True, people in Croatia don't see us as one of the contenders (me included) as it's not the same team as it was in Russia but still I expected from players like Modric, Brozovic and Kovacic to control the middle, but I guess that was too much to ask . Regarding England, they don't look any better than they were in previous years.

Generally, for us goal is always to reach the 2nd round, and anything above that is bonus. This year is no exception.


Yep. Unfortunately, he can't do everything by himself. Vrsaljko was especially bad, by far the worst player on the pitch, followed by the completely lost Brozovic.

After watching them today against Croatia, I honestly don't see how they can win Euro. I mean, we (Croatia) were absolutely horrendous, basically all team beside maybe Modric and one or two players were utter shit. Best of all, by some projections it's even better to finish 2nd in the group, and avoid some tough teams in the next round, so not all is lost for Croatia, but after what I saw today I am not the optimist at all.

Gonna miss Austria vs North Macedonia and then watch Netherlands vs Ukraine.

Mlade snage napadaju. Drago mi je vidjet da se povremeno pojavi i koji novi clan koji ima volje obdje sa nama piskarati. Sto se tice Eura, nikako se ne mogu ufurat u to raspolozenje. Em skoro prazne tribine, em ovaj debilni sistem. Pa jos na to i ono sranje jucer sa Eriksonom..



Da, moguce da je i njegov manja aktivnost malo smanjila kolicinu merita, ali realno  gledajuci, i vecina nas je ipak manje aktivna nego prije tako da nije da se pisu tone kvalitetnih postova koji ostaju bez merita. Ali dobro, bolje i tako "organski" nego da se izmislja topla voda.

Sto se tice opcenito merit sourca, theymos ce morati prije ili kasnije to malo "postelati" jer ima jakih merit sourceva koji nisu aktivni na forumu i godinu dana, sto naravno jako smanjuje kolicinu podijeljenog merita koja je zadnjih par mesece na rekordno niskim razinama.

Vrijeme za jos jednu (dugo iscekivanu  ) mjesecnu analizu naseg boarda. Standardno, podaci za chartove su preuzeti sa @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboardana kojeg mozete baciti ako ako vas zanimaju raznorazni detalji.

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Broj postova  u periodu 01.05.-31.05.

Nakon par mjeseci konstantog pada broja postova, ovaj put se to zaustavilo te smo imali i mali rast u odnosu na 4/2021. I dalje je to daleko od nasih boljih mjeseci, ali i tih sedamstotinjak postova je skroz solidna cifra s obzriom na generalnu situaciju na forumu koja nije bajna po tom pitanju. Uostalom, bolje kvaliteta, nego kvantiteta pa da imamo hrpu ekipe koja pise pizdarije na altcoin sekciji o kojekakvih shicoinima, ili da imamo circlejerk i glupe rasprave kakvih ne nedostaje na engleskom dijelu foruma.






Ovako to izgleda na ostalim boardovima, a mi se i dalje standardno drzimo u gornjoj polovici. Na vrhu su i dalje Turci, kod kojih ocito raste kripto popularnost sto im raste inflacija, i sto ih vlada vise gazi sa glupim zakonima sa kojima otezeva koristenje kripta. Iza njih su standardno Rusi (oni su u biti aktivniji nego sto chart pokazuje, zbog velikog broja obrisanih postova) te Njemci, a i Portugalci se dizu. U biti, cudi me da oni nisu i aktivniji na forumu jer je kripto dosta popularan u Brazilu, takodjer zbog jake inflacije i generalno lose ekonomske situacije.

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Analiza merita za period 01.05 -31.05.

U odnosu na prosli mjesec, imamo pad od 14 merita ( sa 105 na 91) sto ovako na prvu nije puno, ali je ipak 10%. To otprilike prati i generalu situaciju na ostalim lokalnim boardovima, te na forumu opcenito, a mislimd a ce tako i ostati sve dok theymos ne uvede nove sourceve, ili poveca merit postojecima.






Sto se tice usporedbe sa ostalim boardovima, tu smo i dalje negdje oko sredine i to samo zato sto sam uklucio i par lokalnih zajednica koje nemaju svoj board. Standardna imena su na vrhu, kao i svaki mjesec do sada.

Iz nekog razloga forum mi baca error kad hocu sherati chart sa merit/post ratiom, bez obzira da li uplodada sa imgurom ili postimages sajtom, tako da cu taj chart dodati kad skuzim sta radi probleme.

