Merit stat & all transactions more than 40 Merits

[tranthidung]

Update: new transactions more than 40 Merits.

Date	Time	Merit	From	Post	To
2018/05/16	19:55:51	49	Southpaw0	->	zazarb
2018/05/15	06:11:36	47	valtin	->	winterrose
2018/05/14	20:54:37	40	identifyuser	->	alexberezov
2018/05/11	23:13:02	40	djnocide	->	Ben K.

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.

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[TryNinja]

Update: new transactions more than 40 Merits.

Date	Time	Merit	From	Post	To
2018/05/16	19:55:51	49	Southpaw0	->	zazarb
2018/05/15	06:11:36	47	valtin	->	winterrose
2018/05/14	20:54:37	40	identifyuser	->	alexberezov
2018/05/11	23:13:02	40	djnocide	->	Ben K.

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.

40 or more. Check the list again...

Also, you can't send 100 merits to something at once. Only 50 per user/per month.

[sncc]

Been doing a little digging with this list, and it seems the 50 merits list is a great way to find alt accounts who are abusing both merits and bounties.

Here is an example of one such account that has escaped red paint: Chacoin17

The said account was given a total of 150 merits ALL on February 9 for spam posts that aren't even in completely proper english. All the 150 merits came from known alt abuser accounts which have already been red painted by ThePharmacist:

marcuslong
theend1949
chickennado

I've found more of such accounts and i can probably post a separate thread for them but for now I'll let you guys decide if this should be red painted. Going back to the topic, this just further shows how useful merit analysis actually is. Kudos to the original poster.

There was some discussion about this chain, see this thread:

Large amount merit transactions
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3693207.0

It would be good to see other chains you found in a separate thread.

-snip-

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.

40 or more. Check the list again...

Also, you can't send 100 merits to something at once. Only 50 per user/per month.

TryNinja is right, 50 is the largest number for single transaction.  I chose 40 to include the peak at 40 Merits in the figure in the OP.  Of course 30 and 25 have larger peaks but the list would be too long.