For statistical presentation,
With quantitative variables, in the case of your topic, merit points; those sort of variables should be presented in the following style:
Average +/- standard deviation; and Median (Interquartile range).
Average and Median are not enough, and might lead to misinterpretation on real distribution of merit variable.
Median and Interquartile range are essential statistics for non-normal distribution variables.
You choose right statistics to desribe your variables, zentdex.

For your interest, I also give you link to helpful statistical guides from laerd:
Measures of central tendency

Mean, median, and mode should be used correctly with related supplemental statistics for central descriptions.

Hope it helps, zentdex.

Great work, mate!
You have made good contribution to the Digiwage community, especially for newcomers, who are not familiar with both the project and the forum, crypto ecosystem in general.

Being stimulate by your work, today I would like to share official links to several important channels of Digiwage project:
1) Ofiicial website of Digiwage Decentralized Freelance Workplace
2) Digiwage website
3) Block explorer
4) Github
5) Discord
6) Telegram channel
7) Twitter channel

Current available exchanges:
1) Crypto Bridge

Current masternode statistic websites:
1) Masternodes.onlin
2) Masternodes.pro
3) Mnode.club

And more sites to come.

Shitposters will never rank up with merit system and new rank requirements, believe me. Those sort of shitty users will only rank up if they abuse the system through merit exchanges, merit business, etc. Abusing like this will put their accounts under high risk of punishments (such as red tags, bans, etc.).

For your interest, you should improve yourself first to become a constructive user in the forum.
You should also follow 'famous' users, who ranked up after the launch of  merit system and learn from them (iasenko, zentdex, hugeblack, nullius, alias, slient26, etc.).

Best regards,

Thank you very much for the source of different beautiful colors, mate.
However, as you emphasized in the OP, users should not overuse the effects because it can make readers feel a litle bit annoying.
In my stance, this one is only (or mainly) helpful in designing signature with BBcodes.
Anyway, highly appreciate your time to do it because it shown your dedication to contribute to the forum.

Please stop kidding, mate.
My wallet has staked very well over the last few weeks.
My recommendations for you are:
- Backing up your wallet and keep the backup file safely somewhere (should save it in different safe locations).
- Closing your wallet.
- Rechecking your nodes to see whether they are the same as the OP, or you should simply deleting all your current nodes, and replace them all by nodes in the OP.
- Reinstalling your wallet, and remember to check staking icon (green or not). If not, closing your wallet and reopen it again.

Hope it helps!

Merit sources in the forum should be expanded to make a decentralized merit sources.
The most important reason is owners of those merit sources are human. Therefore, they need to take a rest and won't be able to join the forum 24/7.
And, decentralized merit sources also helpful in terms of allocated merits to different sources which located at different time zones globally.

Please stop talking non-sense. Lots of merit beggars wrote like this.

English broken at some extent. Next time, you should compose your threads with better writen-English.

The fact is merit-deserved threads will earn merits whatever threads published.

What are your main purposes to be a merit source in your local thread, honestly?
Another point is that local boards are amongst the most abused places in the forum, including account sellings, merit exchanges, etc.

I am young member in the forum, so it is my first time to see Theymos wears signature codes.
I will spend my time to read more about the project later today. However, Theymos maybe one of strong signal for good project.
Thanks for the ANN, Theymos.

Edited:
OMG. This is something like American educational style. Another joke after April Fools.
Thanks for making me laugh out loud, Theymos.

Very impressive, Theymos.
For now, I have known why lots of forum mods, staffs joined the educational campaign in the first several pages, including:





Change for what, lol? 

Hi sncc,
Firstly, thanks for great topic.
Secondly, would you mind giving me explanation why you chose the cutoff at 40 merit points, please.
Why not 20, 30, 50, or 100? It is likely a arbitrary cutoff to identify potential merit abusers.
Thank you, sncc.

For the OP author,
The topic might be helpful:
[Tips] Guide for forum search
Hope it helps next time when you have some questions to find available answers in the forum.