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I za kraj, vrijeme da se spomenu i clanovi koji odrzavaju ovaj nas dio foruma zivim a lista je napravljena uz pomoc @TryNinja ninjastic.space. Slackovica moramo cuvati kao oko u glavi

1. slackovic [99]
2. badger27 [65]
3. Daniel91 [53]
4. Trofo [51]
5. btcltcdigger [50]
6. casperBGD [48]
7. FatFork [35]
8. CroBoy12 [34]
9. dkbit98 [25]
10. cryptofrka [23]
11. Pmalek [17]
12. Rikafip [17]
13. sbogovac [16]
14. Edo_Fazlinovic [15]
15. Heehoo [11]
16. Domchi [10]
17. big_daddy [8]
18. pandaa32 [8]
19. Stalker22 [7]
20. ovcijisir [7]
21. Lucius [6]
22. TheNineClub [6]
23. freigeist [5]
24. BitGoba [4]
25. Bitcoin Store [4]
26. daddyneeks [4]
27. examplens [4]
28. Nenad65 [3]
29. Parazyd [3]
30. betplacer20 [3]
31. Goxx98 [2]
32. Ivan___ [2]
33. MikeCro [2]
34. marlboroza [2]
35. seljo [2]
36. Babatu [1]
37. Krastavac [1]
38. Pixavz [1]
39. campi91 [1]
40. pacoc [1]
41. sunce33 [1]

Exactly this.

It's like we don't have enough social platforms that are swarmed with videos, images and gifs, and now we need the same thing here on bitcointalk. I can only imagine the amount of mess if every single brand new account is able to share the image (considering the fact that vast majority of new account are made for abusing bounty campaigns, or some other similarly dodgy stuff) and as other before me said, it would be an oversized one, since newbies (and often even more experienced members) don't pay attention to that.

And how exactly is posting images crucial to your form activity that you can't wait to become Jr Member, which if you are legit member shouldn't take more than a month or two. The only situation in which I see being able to post images right from the start is if you wanna promote some business or service, and in that case you might consider paying for copper membership which will remove some of the Newbie restrictions


Newbies getting banned just because posting some harmless link? First time I hear about this.

Yeah I know about the differences, and I am aware of the numbers on ninjastic.space, I check them every month while making that list of the most active users per local board. I said in one of my previous posts when I gonna start using ninjastic.space for the post count. Until then, plan is to stick with Merit Dashboard.

Generally I am careful when sending a merit to a newbie, but then again I have very limited amount of merit so it makes it much easier for me to do something like that. I do agree that there was an obvious account farm active in that thread, but not everyone cares about checking accounts prior sending merit, especially if they have bigger monthly allocation.


Yep, that it is an account farm without a doubt, but as you said, so far they haven't started doing bounty, shilling in threads or any of the other typical stuff they do. Sooner or later they will probably start doing something as you don't make bunch of accounts for no purpose.

My guess is that person behind those sock puppet accounts saw that there is some merit being shared in that topic, so he tried his luck with couple of accounts. Some got merit, some didn't.


Thing is, even if you occasionally give some fake Newbie account merit or two (which is bound to happen if you are merit source and like to give merit to Newbies) in the grand scheme of things it doesn't mean much, as shitposter will have a hard time reaching  higher ranks so I think that's why no one cares much about it.

And people will figure that out after their posts gets deleted enough time. In the 2nd example of yours, user @Delightcrypto1 bumped thread that was inactive for couple of months. I reported the post (that got deleted pretty fast, ) for bumping inactive thread but while waiting for post to gets deleted, few more were written, and conversation went on.


Imho, best is to simply report post or two, just to try it out. And if its marked as good, then continue doing do.

Some members are probably doing that (or at least trying), thinking that it might increase their chance of staying in the campaign, or getting into new one. But mostly this is just sort of "thank you" for work done etc.

Doing that imho is not the best way to use your merit (as I said before), but I don't think that it would be good for forum to start picking on each of the ways someone spends the merit as it may bring more harm than good. Who in their right mind would want to be a merit source if you have to think few times before sending merit to someone, and how its going to be perceived.


You were part of that campaign for 9 weeks, and 7 times you got the bonus (well deserved I must say, you are quality poster), without you giving merits each time you were picked up. I was also picked up many times in the last year since I was part of the campaign without giving merit for that (at least I don't remember doing that) so were the others. So I don't think that giving merit will increase  chances at all, at least not in the eyes of the manager.

Since OP got banned for plagiarism ( ironic considering he started this thread) he won't be able to answer your questions, but most obvious reason is ignorance. Anyway, @nullius already explained this issue earlier in the thread and root of the word "plagiarism"

Same can be said about image upload on imgur (or anything else for that matter). I am pretty sure that not everyone knows about it, and those that know, probably had to ask someone, or maybe saw it somewhere.

