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6821  Other / Meta / Re: Merit source observations on: September 04, 2019, 08:43:40 AM
Active is subject to multiple definitions. For example, @vod makes it 149.405, being that of the count of all profiles that have logged in within the last three months.

Your definition would be that of merited >= 2 merits gained in the last 30 days, and results in 1.145 distinct profiles (31/07/2019 .. early morning of 30/08/2019), with the following distribution:
It is just an assumption to see how merit circulated in the forum, and do current smerits allocation to merit sources per month enough for active and good users or not. Sticking with this assumption, and your simple analysis result, we can see that there are around 18 merits for each active and good users per 30 days, only from 131 merit sources. Some users might earn more than 18 merits per month, some others might earn less. It is not correct estimation, because there are so many bias factors, but at least from the estimation, I do think current sMerit supply from merit sources is enough for good users to rank up. The rest thing totally depends on their works.
Code:
. di 21045/1145
18.379913
Interesting finding that with the assumption (actively posting, and received >= 2 merits per 30 days), there are only 0.43% of forum users (at 2659437) are active, and good ones.  It makes me shocked, honestly. Cheesy
Code:
. di 1145/2659437*100
.04305423
6822  Other / Meta / Re: Merit source observations on: September 04, 2019, 04:09:53 AM
I don’t really keep track of who the Merit Sources are
< ... >
I therefore do not track nor try to infer each one’s allocation and how much of it they spend, although on an individual basis
Thank you for your reply, that gives detailed answer for @The Pharmacist's question, but honestly I don't have interest about those things. Because it is not my business, and I think we just let merit sources do their works. There is no good reasons to follow their works as sources, because they actually good users / sources, and know how to do their works, and months passed since the last remove of merit sources (one or two) due to abusements or misuses of merits from sources; not from their own request like @Vod.

Dataset in OP is good enough to give us an overview on merit sources and available smerits from them per month.
With current statistics:
- Total users (includes inactive ones too) at 2659437, due to Statistics center
- Total smerits for all sources per 30 days at 21045
There are 131 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 21045 sMerit per 30 days
It means within each 30 days, one user can get around 0.008 merit.
Code:
. di 21045/2659437
.00791333
However, if we assume that there are only 1 percent of those users ( ~ 26595 = 2659437/100) are active and good ones, each of them will get nearly 0.8 merits per 30 days from all sources.
Code:
. di 21045/(2659437/100)
.7913329
Yes, this is estimated one good users can get from merit sources, but they can earn more from non-merit-source users (with above assumptions). I don't believe the forum has around 27k active and good users.
If you can, please scrap figure on total active merited users last 30 days (active merited means receive above 2 merits).
6823  Other / Meta / Re: [Stats] Local Boards Activity on: September 04, 2019, 03:56:53 AM
< ... >
Excellent! Do you have plans to keep your threads update on daily basis?
If yes, I will support by making further analysis with your data you dump daily, will start doing this after your datapoints surpass 20 (20 days).
If you can add a statistics on daily merit circulated in boards, per day, it will be much interesting.
I want to have another topic for my collection, if I can get regularly updated data from your thread.
tranthidung's statistical threads on bitcointalk
 Wink
6824  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: DASH : News, Information and Discussion on: September 04, 2019, 03:25:06 AM
Both of the price chart and RSI indicator shows us we have been in period of bouncing back. Recovering strongly from current price or not, we all have not known because it is a long term scenario and depends on many factors, from DASH, and external factors like bitcoin as well as political and financial conditions globally. Anyway, I think we can think positively about altcoins' future, includes DASH, in weeks to come.
6825  Other / Archival / tranthidung, a self-made Hero member - Signature campaign management service on: September 04, 2019, 01:32:51 AM
You're great member of this forum and I have no doubts that you can be good campaign manager. But unfortunately, you probably will have hard time to be hired by someone. Number of campaign managers on this forum is probably higher than number of available campaigns. And usually projects prefer to hire most experienced managers like Hhampuz, yahoo or LoyceV. But you have nothing to lose and there is no harm to post your offer. Good luck.
P.S. I think this topic belongs to Services section because I saw other managers posted their threads there.
Your words mean a lot of thing for me, it gives me more strength to keep up my good works and dedicated contribution. You are right that I have nothing to lose with my Service thread, and if renowned managers can do it from their lower ranks than mine for now (Hero Member), I do believe that some day I will have opportunity to start my career as campaign manager.

