a good mood to respond to someone might possibly get someone in an ignore list. I was so ashamed of myself to see how copious we are in applying for that in hugeblack thread it just as if that thread was raise basically for our local board poster, like I can't even imagine someone from another locals helping us out while we have able and reputable members that I have seen potential in them to manage the merits source position in our LB.

Yes I meant, those people are extremely good to be in that position why not give them a trial and see how they manage their allocation in the board, apart from that our brothers already requested for the increment of his allocation which I can see to be a very good move as well because having just a limited numbers of merits can't really go all round within the locals I do also find some post that worth meriting as well.
Theymos should remove this shame from our eyes and make more source from our board, especially Igebotz and Charles-Tim.

OP, thanks for putting this out here. You did noble.

But of course, we know it's deliberate. It's not as if he doesn't stroll the forum and read most of the things posted here. I want to believe theymos is applying one of Robert Greene's laws as outlined in his book –48 Laws of Power. The law I'm referring to is the one that talks about being unpredictable around people.

Thank you a zillion times. You've always shown support to the Nigeria struggle. Overtime, you've proved that. We saw it during our quest for a local board and now to asking for more merit sources. Thank you for this uncommon thing you do.

Now that you have pointed out, I think that's actually true and before now I never really knew he was even Nigerian because he hardly ever post there though am a victim myself but there was a particular time I was really active in our local board and it even suprises me to see how fast the Nigerian local board has thrived and grown so quickly. To be truthful at first when thymos actually granted us our wish by giving the Nigerian community her local board, I never thought the growth will be so rapid but I guess I was wrong in that because if there is one thing I have tend to notice is Nigerians always don disappoint and I believe if theymos do grant one request again, I believed our ocal board will even impress more and more.

I was only viewing it as local board member, but however there's no assurance or a guarantee to show he could extend his hands to our local board.
Although what hugeblack did made me have that positive mindset that he could extend his hands. All together you are right so lemme not presumed.

I admit that adding some merit source to your local board will allow more quality posts to get the merit they deserve. However, so far theymos haven't received a single merit source application which makes people ask about this, but I'm sure you can work around it wisely.

What I mean by this is that most of your local board users need to realize that improving the merit statistics on your local board is necessary for quality posts to get the merit they deserve. You all can focus on distributing sMerit in local board instead of spending it on local users of the same local in global board (including you), this is what I noticed with some local users of Nigeria. I do it for my own local board, of course it is part of my way to spread more merit in the local board although we also need some generous merit source.

I totally agree that the Nigerian local board needs a merit source or two to encourage the quality posters on that section. It is a very large community and is constantly growing with a population that is drawn towards innovative technologies like Bitcoin.
Theymos takes his time before making any changes and has taken a lot of time to add new sources or to increase the smerit quota of some of the existing sources.

I fully support the application of both Charles-Tim and Igehbotz.

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My merit source application was intended for the general board and is still the same now.
I like to meet wheever I can find good posts but find myself running out of smerits a lot and have to keep a few (<10) in case I come across a very deserving post.

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As a fellow African, I do approve of this message / merit application.

OP it is obviously clear that all you have noted are very much correct. I had to join you in doing a statistic review as well on the local board meriting and to be frank with you, Nigeria board lacks merit source. Little wonder upon the opening of local board meriting by hugeblack, the turn up were majorly Nigerians whom are lacking on merit in one way or the other. This has impede the fast development and growth of the board but Nigerians are much enthusiastic about this platform and hence didn't allow that to bother them much and it has been a success drive so far that a local board was achieved.
Now to remedy the situation, the Nigeria board would definitely need merit sources as her growth is fast rising to the point that Nigerians are lacking behind in merit as  there are lots of quality posters out there who are lacking in merits here.

Based on my findings as well, we have a merit source already in the person of   CryptopreneurBrainboss   but his merit allocation is not enough to serve the board hence we appeal to Theymos to increase his merit quota so as to aid him in doing his work as a merit source without any challenges. However, some Nigerians whom are much recognised and have contributed immensely to the development and growth of the local board have indicated interest by applying to becoming a merit source which is a good move and also a welcome development. If they are considered, I believe it would aid in the meriting of more quality local posts while mending the lapses of looking outside for merit which has made so many Nigerians here not to look into the local board.

Nevertheless, I am in full support of the merit application of igebotz and Charles-Tim of the Nigerian board origin and I pray their application is given the urgent attention it deserves.

Although I would like to see more merit sources but what I have noticed is that Nigerians are ranking up, it is true that it is difficult for those who only post in the local board but it is possible.

