[TOP-200] Members who support newbies - Thanks!

[Coin-1]

These are the monthly statistics for May 2024 below.

Members who support newbies (May 2024)

	User name	Current rank [1]	Quantity of newbies who received merit
1)	ABCbits	Legendary	24 newbies
2)	hugeblack	Legendary	10 newbies
3)	klarki	Legendary	9 newbies
4)	LoyceV	Legendary	7 newbies
5)	Turbartuluk	Legendary	6 newbies
6)	JayJuanGee	Legendary	5 newbies
7)	fillippone	Legendary	4 newbies
8)	bitmover	Legendary	4 newbies
9)	Xal0lex	Legendary	4 newbies
10)	Buchi-88	Legendary	4 newbies
11)	CryptopreneurBrainboss	Legendary	3 newbies
12)	mole0815	Legendary	3 newbies
13)	LFC_Bitcoin	Legendary	3 newbies
14)	NotATether	Legendary	2 newbies
15)	punk.zink	Sr. Member	2 newbies
16)	dkbit98	Legendary	2 newbies
17)	willi9974	Legendary	2 newbies
18)	nutildah	Legendary	2 newbies
19)	d5000	Legendary	2 newbies
20)	nc50lc	Legendary	2 newbies
21)	Timelord2067	Legendary	2 newbies
22)	SFR10	Legendary	2 newbies
23)	mocacinno	Legendary	2 newbies
24)	xandry	Legendary	2 newbies
25)	vapourminer	Legendary	2 newbies
26)	Cubewaldo	Jr. Member	1 newbie
27)	MeGold666	Member	1 newbie
28)	CryptoWideShut	Member	1 newbie
29)	N.O	Full Member	1 newbie
30)	Junoto	Jr. Member	1 newbie
31)	Lidger	Full Member	1 newbie
32)	Nexus9090	Member	1 newbie
33)	TOXIC-ZY	Member	1 newbie
34)	Learn Bitcoin	Hero Member	1 newbie
35)	PowerGlove	Legendary	1 newbie
36)	sandbird	Member	1 newbie
37)	Cricktor	Legendary	1 newbie
38)	Garmo	Member	1 newbie
39)	RickDeckard	Legendary	1 newbie
40)	Igebotz	Legendary	1 newbie
41)	vjudeu	Legendary	1 newbie
42)	Dave1	Hero Member	1 newbie
43)	GeorgeJohn	Hero Member	1 newbie
44)	Cryptoababe	Member	1 newbie
45)	BlackHatCoiner	Legendary	1 newbie
46)	FatFork	Legendary	1 newbie
47)	worldofcoins	Sr. Member	1 newbie
48)	logfiles	Legendary	1 newbie
49)	Kavelj22	Legendary	1 newbie
50)	lovesmayfamilis	Legendary	1 newbie
51)	1miau	Legendary	1 newbie
52)	BitcoinGirl.Club	Legendary	1 newbie
53)	jeremypwr	Legendary	1 newbie
54)	patrickus	Hero Member	1 newbie
55)	Husna QA	Legendary	1 newbie
56)	suzanne5223	Hero Member	1 newbie
57)	jrrsparkles	Sr. Member	1 newbie
58)	tsaroz	Legendary	1 newbie
59)	PX-Z	Hero Member	1 newbie
60)	delfastTions	Legendary	1 newbie
61)	Porfirii	Legendary	1 newbie
62)	BayAreaCoins	Legendary	1 newbie
63)	paramind22	Hero Member	1 newbie
64)	Lucius	Legendary	1 newbie
65)	pawel7777	Legendary	1 newbie
66)	babo	Legendary	1 newbie
67)	Hueristic	Legendary	1 newbie
68)	OgNasty	Legendary	1 newbie
69)	The Sceptical Chymist	Legendary	1 newbie
70)	alani123	Legendary	1 newbie
71)	adaseb	Legendary	1 newbie
72)	Vod	Legendary	1 newbie

Total supported in May 2024: 157 newbies (by 72 members)

[Coin-1]

Recurrent update.