Inititally, I created the topic in Service Announcement, then due to lack of interests, I moved it to Marketplace. My intention is moving it to what you told, Service child board, but I can not see that childboard in list of  available boards when clicking on move topic button. Do you have any experience with it? Or the forum only allows moving topics from boards to boards, not to child boards. Sorry, I saw it and and moved already.

Anyway, thank you.

I am available!
6826  Other / Meta / Re: A wave of bans: 400 yesterday, 300 the day before. What changed? on: September 03, 2019, 02:11:15 PM
@loyce, it has been a while, can you give me list of ban again after July, 21st until now?
 Maybe from rank jr.member+ would be good, since it's too much when you are putting newbie/brand new account as well on the list
It is normal to see abudant newbies or brandnew accounts in latest bans. Most of high ranked accounts banned months ago, around April and May. Their bans mostly come from their plagiarism in the past, months or years ago (that is what I saw in their ban appeal threads). After that massively ban phenomenon, I don't think users at high ranked stupid enough to take risks their accounts with copying and pasting, without sources. If they do this, they use their newbie / brandnew accounts. That reflects on results we have from LoyceV's data dump.
6827  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: September 03, 2019, 01:39:58 PM
Hello all WO citizens, you all should read it. I made this one with latest data update from VB1001.
Update:

ABSTRACT
(1) Last two months, Bitcoin fell ~4.5% in price, while figures for total replies, total pages, total views between last two periods (30/6/2019-31-7/2019 and 31/7/2019-31/8/2019) fell 24.8%, 31.3%, and 24.91%, respectively.  (Details, please see in the last table in the bottom of the post).
(2) In medians, figures for monthly new replies, views, and pages are 426942, 57218 and 277, respectively


Data source (from @VB1001):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg52028093#msg52028093
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg52029308#msg52029308
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg52325977#msg52325977


Converted dataset:
Code:
. list id day month2 year date rep repchange prep2 views viewchange pview2 pages pagechange ppages2 btc pbtc, abb(30)