The analysis provided by Rikafip is the best to say that there is a need for merit sources and I hope the change is fast.


For now, as a simple solution, if you see a post worth merits, put the link in that thread. My source generates about +1,000 sMerits per month and I think that's enough for several local boards.

Cheers bud!

As someone who is part of another local board, I understand how important part of this forum they are, and how much they can help people all around the world. I wasn't new to bitcoin or forums when I first joined bitcointalk and I had no issues commucniating in English yet my local board was a big help so I can only imagine how confusing this place might be to those that are for the first time on a forum, new to bitcoin and have issues using English.

Growth of Nigerian board is a proof that theymos did a right thing by giving you your own local board and getting few more merit sources can only help in that as I think that you have a potential to surpass Turkish board and who knows, maybe even come close to Russian.


Their average 12 months post/merit ratio is ~0.3 which means it is indeed possible to rank up there, but harder than on many of the other local boards.

They're ranking up because of their activeness in the general board, Nigerians are one of the most active/quality members on the forum and that's reflecting on the rate at which they're ranking up. Many of them have left the local because there's no much merit there. And those who spend most of their time on the board don't get merited as much  as they'll do on the main board because 1, I'm the only merit source and 2, low source merit. I saw you have 1k+ monthly and I barely have over 120+ meanwhile we have over 1k posts monthly on the board and that means only 100+ (quality posts) of those can be merited (that's if I send only 1 merit each for each quality posts that I come across).

I have message theymos severally and when he was giving us the local baord I talked with him about the merit condition because that has been my allocation before the local board was created but his reply was that the forum isn't looking to add more merit to circulation and that's just frustrating to the local board but what can we do, most times I even keep my smerits earned from merit received for the baord just to keep the energy high on the board.

This should not be a reason to post or stop posting. The main motivation should be that you like it. Merits are an additional incentive.




@Rikafip's stats say otherwise, I quote


But I agree with you, it needs more improvement.


Instead of getting discouraged we can think of a compromise, I can give Nigerians LB about 150-200 merits per month, which means about 100 extra sMerit, just make a weekly list, PM me with it or through that thread and I'll look into it.

After about 3 to 6 months, if there is an improvement in the quality of the posts and the post/merit ratio, then you will have enough reason to claim a new source source with +200 Merit per month.

That sucks, but it just confirms smething that we suspected (or even knew) for some time, that he doesn't make any individual merit adjustments but instead he is doing it generally, and only when merit sent drops down significantly acoprss ther whole forum.

Last month 25727 merits were sent across the forum (which is very similar to the amount of merits sent after the last adjustment in July 2021 (26411) meaning there no significant drop. For example, prior to the last adjusment, 13289 merits were shared in May 2021 and only after that theymos reacted. Add on that fact that compared to the same time two years ago we now have ~50% less posts and active members so that means we might wait for quite some time for a new merit adjustment.

Merit data source: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ddmrddmr/viz/BitcointalkMeritDashboard/GlobalSummary

That's very thoughtful of you for such display of understanding. Accept my gratitude on beFull of the entire Naija board 🤗. I'm convinced it's a process you will, on hindsight, find fulfillment that you took this decision today.

Definitely, it will beat that threshold. The board has been very active and churning out constructive posts regardless of the austere merit it had been getting, you can imagine how it's going to be now that there's something compensatory on the way. The expectations will be high and the post quality will improve more.

Thank sir you..
I know from now Theymos will surprise us with something very special, which we can't wait to see that day come true!


Who knows if this is the reason why we are no long going further because other local posters might feels discouraged on the local board, maybe putting their efforts on the general boards.. I know certainly we must be recorded amongst the top if this was given to us by Theymos.


Sincerely speaking I must commend you for your efforts towards the local board, if not you and Igebotz I wouldn't had known how the local board could have been by now, considering the facts that most of the users aren't gaining enough merits from the local but yet you do keeps your smerits to spread across the local board. Well let have to be thankful at least for given you an allocation of +100 merits but indepthly this is not encouraging at some point if not that I am committed to the local board I wouldn't had have that momentum and energy to keep the fire burning, but what do I do; I so much love my people in way that what affects the "eyes surely affects the nose" that is to say, this is a race for all and not one and I know too well that something positives is on it's way coming.


I think you are a sent to us, I don't really know how to thank you all but the love you have in Nigeria will definitely land you a beautiful woman in my Nigeria, that is if you aren't yet married, I must say if not that I have been taken I don't mind giving you the love for your perfect efforts towards our board.
Well, sorry to put much interest but I have subsequently interacted with few users across the forum and their response weren't encouraging; meaning they felt dishearten for no progress towards their ranking..

