Another view on merit data, the timing

[Slava79]

Hello everybody

I recently found that there is some data available in raw format for Bitcoin forum.

Especially interesting is https://bitcointalk.org/merit.txt.xz, a timeseries of merit-giving, so to speak, events.

I ran some simple aggregations on it, but not with goal of finding merit abusers, but rather useful (I hope so) for newcomers asking questions how to get merit. You have to create good quality posts, for sure, but there is another side, the timing, when is it better to do.

So here is some data (all the time related data is in UTC):

1. Most "meritable" hours in day .

hour 0-23	merits
23	5181
22	5894
21	5884
20	6953
19	6650
18	6086
17	6747
16	7028
15	7301
14	7505
13	6839
12	6646
11	6231
10	6147
9	6399
8	5666
7	4964
6	4863
5	3593
4	3186
3	3758
2	3887
1	4289
0	4126

2. The most popular days of week in the sense of merits flow

day	merit
MONDAY	16522
TUESDAY	16802
WEDNESDAY	18413
THURSDAY	29677
FRIDAY	21154
SATURDAY	17183
SUNDAY	16072

3. And the most interesting (imho), the most "meritable" hours in days of week.

day of week	hour	merit
THURSDAY	14	2020
THURSDAY	12	1642
THURSDAY	8	1612
THURSDAY	20	1524
THURSDAY	15	1495
THURSDAY	16	1408
THURSDAY	13	1406
THURSDAY	10	1357
THURSDAY	21	1351
THURSDAY	9	1351
THURSDAY	18	1344
THURSDAY	19	1340
THURSDAY	22	1306
FRIDAY	16	1297
THURSDAY	17	1289
THURSDAY	11	1246
FRIDAY	15	1207
FRIDAY	12	1203
FRIDAY	11	1186
WEDNESDAY	22	1148
WEDNESDAY	16	1144
WEDNESDAY	14	1134
WEDNESDAY	23	1102
FRIDAY	10	1093
SATURDAY	17	1063
FRIDAY	13	1063
MONDAY	19	1020
TUESDAY	20	1017
WEDNESDAY	9	1014
SUNDAY	17	1009
FRIDAY	14	1006
TUESDAY	19	1003
TUESDAY	11	1003
THURSDAY	6	999
SATURDAY	16	998
TUESDAY	17	988
FRIDAY	8	988
FRIDAY	19	985
THURSDAY	0	983
MONDAY	15	981
WEDNESDAY	15	978
WEDNESDAY	13	973
THURSDAY	1	957
SUNDAY	9	954
FRIDAY	20	954
SATURDAY	15	952
MONDAY	14	947
FRIDAY	17	945
MONDAY	13	941
SATURDAY	12	923
SUNDAY	18	920
FRIDAY	7	914
THURSDAY	2	911
WEDNESDAY	20	897
THURSDAY	7	895
TUESDAY	15	893
THURSDAY	23	892
SUNDAY	20	890
SUNDAY	14	880
WEDNESDAY	17	875
TUESDAY	10	864
THURSDAY	5	855
FRIDAY	21	854
TUESDAY	21	851
FRIDAY	18	844
TUESDAY	16	842
FRIDAY	9	841
MONDAY	20	839
SATURDAY	20	832
TUESDAY	13	829
FRIDAY	23	826
SUNDAY	13	817
TUESDAY	9	812
WEDNESDAY	18	811
SATURDAY	13	810
SATURDAY	19	809
THURSDAY	3	808
SATURDAY	6	798
SUNDAY	15	795
MONDAY	10	787
MONDAY	22	778
SUNDAY	19	772
WEDNESDAY	12	768
SUNDAY	11	765
TUESDAY	14	760
FRIDAY	6	760
TUESDAY	22	759
SATURDAY	14	758
WEDNESDAY	11	752
TUESDAY	18	752
WEDNESDAY	21	751
SATURDAY	9	746
SATURDAY	10	739
TUESDAY	12	735
SATURDAY	21	732
WEDNESDAY	19	721
MONDAY	1	715
SATURDAY	23	715
MONDAY	18	711
MONDAY	7	706
SATURDAY	18	704
SATURDAY	8	699
SUNDAY	16	697
WEDNESDAY	10	695
SUNDAY	12	693
THURSDAY	4	686
FRIDAY	3	683
MONDAY	12	682
MONDAY	9	681
FRIDAY	0	674
SUNDAY	21	674
WEDNESDAY	7	671
MONDAY	23	671
MONDAY	21	671
SATURDAY	11	670
WEDNESDAY	1	669
FRIDAY	22	664
SATURDAY	3	657
MONDAY	16	642
FRIDAY	1	640
SUNDAY	7	633
SATURDAY	22	633
WEDNESDAY	6	625
WEDNESDAY	8	624
SUNDAY	10	612
TUESDAY	0	609
MONDAY	11	609
SATURDAY	7	607
SUNDAY	22	606
MONDAY	8	587
TUESDAY	8	581
TUESDAY	6	580
MONDAY	17	578
SUNDAY	8	575
SUNDAY	6	574
SATURDAY	2	566
FRIDAY	5	560
FRIDAY	2	550
TUESDAY	7	538
SATURDAY	0	536
MONDAY	6	527
MONDAY	2	527
SUNDAY	23	520
MONDAY	5	518
WEDNESDAY	5	505
MONDAY	4	497
TUESDAY	2	492
SUNDAY	2	487
SUNDAY	1	468
SUNDAY	0	466
SUNDAY	3	458
WEDNESDAY	4	457
TUESDAY	23	455
MONDAY	0	454
MONDAY	3	453
SUNDAY	5	449
SATURDAY	1	443
SATURDAY	4	419
FRIDAY	4	417
WEDNESDAY	0	404
TUESDAY	1	397
SATURDAY	5	374
TUESDAY	3	358
SUNDAY	4	358
WEDNESDAY	2	354
TUESDAY	4	352
WEDNESDAY	3	341
TUESDAY	5	332