     +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
     | id   day   month2   year        date      rep   repchange    prep2      views   viewchange   pview2   pages   pagechange   ppages2     btc     pbtc |
     |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  1. |  1    31       10   2017   31oct2017   361446           .        .   19386138            .        .   18703            .         .    6380        . |
  2. |  2    30       11   2017   30nov2017   368288        6842        .   19749672       363534        .   18415         -288         .    9786    53.39 |
  3. |  3    31       12   2017   31dec2017   380800       12512    82.87   20076512       326840   -10.09   19041          626         .   13186    34.74 |
  4. |  4    31        1   2018   31jan2018   386480        5680    -54.6   20118498        41986   -87.15   19325          284    -54.63   10138   -23.12 |
  5. |  5    28        2   2018   28feb2018   396480       10000    76.06   20185277        66779    59.05   19825          500     76.06   10629     4.84 |
     |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  6. |  6    31        3   2018   31mar2018   402460        5980    -40.2   20222795        37518   -43.82   20109          284     -43.2    7119   -33.02 |
  7. |  7    30        4   2018   30apr2018   407457        4997   -16.44   20247143        24348    -35.1   20288          179    -36.97    9275    30.29 |
  8. |  8    31        5   2018   31may2018   410507        3050   -38.96   20280891        33748    38.61   20526          238     32.96    7559    -18.5 |
  9. |  9    30        6   2018   30jun2018   416730        6223   104.03   20315481        34590     2.49   20787          261      9.66    6457   -14.58 |
 10. | 10    31        7   2018   31jul2018   419443        2713    -56.4   20341078        25597      -26   20975          188    -27.97    7848    21.54 |
     |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 11. | 11    31        8   2018   31aug2018   424622        5179     90.9   20413924        72846   184.59   21132          157    -16.49    6935   -11.63 |
 12. | 12    30        9   2018   30sep2018   426942        2320    -55.2   20474102        60178   -17.39   21288          156      -.64    6633    -4.35 |
 13. | 13    30       10   2018   30oct2018   430939        3997    72.28   20650285       176183   192.77   21447          159      1.92    6642      .14 |
 14. | 14    30       11   2018   30nov2018   437199        6260    56.62   20782977       132692   -24.69   21810          363     128.3    4015   -39.55 |
 15. | 15    31       12   2018   31dec2018   446510        9311    48.74   20926425       143448     8.11   22296          486     33.88    3800    -5.35 |
     |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 16. | 16    31        1   2019   31jan2019   452916        6406    -31.2   21006158        79733   -44.42   22563          267    -45.06    3459    -8.97 |
 17. | 17    28        2   2019   28feb2019   459605        6689     4.42   21042628        36470   -54.26   22974          411     53.93    3901    12.78 |
 18. | 18    31        3   2019   31mar2019   465823        6218    -7.04   21079099        36471        0   23292          318    -22.63    4103     5.18 |
 19. | 19    30        4   2019   30apr2019   473225        7402    19.04   21133357        54258    48.77   23662          370     16.35    5270    28.44 |
 20. | 20    31        5   2019   31may2019   480783        7558     2.11   21193583        60226       11   24040          378      2.16    8501    61.31 |
     |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 21. | 21    30        6   2019   30jun2019   488192        7409    -1.97   21256108        62525     3.82   24410          370     -2.12   11262    32.48 |
 22. | 22    31        7   2019   31jul2019   493567        5375   -27.45   21307690        51582    -17.5   24679          269     -27.3   10052   -10.74 |
 23. | 23    31        8   2019   31aug2019   497611        4044   -24.76   21343127        35437    -31.3   24881          202    -24.91    9605    -4.45 |
     +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Notes on variables:
- rep: total replies
- repchange: change of total replies between two months
- prep2: percent of change in rep (replies) between two continuous months.

- views: total views
- viewchange: change of total views between two months
- pview2: percent of change in total views (views) between two continuous months.

- pages: total pages
- pagechange: change of total pages between two months
- ppages2: percent of change in total pages (pages) between two continuous months.

- btc: BTC price
- pbtc: percent of change in BTC price (btc) between two continuous months.
Since this update, I use new variables, pview2, prep2, ppages2, because variables for percentage of changes between two months in OP look stupid, so I decided to change.
Now, let I explain the formula for variable prep2:
To make it simple, I have a simple dataset like:
Code:
month rep repchange prep2
1 10 na na
2 50 40 na
3 80 30 x
How to calculate x?
x = (80-50)/(50-10)*100
It means I calculate percentage of changes in two period: period 1 (from month 1 to month 2), period 2 (from month 2 to month 3)


Results:
Period of observations (22 months, Oct. 2017 - end Aug. 2019)

In medians, figures for monthly new replies, views, and pages are 6221, 57218 and 277, respectively
Code:
. tabstat rep repchange viewchange pagechange, s(n mean sd p50 p25 p75 min max) c(s)

    variable |         N      mean        sd       p50       p25       p75       min       max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         rep |        23  431653.3  40063.37    426942    402460    465823    361446    497611
   repchange |        22  6189.318  2385.798    6220.5      4997      7402      2320     12512
  viewchange |        22  88954.05  91983.42     57218     36470     79733     24348    363534
  pagechange |        22  280.8182  176.8509     276.5       188       370      -288       626
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Plots
Code:
. list id day month2 year date prep2 pview2 ppages2 pbtc, abb(30)