But I do uses myself to encourage and gives them some instances on how I do scale through the forum to get to this point which at some point I never had this mindsets of getting to this level but I was also geared up by some members over here, this made me scale through. Although I can't say I am comfortable with my current position but I have to be thankful at least to had leave the full member rank to Sr. Member which I believe in few months will be looking at Hero.
Actually what keeps me going was the knowledge I do derived here on a regular basis, so why should I be discourage? I won't but keep going till Theymos give's us what we wanted.

By the way, I really wants to say thank you for the little lift you gave to me by your smerits.. love you for that. I never have the privilege to send a personal messages for a review because I wouldn't like to experience the bad side of any one here but was moved to post few of my link to your thread and I was honored within 24 hrs.

We Nigerians we need merit sources in our local board to help Nigerians, at least the statistics of Rikafip has proved that nigeria needs merit sources, in some local board some of the new users learn of forum and master it very well through their locals board are growing because of some of their posts that deserve merit is being merited by their merit sources, some times so many of other locals users don't posts in English board until they get more stronger with the experience they acquire in their local board. It's needful for thermos to make at least three or two active nigeria person a merit sources to help nigeria.

From the statistics of SmartGold01 you will know that the numbers of participants that submitted applications in hugeblack thread for meriting local boards active participants is from Nigeria, only that alone should showcase that Nigerians need support from thermos to grant our request.

You don't need to ask the total number of nigeria who is active in the local,  what you need to do, is to visit naija Local board by yourself and see how fast the thread of our discussion is being move and being active for discussion both the old threads and new established threads. Nigerians are active in locals more than in English discussing board's and mostly the new people in the forum. I think someone have give some figures as active Nigerians.

This statistics alone is a clear evidence by everyone that for nigeria to have more wings and have more popularity is when we have some people that will motivate us, some of nigeria people lack smerit to merit some of the quality posters because they don't have smerit, with this statistics if we have a merit we will be populated than this year 2023 active numbers.

You are right though so many Nigerians do like to post both in English board and local board, when you make a compiled list of nigeria who is not active in local boards they are few, and if have a merit sources many Nigerians will be posting more in the locals than the English board.even if Nigerians should be given a merit sources not everyone will be merited, mostly shitposters will not be expecting a merit sources to merit a trash posts, the one's that will benefit mostly is the people that make formative posts.

Hey dear you did a very good capturing concerning our local board looking too well it's a shameful thing as you may have seen it, we can't actually stop moving till we are being considered to give us more merits sources and also increased that of Brainboss I think with 3 quality source we are expected to grow exponentially than what we have recorded before. Rikafip thank you for the energy towards NLB and, hugeblack has really done well to have help us especially spreading his merits across the Nigerian Local Board. We hope for something positive from my Observation theymos operation this time around might shocked us.

You are right I think we have raised lot of voice towards this issues and our overall boss is not deaf not to hear us anymore. As few people already said he had his own ways of doing something meaning we can see it unexpectedly, Actually I was touched seeing the rate of applicants who tried to submit to gain merits shows the proved that we really lack merits.

I think this delay of Nigeria local board merits source application will be for their favour, if theymos can see those statistics as form of evidence that show that Nigeria local board legendary are doing a great job to help their local board users to improve quality Post. Let me use this opportunity to appreciate theymos for the good work he is doing to improve all the Bitcointalk local board for their users to get a good oriented of cryptocurrency, and Nigeria local board users use this medium to draw your attention to hear their cry to add Charles-Tim and Igebotz to join cryptopreneurBrainboss among the Nigeria local board merits source to keep the forum improving in the community.

Op you did a nice compilation for the merit source applications. Nigeria local board needs Merit Sources urgently.
Nigerians are more than other local board in thee hugeblack thread. Another question come to my mind is that, Will this reduce when finally the Nigeria local board application for merit sources are approved? Well that will be a discussion for another day. theymos has a lot of works to do and always busy but that is not withstanding for him to approve and allocate merits to sources. Probably he is working with time and the time to have not reached for him to approve merit sources. And if theymos did not approve these merit sources till December this year then it will be a surprise package and gifr for new year (2024).