I know that not everyone knows about this way to resize the images, but somehow I thought that this is pretty much common knowledge for anyone with some forum experience.

Yeah that's what I was thinking too, they simply don't wanna open that pandora box or set any kind of precedent on image plagiarism, no matter how obvious it is, and no matter the evidence.  After all, that's why I probably didn't get any feedback from forum staff on that case.

I wonder if it would end up the same way if someone copied image from someone on the forum, and claim to be his own.

Thanks!


Haha, I know the feeling, I also have a very hectic schedule for the last couple of months and its affecting my posting habits as well. I used to wait every first Friday of the month for @DdmrDdmr to update his merit dashboard  so I can start working on this imemdiately, and now it takes me couple of days to make this.

Your analysis of Italian board is extremely detailed and I am sure it takes a lot of time to compile all that, so I am not surprised that you are postponing it, as I am often doing the same for Croatian board, albeit its way less detailed than yours.

On bitcointalk, even if you prove image plagiarism, and plagiarist admits it, he still won't get banned, like in this case Shouldn't this be treated as an obvious plagiarism case?. Can;t be more blatant that that, with all the evidence needed, yet user avoided ban. Yet, if he copied some insignificant sentence, he would end up getting banned. Doesn't make much sense to me, but it is what it is.



Isn't image resizing on bitcointalk pretty simple and straightforward? You just add either width or height number in that "[Img width/height=xyz]" bracket and thats about it? Like 2 seconds work.

Another month is behind us, time to see some local boards numbers!

As always, charts were made using data provided by @DdmrDdmr via his Merit Dashboard, which I suggest you should check if you want more in-depth look at the specific local board.

Communities that are marked with "*" are those without local board, but I think that they deserve mention, at least those most active ones that have some chances getting their own local board in the future.

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Post activity per local board during May 2021

After few months of decline, this time local boards have a slight increased total number of posts, from 23391 to 24300, but it is increase nevertheless. No change at the top, Turkish board was the most active one like in previous months, followed by the Russian (which again had high amount of deleted/removed post that affected their total number significantly) and German boards.

It's nice to see that Portuguese board is increasing activity month after month, and same can be said about two communities without local board, Nigerian and especially Pakistan that are having very solid numbers as well, given the difficulty of writing everything in the same thread. Might be the time for forum staff to consider adding few more local boards and help those communities to further develop.

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Merit shared per local board during May 2021

Despite the increase in posting activity, total amount of merits shared on local boards went down, from 4303 during April to 3929 in May, which is ~9% decrease. Majority of  boards had more or less similar numbers like in April, with Russian board at the top like in previous months, while German board had pretty significant decrease for such a big board. Something weird is happening with Pilipinas board too, as they had only 20 merits shared, which is very low for their post amount.

Among boards that increased amount of merits shared, Nigerian board sticks out. While in April they shared only 2 merits, last month it went up to 69 merits.

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Merit senders/receivers per local board during May 2021

Another self explanatory chart, just to show amount of members that are part of the each board's merit activity. Naturally, more merit usually means more members involved, but there are are always few boards that have very big "merit network", relative to the amount of merit that they shared.

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Merit/Post ratio per local board for May 2021

Last but not the least in this series of charts, merit/post ratio chart. Usual names are at the top, and same can be same about the bottom. Maybe its time for some boards to get more merit sources.

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The most active members during May 2021 per local board

For the end of this monthly overview, list of most active members of each local board, done with the data from @TryNinja ninjastic.space

Russian	|	Turkish	|	German	|	Italian	|	French	|	Portuguese	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
D-oN_ [208]	|	meser# [276]	|	mole0815 [182]	|	Paolo.Demidov [159]	|	Yaplatu [96]	|	joker_josue [214]	|
Ratimov [167]	|	RaltcoinsB [273]	|	bct_ail [171]	|	fillippone [143]	|	Melja [63]	|	TryNinja [185]	|
Julien_Olynpic [164]	|	trendcoin [272]	|	-doubleU- [109]	|	babo [98]	|	Saint-loup [55]	|	sabotag3x [153]	|
The0ldl_lser [123]	|	ZekiBeyy [270]	|	thandie [103]	|	Plutosky [71]	|	elma [53]	|	bitmover [116]	|
zxcvb988 [122]	|	ajanwalker [253]	|	Buchi-88 [96]	|	jack0m [50]	|	GrosWesh [51]	|	rdluffy [114]	|
AlexLvov [113]	|	mandown [253]	|	Real-Duke [94]	|	Ale88 [49]	|	LeGaulois [51]	|	Paredao [90]	|
Smartprofit [105]	|	Myrina [251]	|	Unknown01 [94]	|	duesoldi [46]	|	Danydee [32]	|	alegotardo [85]	|
Snork1979 [101]	|	verbakalim [247]	|	cygan [92]	|	alexrossi [45]	|	asche [29]	|	tg88 [82]	|
safar1980 [99]	|	execijutiere [245]	|	1miau [90]	|	acquafredda [33]	|	patrickus [27]	|	gagux123 [66]	|
my luck [98]	|	1kodumtek7 [234]	|	Soonandwaite [89]	|	elle777 [32]	|	Halab [26]	|	Lucasgabd [63]	|