     +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
     | id   day   month2   year        date    prep2   pview2   ppages2     pbtc |
     |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  1. |  1    31       10   2017   31oct2017        .        .         .        . |
  2. |  2    30       11   2017   30nov2017        .        .         .    53.39 |
  3. |  3    31       12   2017   31dec2017    82.87   -10.09         .    34.74 |
  4. |  4    31        1   2018   31jan2018    -54.6   -87.15    -54.63   -23.12 |
  5. |  5    28        2   2018   28feb2018    76.06    59.05     76.06     4.84 |
     |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  6. |  6    31        3   2018   31mar2018    -40.2   -43.82     -43.2   -33.02 |
  7. |  7    30        4   2018   30apr2018   -16.44    -35.1    -36.97    30.29 |
  8. |  8    31        5   2018   31may2018   -38.96    38.61     32.96    -18.5 |
  9. |  9    30        6   2018   30jun2018   104.03     2.49      9.66   -14.58 |
 10. | 10    31        7   2018   31jul2018    -56.4      -26    -27.97    21.54 |
     |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 11. | 11    31        8   2018   31aug2018     90.9   184.59    -16.49   -11.63 |
 12. | 12    30        9   2018   30sep2018    -55.2   -17.39      -.64    -4.35 |
 13. | 13    30       10   2018   30oct2018    72.28   192.77      1.92      .14 |
 14. | 14    30       11   2018   30nov2018    56.62   -24.69     128.3   -39.55 |
 15. | 15    31       12   2018   31dec2018    48.74     8.11     33.88    -5.35 |
     |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 16. | 16    31        1   2019   31jan2019    -31.2   -44.42    -45.06    -8.97 |
 17. | 17    28        2   2019   28feb2019     4.42   -54.26     53.93    12.78 |
 18. | 18    31        3   2019   31mar2019    -7.04        0    -22.63     5.18 |
 19. | 19    30        4   2019   30apr2019    19.04    48.77     16.35    28.44 |
 20. | 20    31        5   2019   31may2019     2.11       11      2.16    61.31 |
     |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 21. | 21    30        6   2019   30jun2019    -1.97     3.82     -2.12    32.48 |
 22. | 22    31        7   2019   31jul2019   -27.45    -17.5     -27.3   -10.74 |
 23. | 23    31        8   2019   31aug2019   -24.76    -31.3    -24.91    -4.45 |
     +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
6828  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Bitcoin's Increasing Market Dominance on: September 03, 2019, 05:05:46 AM
Every day that Bitcoin's dominance rises or at least stays at this high levels shatters the confidence of altcoin holders - I visit /r/cryptocurrency from time to time and they are so depressed at the moment.
It is time to accumulate more good altcoins. Let's recall what happened with bitcoin and bitcoin enthusiasts in 2018? All or most of them depressed as same as altcoin enthusiasts now. I do think altcoin enthusiasts can learn from the very recent lesson from bitcoin. Unfortunately, if they hold bad altcoins, they should stop dreaming for aforementioned reasons (in my previous post).

They should know when to stop hoping without convincing reasons, and when to cut their painful losses from past wrong investments.
6829  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Thoughts on Bitcoin's Increasing Market Dominance on: September 03, 2019, 03:38:44 AM
the reason why this question keeps coming up for different users every day is that the thing they call "market dominance" has nothing to do with actual "dominance". if we define what that number means, i believe a big part of the question is answered.
in short what CMC is calling "dominance" is simply division of bitcoin's market cap (with its ~18 mil supply) by the total market cap of 2000-3000 altcoins (with their total supply of hundreds of trillions).
so obviously when bitcoin goes up $1 its market cap goes up $18 million but if those coins go up $1 their market cap goes up hundreds of trillions. so in order to go up the same amount in market cap as bitcoin they just have to increase in price a very tiny fraction of a $1 which is why that percentage which falsely referred to as "dominance" shrank in first place and that is also why it is rising back up again.
Perfect! I have my opinion as people incorrectly pay their attention on dominance, bitcoin or altcoins.
The true indicators for growth of bitcoin or altcoins is total volume. If we keep our minds neutral to see the fact of increases in dailly volume of bitcoin and altcoins since their all time highs in price values more than one year ago. This one, and the fact that most of altcoins has their volume fallen to nearly zero or zero, I do see the growth of altcoins, good ones, I meant.

If 2 years ago, we have 3000 thousands altcoins with all good volume, but now we have only 1000 altcoins that have daily volume, and their total daily volume increased compared to figures of 2 years ago, it is truly a good signal of growth, even their prices temporarily fluctuated in bottom ranges.