Both igebotz and Rikafip monthly statistics has shown everything that Nigeria local board needs the Merit Sources urgently and also I will use this opportunity say this. The merit allocation for CryptopreneurBrainboss is too small, other Merit Sources mostly in the general boards shared Merit allocation of 500 or there about but CryptopreneurBrainboss is allocated with 50 or there about and this information is true then we are also appealing to theymos to increase the number for CryptopreneurBrainboss. Nigeria is growing rapidly in the Bitcoin Ecosystem and it is manifesting in the Bitcointalk Forum as well. We are also trying our best on the physical world to make sure that Nigerians adopt bitcoin for their daily business transactions

Op, I, as a very good Nigerian, I am so happy to see this discussion here on the META board because for over a long period of time, we as a Nigerian have been facing a dolor situation because we have having just 1 merit source with no much sendable merits, (if am not mistaking) and it's choking us, although there are 3 Nigerians who have already applied for merits source already and we all know, but @Theymos haven't respond to us and I don't know why, maybe @Theymos have been busy all these while that's why he's not having time to come to the forum, I believe that if @Theymos grants our local board wishes he will not be disturb until our Nigerian board is more bigger than it is now.
1 merit source alone can never reach out to the whole board no matter how active the person may be, because as a human, you must need time for yourself and all the rest. Besides, somebody must be doing a job to support themselves outside the forum. If only one merit source has 200 to 300 sendable merits, it will not reach out to every quality post. Just imagine a good quality post that is supposed to receive 10 merits receiving just 5 because of no merits.
Please @THEYMOS we are expecting approval from YoU.

 THANKS.

Good work OP, you did a great job putting this together. It seems to me that we have to be patient when it comes to requests that need the big man approval especially one that has to do with merits. The Sceptical Chymist as well as other merit sources have been asking for an increase to his monthly merit allocation but I don’t think anything has been done in that regard. It took us a long time to get a local board and I hope it won’t take that long to give us merit sources for our board.

Though I’d say that the most important charts that vouch for the case have already been show on this thread (number of Senders, number of Receivers, posts, merits, merit/post ratio, members per amount of posts, count of active members), a complementary view could be the following:


The chart shows nominally those that have sent merits to the local Nigerian board, focusing on 2023, and specifically on those that have sent over 25 sMerits (which is a low bar toll for YTD). The data shows, besides the local Merit Source, the presence of a bunch of meriting guests which are foreign to the local board, that manage to contribute somewhat to the merit toll awarded there. Locals will be able to interpret better the above data, though it does look like there aren’t all that many local effective meriters with a noticeable meriting capacity, considering the board has 100++ monthly active users.

Seriously! 😳 I did not know I am the highest smerit sender on that board this year if merit sources are excluded. I mean among Nigerians.

You have taken more than your sent smerits too So you have benefited more. ;D. Mathematically you have sent only 21 smerits at the moment 8)

https://talkimg.com/images/2023/09/08/mvhRa.png

How is this?
From the chart I am seeing myself at the top, does this shows how much merits I have received and send out out this while in our local board, seeing 3 other users and Charles-Tim below me.
I think I am yet to understand something correctly in this charts.

The tab shows the Merits received this year on the Nigerian Local board. The list on the left tolls the total amount per account, whilst the chart represents those selected to trace. In your case, you’ve received (as of last friday) 134 Merits on your local board.

The sent Merits on your local board are shown on a separate tab on the Merit Dashboard, as shown on this post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5465528.msg62813572#msg62813572) (you’ve sent 58 sMerits there as of last Friday for 2023).


Side note:
Here are some filters tailored to your profile, with regards to your local board (meritwise):

1) Number of received Merits on your local board, graphically compared to the top receivers there (2023 insofar):
https://public.tableau.com/shared/DM4X4RWHP?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link

2) Your received Merits per board (2023 insofar):
https://public.tableau.com/shared/QJFNR5KZQ?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link

3) Your received Merit TXs on your local board (2023 insofar):
https://public.tableau.com/shared/MJYN4Y7SG?:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link

Okay..
Thank you for your clarifications I understand now.

How did you multi -highlight the username column? I was only able to highlight only one.

You can either:

- Select multiple individual names from the list by keeping the <CTRL> key pressed and clicking on specific names.

- Select multiple adjacent names from the list by clicking on a first name, and then holding the <Shift> key whilst clicking on another name on the list. All names in the range between the former and the latter clicked names should end up selected.

I add my voice to the request by fellow Nigerians and other notable members of this forum, that agrees that indeed the Nigerian local board needs more merit source. Our board is always active with quality posts of relevant bitcoin discussions and other related topics. So if this request of more merit source is granted for our board, it will be a big boost for the members to increase their efforts in quality posts.

I want to thank Hugeblack, for focusing merit on local boards, this has helped especially new members like me who put efforts in the local board to rank up gradually. Hoping to see more merit source soon, to complement the efforts of Cryptopreneubrainboss.