Since September 17, 2018, when new enhanced restrictions and requirements for newbies were introduced on the forum, 5321 members supported 24,134 users who had no merit.

In addition, I have published monthly statistics. ABCbits is the leader of this TOP-200 in February, April and May. JayJuanGee took first place in March. Very nice!

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I just have to say that it's kind of sad when I made 69th on the list simply by giving merits to a single newbie.  I'd have to go look through all the data in this thread to confirm my suspicion, but I think there used to be a lot more members giving merits to newbies in months/years past. 

Assuming that's true, I wonder if newbies are just getting their posts ignored from potential merit-givers or if the overall flow of merits has slowed down.  Once again I really wish Theymos would drop some data and give us his thoughts on the merit system.  I'm very curious to know if he thinks it's still functioning like he thought it would when he created it.

Anyway, thanks again for the data, OP.

[Igebotz]

I just have to say that it's kind of sad when I made 69th on the list simply by giving merits to a single newbie.  I'd have to go look through all the data in this thread to confirm my suspicion, but I think there used to be a lot more members giving merits to newbies in months/years past.  

Assuming that's true, I wonder if newbies are just getting their posts ignored from potential merit-givers or if the overall flow of merits has slowed down.  Once again I really wish Theymos would drop some data and give us his thoughts on the merit system.  I'm very curious to know if he thinks it's still functioning like he thought it would when he created it.

Anyway, thanks again for the data, OP.

That's fewer than 200 merits given to 157 newbies over 30 days, that's around 0.0001% of the monthly generated source. To be honest, today's newbies put little effort into their posts.

On a serious note, I've noticed a drop in merit cycling; this might be because most merit sources aren't distributing as they should, or the forum is extremely boring to read.

Check your signature 

[Findingnemo]

I'd have to go look through all the data in this thread to confirm my suspicion, but I think there used to be a lot more members giving merits to newbies in months/years past.  

That's fewer than 200 merits given to 157 newbies over 30 days, that's around 0.0001% of the monthly generated source. To be honest, today's newbies put little effort into their posts.

On a serious note, I've noticed a drop in merit cycling; this might be because most merit sources aren't distributing as they should, or the forum is extremely boring to read.

These stats show that newbies are not given importance when it comes to merit column unless people registering on Bitcoin reduced.

Also, I want to highlight the advice from theymos for merit sources.

If you have 150 source merit and you only see 3 merit-worthy posts in a month, then I'd rather you over-give each of them 50 merit than let the merit expire. That way there are more people capable of sending merit, and the "merit economy" is less top-down.

Potential merit givers are merit sources who most often put the discussion boards like bitcoin discussion, economics, speculation, and trading discussion boards on ignore due to the amount of spam but instead of just ignoring them completely how it would be if they decided to reward the actual merit worthy posts in high numbers than usual which could make a drastic change in my opinion.

Definitely, the circulation of merit reduced a lot in recent past months compared to previous years.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

To be honest, today's newbies put little effort into their posts.

That's nothing new, though I have to wonder if it's gotten worse in the past 3 years or so.  Any time I see a member at Newbie or even Jr. Member rank who's making high-quality posts, I get very suspicious.

On a serious note, I've noticed a drop in merit cycling

I've admitted multiple times that I've been slacking, but I intend to change that as best I can.  Even if newbies are generally undeserving of merits, there are still plenty of members under Legendary rank who need merits.  I just have to read through enough threads to find them.

Which brings me this part of your comment that I quoted:

or the forum is extremely boring to read.

That might well be the case these days, especially since some of the more colorful members have left bitcointalk.  Forum drama might be silly or unnecessary sometimes, but if I'm being honest it does tend to liven things up.  Lauda, TECSHARE, TMAN, Vod, Lutpin, Gleb Gamow, cryptodevil, aTriz, xtraelv and others used to write posts with bite and some honesty, and they certainly weren't the generic nonsense posts that infest most threads, and nearly always cranked out by people with no presence, no personality, and with some kind of advertising in their signature space.

Check your signature 

Heh heh.  Thankfully a kind member PMed me about my fuck-up and I fixed it.  And I do thank you for pointing it out here.