Bad altcoins actually comes to their death periods, and I do believe they won't have minor chances to return because investors have matured more significantly since the crashes of bitcoin and altcoins last two years. Even those shit altcoins boosted by their team by whichever shady methods, investors will be very careful to reinvest in those shit altcoins.

The era of shit altcoins have gone, from now on we will see good recoveries of good altcoins.
6830  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [Infographic] Three points to get merit (based on my experience) on: September 03, 2019, 03:12:08 AM
It's actually a good idea to stay connected with your local board (not just for merits) and I'm saying that based on what I experienced also. You get to interact with your countrymen and you also get a chance to meet them in local events.
It depends on situation of each local board. How users in that local board spam, and how helpful they are. If one local board only has spam, non-sense, pointless posts; there is no reason to stay with local board. Importantly, if someone have acceptable English reading skill, they should expand to international boards (with English), because most of helpful and lively updated things are in international boards.

If someone make a good thread, they will do make it in international board, then translate them in local language, or vice versca. In some cases, you can only find what you need with English-written posts or threads, and can not find them in local boards because people don't translate original threads into local languages.

I read a post from admin, that he felt regret to create Japanese local board, because spam, low-quality posts, and it is difficult for theymos to find good users whom can play as moderators for that board.
6831  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Ranking up is Possible! My top 11 Hints! on: September 03, 2019, 02:14:41 AM
Hello guys,
a few days back, while on holiday and travelling away from my usual places, I got my 100th merit!
Correct me if I am wrong, but I remembered that you were a Full Member when I already ranked up to Senior Member rank, then opened my merit give away months ago.
More than 70 sMerits available to give away (high strict rules) [Members only]
I quoted your post (in my merit give away thread) that was made on February 20, 2019.
Dumb question: do I qualify for this? Is full member a member?
So, your fastly journey to the 1000th merit extremely surprised me, TBH.
I have only closely reached my 600th.

Congratulations!
6832  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [Infographic] Three points to get merit (based on my experience) on: September 03, 2019, 02:08:54 AM
I have some ideas for you to improve your infographic. I give extra information for each of your three points.

Point #1. It should be revise as:
  • Help new users to Read and learn before compose posts/ threads.
  • Help them to know where they can get forum rules, types of offence when someone violate forum rules, what is pinned threads and importance of pinned threads in each boards/ child boards
I don't think that the suggestion to focus on local boards is good one because the forum is international one, and someone whom have good English skills enough, can join English-written boards.

Point #2. It should be revised as:
  • Reading and knowing how to search effectively (to find available answers, guides)
  • Reading about importance indicators of one account: Trust, feedback, and flag that relates to trustworthiness and scam history
  • Where to get most contentful and regularly updates on scam issues

Point #3. It should be revised as:
  • Try to help others and get help
  • Try not violate forum rules (spend spare time to read rules repeatedly)
  • Read, search, and read before asking/ discussing
  • Try to make creative threads/ posts, don't repeatedly write what others done without new creative/ valuable points
They should read my thread, too. I quoted some main points.
Promotion with merit system and new rank requirements. It's possible.
Quote
(1) Never begging for merits
(2) Spending most of your time to read and learn
(3) Never copy and paste without links to sources, or without quotes
(4) Never mind of bounties, campaigns when you are noobs
(5) Learn from inspirational stories. Learn from merited users, topics, posts
(6) Spend your time to improve your English, especially Reading and Writing skills
(7) Don't pay your attention on post-lenghth  (Ideas that I took from theymos' Writing a welcome message)
6833  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: DASH : News, Information and Discussion on: September 03, 2019, 01:35:07 AM
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Can Bitcoin Survive “China Mining Pool Attack” Without ChainLocks?
This is not what DASH community has to worry about, because DASH has good algorithm to fight against those sorts of attack. There are some people naively think that bitcoin is the King, and outstanding in crypto currency ecosystem, but they don't realize that there are some good altcoins that bring innovations for blockchain industry, such as Ethereum, Monero, and DASH.

If someone actually worry about that, why not switch their regular transactions from Bitcoin to DASH? Fees are much cheaper, instant send, and more advantageous things with DASH transactions.