I hope it is helpful

[Vod]

Interesting about the time of day, the rest not so much.  :/

[TheBeardedBaby]

Went trough your posts, I saw what I needed to see and there you are, a member now. Congrats.
Good work man.

[Slava79]

Went trough your posts, I saw what I needed to see and there you are, a member now. Congrats.
Good work man.

Thank you so much!

ps. Who will say now that it's impossible to become a member?

[khufuking]

I respect the effort you made to come up with this results I really do , But do you really think that people should time there posting in hope to get Merit ! . The data you provided is useful one way or another , But I do not think it should be used as a timeline guide for new user for posting .

[Slava79]

I respect the effort you made to come up with this results I really do , But do you really think that people should time there posting in hope to get Merit ! . The data you provided is useful one way or another , But I do not think it should be used as a timeline guide for new user for posting .

I agree with you and I stated it in my post - one should in the first place create informative topics.

But merit per se is also a measure of how much attention a post can receive, and this is not necessarily based solely on posts qualities.

Imagine you are a product/campaign/ICO manager who is planning to interact with your auditory. You have good content, not spamming or something. Does it matter to you when to post, especially if you do know that in some days, for unknown reasons, posts receive less attention from higher ranked forum members?

[digaran]

Who will say now that it's impossible to become a member?

I'd say good luck to become a full member. lol. about your work, I'd say that either people are sending and receiving more merits when theymos is not around or they are happy on *thursday more than other days of the week. second lol.

* I don't know about other countries but in mine people are happy on thursdays because they are going to have matrimonial intercourse.

Ps. you should know that mods don't like me, so if you report any of my posts, the chance of deletion is greater than other members.

[LoyceV]

3. And the most interesting (imho), the most "meritable" hours in days of week.

My assumption would be this coincides with total forum activity.

I'd say that either people are sending and receiving more merits when theymos is not around or they are happy on *thursday more than other days of the week. second lol.

Merit was introduced on a Thursday, that's why there's a "spike" on Thursday. The percentage of all Merit used on Thursday is still dropping, as this averages out.

Ps. you should know that mods don't like me, so if you report any of my posts, the chance of deletion is greater than other members.

Stay on topic, it helps

[athanz88]

This is a good work, i really appreciate it. It really helps people to get some merit because sometimes a good post in a wrong time can get you merit but a good post in a right time will get you merit which you deserve with the post. Thanks man.

O ya, one more thing, if you can, it would be good if you can deliver it in a chart or table, so people can read it easily and comfortably.

[Slava79]

This is a good work, i really appreciate it. It really helps people to get some merit because sometimes a good post in a wrong time can get you merit but a good post in a right time will get you merit which you deserve with the post. Thanks man.

O ya, one more thing, if you can, it would be good if you can deliver it in a chart or table, so people can read it easily and comfortably.

I didn't add charts in the first time, was afraid of being banned from forum for my color taste. But here you are, I played risky, added charts for the first 2 data series.  Didn't managed to get bubble chart working in numbers for the 3rd, tbc...