Percentage of Merit received on old posts, deleted posts, and average per post

[LoyceV]

Do me! And, if it's not too much to ask, the members of the Vulpine Order of Merit whom you haven't already done or are going to do (Jet Cash, achow101, gmaxwell, and o_e_l_e_o). I'm interested to know if my high expectations for the Order are justified.

User Foxpup (full history)

• Received a total of 153 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 9 Merit (5.88%) for 3024 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0029 Merit per old post).
• Received 141 Merit (92.15%) for 182 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.7747 Merit per new post).
• Received 3 Merit (1.96%) for posts that are now deleted.

User JetCash (full history)

• Received a total of 737 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 2 Merit (0.27%) for 2126 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0009 Merit per old post).
• Received 732 Merit (99.32%) for 3410 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.2146 Merit per new post).
• Received 3 Merit (0.40%) for posts that are now deleted.

User achow101 (full history)

• Received a total of 699 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 46 Merit (6.58%) for 10307 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0044 Merit per old post).
• Received 643 Merit (91.98%) for 585 posts created after the introduction of Merit (1.0991 Merit per new post).
• Received 10 Merit (1.43%) for posts that are now deleted.

User gmaxwell (full history)

• Received a total of 540 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 109 Merit (20.18%) for 4698 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0232 Merit per old post).
• Received 426 Merit (78.88%) for 60 posts created after the introduction of Merit (7.1000 Merit per new post).
• Received 5 Merit (0.92%) for posts that are now deleted.

User o_e_l_e_o (full history)

• Received a total of 537 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 0 Merit (0%) for 341 posts created before the introduction of Merit.
• Received 506 Merit (94.22%) for 1727 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.2929 Merit per new post).
• Received 31 Merit (5.77%) for posts that are now deleted.

Can you try for me LoyceV

User vphasitha01 (full history)

• Received a total of 161 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 0 Merit (0%) for 0 posts created before the introduction of Merit.
• Received 157 Merit (97.51%) for 478 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.3284 Merit per new post).
• Received 4 Merit (2.48%) for posts that are now deleted.

@LoyceV can you list the users who awarded the most number of merits for the deleted posts?

No, unfortunately I can't. That would require scraping all posts from all merited users.

Btw why you specifically chosen Alex_Sr for your list in the OP? Is he the member who has the most merits for the post that are now deleted?

I took him as an example because I remembered his name. He's one of the users who received a lot of Merit from xandry, who used to give Merit for reporting spam or plagiarism (I don't remember exactly), which was deleted after taking Mod action on the offenders. There's a thread about it somewhere, and he stopped doing this. It's not necessarily abuse, but it was debated and made a nice example of a user with many deleted posts. See xandry's full Merit history for a long list of Merit sent to posts that are now deleted.

I'm somewhat confused to understand whether this number is positive indicator or negative indicator when comparing stats

It depends on the reason the posts were deleted. In general, I don't think it's a good thing. But it also depends on the board, I can imagine some good posts disappeared when the entire thread was trashed. Or posted on a board that I can't scrape.

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[suchmoon]

Source merits are a constant flow, and not a monthly update. They are replaced 30 days after being awarded. If they aren't awarded instantly, they aren't lost, it just means a slight delay in their replacement.

True, but technically the delay means some sMerits are "lost" (not generated at the full capacity) if you don't drain your source to 0 at least once every 30 days.

[pugman]

Uh, #metoo?Can you do the same for sent merit as well? idk, I am just trying to put your mind at more work which would lead have no actual IRL use. 

[LoyceV]

Uh, #metoo?

User pugman (full history)

• Received a total of 300 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 0 Merit (0%) for 747 posts created before the introduction of Merit.
• Received 291 Merit (97.00%) for 1106 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.2631 Merit per new post).
• Received 9 Merit (3.00%) for posts that are now deleted.

Can you do the same for sent merit as well?