I agree that there is no crypto can replace the King position of Bitcoin, but it is neither true nor smart to keep using Bitcoin as main coin for daily transactions.

BTW, if you have, please share the data on transaction history of bitcoin and DASH in Venezuela.
6834  Other / Meta / tranthidung's statistical threads on bitcointalk on: September 02, 2019, 03:19:34 PM
I created some statistical analyis threads on bitcointalk.org, so I think it is easier for me and others (whom have big interests in those threads) with a list of my threads. Today, I collected and listed them all in this thread.

Most of them will be regularly updated (weekly or monthly).

If you see anything incorrect, or typo in my threads, please let me know.



Important
Time Series Analysis on Distributed Merits in the forum (daily, weekly, monthly) (weekly udate)
Time Series on monthly statistics of forum (new users, new topics, new posts) (update when I have data)
[CLUBS] Top Merited-Users Classified into 4 Clubs (weekly update)
Interquartile range of intra-day merits with time series plot (weekly update)
Assumed monthly statistics on registered accounts of bitcointalk.org (2009-2019) (monthly update)
Some stats of forum in the WO thread (Oct. 2017 - Jul. 2019) (Monthly update)
Merit source observations (update when merit sources added/ removed)
Daily merits over local boards
Weekly earned merits (median) of top 100 merited users
One year anniversary of enhanced merit system
Stats on signatures worn by top 100 merited users (from 2019w23-2019w44)
Top-100 merited-artists in the 10th anniversary art contest (newest)
The Art Contest has effects on merit distribution. How about merit sources? (newest)
History of local boards (newest)
At-least-1 sent & earned merits users , excludes autobanned/ nuked. Stats! (newest)
List of the forum's admins/ global moderators/ staffs (newest)
Percentages of recent earned per total merits of artists in top-50-merited users (recently) (newest)
Stats on active & merit status of Donators & VIPs (newest)
Merit distributions over boards (24/1/2018 - 19/12/2019) (newest)
Impression counts for ads over years (Statistics) (newest)
Where receivers received merits from, and meriters sents merits to (newest)


Miscellaneous
Tracking the difference of merit circulations with Default Trust Changes (done)
6835  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Merit for Crypto (and other) Knowledge (no guide threads) on: September 02, 2019, 01:47:58 PM
I gave you one merit, because both two threads are good, but you don't need to delete your past application, and bump your application today with same content of deleted post.
6836  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [Take note] Important Dates Events ( 2019-2020) on: September 02, 2019, 01:46:10 PM
SEC is not important at all, as what relates to China. I don't think any of them are important for bitcoin and crypto in general. Price dumped due to SEC, nope, price pumped due to SEC, nope. Price of bitcoin and altcoins will rise or fall depend on their price cycle. SEC can not boost price to move up if a coin jumps in its bearish cycle.
If you only focus on news, you might get lost with crypto trading. In contrast, paying more time to look at instinct, hidden things from technical aspect of price chart.
6837  Other / Meta / Re: Merit source observations on: September 02, 2019, 01:05:25 PM
OP, this is good data to see, but I'm confused as to whether the sMerit is what's held by the merit sources or what the sources have distributed.  I looked for the answer to that in your post but perhaps I'm missing something.
My dataset only presents total merit sources and total smerits allocated to all those sources per each 30 days.
You can observe it there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=merit;stats=sources. For now, we have:
Code:
There are 131 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 21045 sMerit per 30 days
For your question, I do think @DdmrDdmr can give you an answer, but I don't know it will satisfy your curiousity or not. Because I believe he might only give you raw figures, and of course not exactly what you wanted.
He can give you total merits/ smerits earned, and distributed of each sources, but it is difficult to screen and differentiate between smerits get from earned merits and smerits get as sources from theymos.
Even DdmrDdmr can get it, he might not publicly disclose because core ideas of theymos is not give merit beggars more details to annoying begging merit sources.
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Looks like Theymos hasn't been adding a lot of new merit sources in the past year--I sort of figured as much, since I hadn't seen that many applications and hadn't heard about new sources being added.  But at least there are more now than there were last September, and since Meta hasn't been flooded with "how I earn meritz" threads lately, I'm assuming the situation isn't too bad.  When newbies are constantly whining about how they're not earning merits, you know there aren't enough being circulated.
As I know of, theymos pay more attention on merit source application in local boards, recent months.
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Might be good to overlay those graphs as well, but either way props for posting the data.
I actually made it with an initial OP, but there are huge gaps between to variables, meritsource and smerits, in hundreds and thousands, so combined plot looks not good.

