Activity & new membergroup limits

[justusranvier]

Is anyone unhappy with the change besides people whose accounts are less than three months old?

[QuestionAuthority]

I like you but please be quiet you're killing my business plan. Didn't you hear theymos. He doesn't want your help.

I believe theymos' question "how is that better?" wasn't rhetorical but rather an honest effort to understand what the best solution is.

I was going to suggest something but I see Meni already said something like it. Right now, the system isn't very smart - it's still suspect able to "binge posting".

Every single post should give you up to 1 activity, but the actual amount it gives depends on the time since your last post.

For example, if your last post was 4 minutes ago, another post will add ~0.01. If your last post was 4 hours ago, another post would add ~0.7. If your last post was 2 days ago, another post would add 1. If your post last was 14 months ago, another post would add 1.

There are issues with this as well. There is nothing wrong with two posts 4 minutes apart; the problem is if you have 100 posts with 4 minutes between each. The scoring should take that into account and penalize only over a larger scale.

I know I was just teasing. I have a weird delivery sometimes. If you look at my previous posts I saw that you had a solution. It would be pretty easy right now to game this system for profit.

[jackjack]

Thank you
So now you need to be active for:
- more than a year to be hero 7 Months
- more than six months to be senior 3.5 Months
- more than one month to be full member

I really like that

Fixed.

No
Are calculators that hard to use?
Oh wait you don't even need a calculator

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

Thank you
So now you need to be active for:
- more than a year to be hero 7 Months
- more than six months to be senior 3.5 Months
- more than one month to be full member

I really like that

Fixed.

No
Are calculators that hard to use?
Oh wait you don't even need a calculator

400 / 14 / 4.34812 = 6 months and 3 weeks

etc.

[r3wt]

Is anyone unhappy with the change besides people whose accounts are less than three months old?

eh i'm not really mad about it, and my account isn't 3 old. i suspect that some people might have an inferiority complex when it comes to how they percieve themselves on the forum. I lost my hero account but i'm not bitchin. IMO post count was way to low for a hero account to begin with. I like the change.

[jackjack]

Thank you
So now you need to be active for:
- more than a year to be hero 7 Months
- more than six months to be senior 3.5 Months
- more than one month to be full member

I really like that

Fixed.

No
Are calculators that hard to use?
Oh wait you don't even need a calculator

400 / 14 / 4.34812 = 6 months and 3 weeks

etc.

Where does 4.34812 come from?

time = number of two-week periods in which you've posted since your registration
activity = min(time * 14, posts)

time*14=400
time=400/14
number of two-week periods in which you've posted since your registration=400/14
two weeks=14
min number of days=400/14*14

[hobbes]

Maybe I'll add a new group between Jr. Member and Full member. What should it be called?

What about making the names more fun and Bitcoin related?

Like here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177348  Could be inspired by technical cryptocurrency terms...

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

Thank you
So now you need to be active for:
- more than a year to be hero 7 Months
- more than six months to be senior 3.5 Months
- more than one month to be full member

I really like that

Fixed.

No
Are calculators that hard to use?
Oh wait you don't even need a calculator

400 / 14 / 4.34812 = 6 months and 3 weeks

etc.

Where does 4.34812 come from?

time = number of two-week periods in which you've posted since your registration
activity = min(time * 14, posts)

time*14=400
time=400/14
number of two-week periods in which you've posted since your registration=400/14
two weeks=14
min number of days=400/14*14

Oops - 4.34812 was the number of weeks in a month, but this is actually fortnight.

[r3wt]

Oops - 4.34812 was the number of weeks in a month, but this is actually fortnight.

Man, i haven't heard that term in a fortnight.

[dogie]

I will sell this account to the highest bidder.

Name:   Al the Alpaca
Posts:   128
Activity:   128
Position:   Full Member
Date Registered:   July 09, 2012, 01:25:01 AM

I have 6x the posts, but because he has an older account which he has actually been very inactive on... = higher activity. The senses, they burn.

[freedomno1]

I will sell this account to the highest bidder.

Name:   Al the Alpaca
Posts:   128
Activity:   128
Position:   Full Member
Date Registered:   July 09, 2012, 01:25:01 AM

25 cents. final offer

Lol 1 Shiny Dolla just to participate guess that this sidetopics to the bitcointalk accounts thread

[Matthew N. Wright]

I will sell this account to the highest bidder.

Name:   Al the Alpaca
Posts:   128
Activity:   128
Position:   Full Member
Date Registered:   July 09, 2012, 01:25:01 AM

I have 6x the posts, but because he has an older account which he has actually been very inactive on... = higher activity. The senses, they burn.

Maybe the entire point for the algorithm is to be random and illogical to waste people's time trying to game it.

[worldinacoin]

I feel that in the long term it will be a gain for all of us as the accounts get harder to gain seniority and in this way it helps the accounts gain more money

[Dabs]

Name:    Dabs
Posts:    1012
Activity:    322
Position:    Sr. Member
Date Registered:    2012-03-29, 05:07:20

What do I need to do to go to the next level? Just wait?

[Welsh]

Already seen posts saying "What would you know you're only a jr" (In fact case anyway). Seems everyone thinks it's the post count.

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

Name:    Dabs
Posts:    1012
Activity:    322
Position:    Sr. Member
Date Registered:    2012-03-29, 05:07:20

What do I need to do to go to the next level? Just wait?

Since your posts > activity by more than 14, every new two week period where you make a post, your activity will increase by 14.

[dogie]

I feel that in the long term it will be a gain for all of us as the accounts get harder to gain seniority and in this way it helps the accounts gain more money

Why do people keep repeating this! It is EASIER than before because all you do is create an account, do 7 posts a week and you gain hero status by WAITING. Not by doing anything, not by being credible, but by WAITING.

And by that virtue, EVERYONE will get promoted to hero.

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

That's the same thing with post counts - everyone will eventually become a hero member if they keep posting

[Akka]

Since your posts > activity by more than 14, every new two week period where you make a post, your activity will increase by 14.

Does it work like this?

I assumed you get 1 activity point per post, up to a maximum of 14 points per 2 weeks.

Post are not "carried over" from past weeks as long as you make at least 1 Post, are they?

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

Since your posts > activity by more than 14, every new two week period where you make a post, your activity will increase by 14.

Does it work like this?

I assumed you get 1 activity point per post, up to a maximum of 14 points per 2 weeks.

Post are not "carried over" from past weeks as long as you make at least 1 Post, are they?

Posts are.