Indonesian	|	Spanish	|	Croatian	|	Pilipinas	|	Arabic	|	Polish	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
Husna QA [69]	|	DdmrDdmr [109]	|	slackovic [99]	|	blockman [41]	|	yhiaali3 [16]	|	cygan [10]	|
khiholangkang [64]	|	famososMuertos [58]	|	badger27 [65]	|	Text [40]	|	vinca BK. [15]	|	wwzsocki [10]	|
joniboini [63]	|	LUCKMCFLY [37]	|	Daniel91 [53]	|	Chipard [39]	|	OmegaStarScream [14]	|	Tytanowy Janusz [9]	|
MAAManda [59]	|	rig4hodlers [29]	|	Trofo [51]	|	peter0425 [38]	|	DIA7 [13]	|	malevolent [7]	|
DroomieChikito [57]	|	Silberman [27]	|	btcltcdigger [50]	|	Baofeng [33]	|	khaled0111 [11]	|	lokas0506 [6]	|
abhiseshakana [53]	|	Hispo [20]	|	casperBGD [48]	|	mirakal [29]	|	Crypto Eng. [10]	|	_ZET_ [4]	|
roycilik [53]	|	seoincorporation [20]	|	FatFork [35]	|	Eureka_07 [28]	|	Husires [9]	|	Flangler [3]	|
masulum [51]	|	Artemis3 [19]	|	CroBoy12 [34]	|	Uragonz [26]	|	NotATether [8]	|	garlonicon [3]	|
blue Snow [46]	|	Wimex [12]	|	dkbit98 [25]	|	iTradeChips [22]	|	bitcoinarabic [8]	|	tumis [3]	|
mamesso [46]	|	d5000 [11]	|	cryptofrka [23]	|	Fredomago [19]	|	$ISLM [6]	|	JFoxOne [2]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
GazetaBitcoin [23]	|	UKprod [9]	|	cryptosize [15]	|
NeuroticFish [21]	|	ANKIT007 [8]	|	chek2fire [11]	|
20kevin20 [20]	|	Manish2809 [8]	|	alexyfad [5]	|
IonCreanga [10]	|	iamsheikhadil [8]	|	lowbander801 [5]	|
UMM2802 [6]	|	JoshuaMayo1982 [5]	|	BlackHatCoiner [3]	|
Rizzrack [4]	|	Himalaya773 [4]	|	bmxakias [3]	|
3dOOm [3]	|	Rideus [4]	|	siopis [3]	|
pandorian [3]	|	coin press turbo [4]	|	vapapgr [3]	|
Wingger [2]	|	vennali [4]	|	Aggelos1914 [2]	|
CostinRo [1]	|	Amz121 [3]	|	Dimitris [2]	|

Worst of all, he goes around and bumps threads that were inactive for months (which I reported)  without adding anything new and just writing some generic crap. It that's some merit farming attempt, its pretty weak one.

Some short temporary ban should be issued for accounts like that one.

If you feel like that, then report merit sources doing that. You won't have much issues finding some cases. As I said, I don't think that it's the best way to use merit, but I'm not sure that theymos wants to meddle too much into that, as people are sharing merit for all sorts of things nowadays.

I always cringe when I see someone  meriting manager for sending the payment lol. I wouldn't really call it merit abuse, but maybe not the best way of using the merit. Then again, people nowadays use merit for all sorts of things, not necessarily for quality/helpful posts.

Oh yeah, that standard story about "hard work" which in reality consists of 5 minutes per week for tweets, and a little bit longer than that for paraphrased or text spinned article. That of course doesn't mean that they shouldn't be paid for the work done, but they should stop kidding themselves that what they do is hard, or that is crucial for project's success.