Ok, fine!
Note:
- To make combined plot looks better, I created a new variable, meritsource100, that equals meritsource * 100
6838  Other / Meta / Re: Merit source growth history, if you know it, please help me on: September 02, 2019, 11:25:57 AM
I much appreciated all your help for my new thread.  Smiley
Merit source observations
I locked the thread.
6839  Other / Meta / Merit source observations on: September 02, 2019, 11:22:35 AM
Many months ago, on 24th January 2018, merit appeared in the forum, as airdropped merits (and sMerits) for grandfather accounts, then it has become a gift for good posters.
There is no benefits to beg for merits as well as merit sources, because merit beggars might get negative trust or bad feedback in return.

In the thread, I publish observations on merit source growth over months.
For more details, there are some threads to read:
    Merit source stats

Some helpful opinion of theymos on merit sources:

Certain users are designated as "merit sources". They can create new merit out of nothing, up to a limited number per month (which differs per source). I will not be posting a definitive list of merit sources (so that people don't bug them too much), though you'll soon figure out who they are if you pay attention.

Merit sources are free to reveal their source amounts, though I think it may be a bit unwise. While it will eventually become obvious roughly what the source amounts are from the stats, there's a huge difference between showing up in a "list of probable merit sources" and having a quote out there of you basically saying "I'm a merit source, come beg me for merit, complain about every merit I send, and accuse me of being part of the anti-X/pro-Y conspiracy."


Notes:
- Update will be made in last post, not in OP.
- If you find something, or discover incorrect data, please let me know.
- Date presents in the format: dd/mm/yyyy.
- Dates present in the dataset might not exactly the day when total merit sources reach those figures, they are just dates recorded arbitrarily by users.
- The first datapoint (24/1/2018), I got the smerits at 8125 smerits (it might be incorrect), from that post

Each source has a different limit per 30 days. The current average is 185, and in total up to 8125 merit could be created per month.
Nevertheless, I think it is correct, because about 4 hours after that post, theymos made this one, in which we see there was still 35 total merit sources



Dataset:
Code:
     +----------------------------------+
     |      date   meritsource   smerit |
     |----------------------------------|
  1. | 01may2024           109    32990 |
  2. | 22mar2024           108    32890 |
  3. | 28nov2023           109    33140 |
  4. | 31jul2023           109    33940 |
  5. | 11jul2022           110    33989 |
  6. | 06jul2021           111    34139 |
  7. | 28jun2020            97    21171 |
  8. | 15nov2019            98    21671 |
  9. | 14nov2019            90    18821 |
 10. | 30oct2019           130    20895 |
     |----------------------------------|
 11. | 27jun2019           131    21045 |
 12. | 15mar2019           130    20605 |
 13. | 06feb2019           122    20835 |
 14. | 05jan2019           123    20735 |
 15. | 22dec2018           120    22055 |
 16. | 17nov2018           119    22045 |
 17. | 17sep2018           120    23045 |
 18. | 11jul2018            83    19100 |
 19. | 06jul2018            82    18900 |
 20. | 18may2018            80    18500 |
     |----------------------------------|
 21. | 22mar2018            80    17800 |
 22. | 12mar2018            77    17650 |
 23. | 01mar2018            57    11975 |
 24. | 26jan2018            49     9025 |
 25. | 24jan2018            35     8125 |
     +----------------------------------+

Time series plots
6840  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Binance Phishing Quiz - What you need to know to protect yourself from phishing on: September 02, 2019, 07:31:04 AM
@dkbit98 made his thread with 13 phishing quizzes as of writing, including the Binance Phishing Quiz. I think you should add that helpful thread in yours.
[LEARN] Phishing Quizzes - Beginners & Experts
Sometimes, I do those quizzes as kinda retest my knowledge on phishing.
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