Each user has his/ her own favorite boards in the forum to join discussions, and the odds to find favorite, merit-deserved threads totally depend upon three components:
1) The strictness of readers: The stricter they are, the less probability they find threads which make them satisfied, then forcing them to send their sMerits away.
2) The quality of threads: The higher quality they are, the bigger opportunities to catch attention of other members and earn merits.
3) The level of abundant shitty posts in the forum: More shitty posts, less chances for users to find good ones because they simply been covered by shits.
Consequently, I don't see reasons to force users to send or automatically decay their sMerits.

The most important thing is doing this will put their accounts under extremely high risks of red tags, bans by admin or forum mods.
They won't foolishly do this to get additional several hundreds of dollars.
However, there are also several higher ranked users who don't care about signature campaigns, bounties. They simply do their jobs in the forum.

Merits have actually been circulated in the forum. What did you mean?

It is good to see merit circulation like this because it shows that merit system has actually had real positive effects on shitposters, who are not able to earn merits through their threads.

There are abundant threads with the same ideas as yours, and I feel tired of them. Please stop it, and start reading more to be able to compose more constructive, informative threads, mate.

And your are one of rubbish posters.  

Let's them freely do what they wanted, then they will get what they deserved.

In reality, merits are invaluable for someone who need them, then you should not called such prices are over- or under-valued. Nevertheless, falling into merit business should be avoided somehow. In my stance, never should do this.
Furthermore, you should pay your attention on reading forum rules, forum structures, its basic/ essential functions, and helpful, informative available topics. You should choose the right things, most necessary to do in your early period as forum members. Please don't fall into merits, and stupid related questions like "How to get Merits? What should I do to earn merits? Lots of people abused merit systems, why have they not got punishments?" All of those sort of questions are non-sense, stupid in my opinion.

There are lots of forked coins from different algorithms. What's happened with them?
Of course, at the moment, each person has different point of view about Callisto project.
But, only time will answer the question, who are right?
So, why not wait for the first exchange for Callisto, exception shitty Yobit, to see what will actually happen with Callisto?
I don't see reasons to fall into deeply arguments here, currently.

If I remember exactly, Theymos stated about this issue in the ANN topic of merit ystem, which has title "Merit system and new rank requirements".
Sorry, I have checked the topic, which has not mentioned about this. But I believe that I read it somewhere.
By the way, Theymos should add the basic information about the operational mechanism  of merit system to the OP of the topic for newcomers.

The real problem is circulating sMerits between friends (they are mostly alt-accounts and main accounts) mainly rewarded those sMerits to extremely low-quality threads. It is the problem.
If someone, even they are your friends, can create constructive threads, which deserved Merits. It's doesn't matter who send those threads merits.
just do whatever they want, but please remember that merit system was launched to stimulate quality of threads in the forum.

No, you are wrong, fella. Shit posters will keep doing this, because they have been still earn money from low-quality, bad-managed campaigns.
I don't remember exactly where I read the information, but Theymos, the forum admin, said that they have two possible plans for the newcomers of the forum:
He will give newcomers two options:
1) Only focus on earning money and stick on bounties boards. Choosing the one, newcomers have to be at least Junior members to post, and are now allowable to join serious boards after being Junior members.
2) Focus on getting information, and can post anywhere from Newbie.
Please remember that I don't remember exact information, so what I wrote maybe incorrect at some extents.

Notes: I will edit my thread with original contents from Theymos thread when I found it later.

The first fork from Bitcoin, BitcoinCash is the most reasonably fork. All the rest are probably just a way to earn free money by smart tactics which started by pools owners, Bitman, etc.

By now, no fork from Bytebal, but as you said, someone who have willingness to fork can certainly for the coin from its source codes.

It is likely that merit system has made significant impacts on account farmers. Something like they stop attention to make new alt-accounts.
Furthermore, several account farms have been detected and got punishments from moderators. This is another good impact of merit sytem in terms of cleaning the forum a bit.

It is just a theory, but you maybe right.