I can't really calculate a percentage for sent Merit, as there's no way I can know how many posts you've read.

idk, I am just trying to put your mind at more work which would lead have no actual IRL use. 

Lol

[Heisenberg_Hunter]

Merit/New Post Toppers so far :  

1. gmaxwell [7.1000 Merit per new post]
2. johank [5.5714 Merit per new post]
3. theymos [3.3760 Merit per new post]
4. satoshi [2.2671 Merit per old post]
5. achow101 [1.0991 Merit per new post]
6. nullius [1.0669 Merit per new post]
7. DdmrDdmr [0.9981 Merit per new post]
8. Foxpup [0.7747 Merit per new post]
9. hilariousetc [0.5845 Merit per new post]
10. LoyceV [0.3737 Merit per new post]
11. Piggy [0.3560 Merit per new post]

Seems like gmaxwell's in-depth replies to each of the technical questions he replies receives a lot of merits. Almost all the Core devs (except very few like gmaxwell and achow101, though achow101 doesn't have commit access to the core) stopped responding in this forum and have been inactive for more than a year or 2 leaving maxwell and Andrew the only devs to reply back to some really difficult bitcoin issues which pops up occasionally in Tech Board.


LoyceV can I have mine please?  

[vphasitha01]

Merit/New Post Toppers so far : 

1. gmaxwell [7.1000 Merit per new post]
2. theymos [3.3760 Merit per new post]
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This johank guy will beat the gmaxwell as well if he continue posting in future

Now he is currently at the position 2 in the Merit/New post toppers list, but not theymos

1. gmaxwell [7.1000 Merit per new post]
2. johank [5.6428 Merit per new post]
3. theymos [3.3760 Merit per new post]

[LoyceV]

LoyceV can I have mine please? 

User Heisenberg_Hunter (full history)

• Received a total of 127 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 3 Merit (2.36%) for 16 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.1875 Merit per old post).
• Received 122 Merit (96.06%) for 358 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.3407 Merit per new post).
• Received 2 Merit (1.57%) for posts that are now deleted.

This johank guy will beat the gmaxwell as well if he continue posting in future

User johank (full history)

• Received a total of 79 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 0 Merit (0%) for 0 posts created before the introduction of Merit.
• Received 78 Merit (98.73%) for 14 posts created after the introduction of Merit (5.5714 Merit per new post).
• Received 1 Merit (1.26%) for posts that are now deleted.

[suchmoon]

This johank guy will beat the gmaxwell as well if he continue posting in future

The average is skewed heavily by 50 merits from theymos for this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4980960.0

This might be not sustainable.

[vphasitha01]

This johank guy will beat the gmaxwell as well if he continue posting in future

The average is skewed heavily by 50 merits from theymos for this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4980960.0

This might be not sustainable.

Fair enough, but theymos has also received 5 Txn. of 50 merits, 1 Txn. of 45 merits, 1 Txn. of 42 merits and 2 Txn. of 40 merits. That means total of 417 merits in just 9 transactions.

So if we removed those 417 from 1266, his average of Merit/New post would also reduced from 3.3760 to 2.2640

[vit05]

This johank guy will beat the gmaxwell as well if he continue posting in future

The average is skewed heavily by 50 merits from theymos for this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4980960.0

This might be not sustainable.

Fair enough, but theymos has also received 5 Txn. of 50 merits, 1 Txn. of 45 merits, 1 Txn. of 42 merits and 2 Txn. of 40 merits. That means total of 417 merits in just 9 transactions.

So if we removed those 417 from 1266, his average of Merit/New post would also reduced from 3.3760 to 2.2640

It would be interesting to see a ranking of users who received no more than 2 merits from other users and no more than 10 merits for a given post. That is, users who are constantly receiving merits for common posts. Which are neither extraordinary nor outlier, but still produce content interesting enough to receive some merits.

[vphasitha01]

Source merits are a constant flow, and not a monthly update. They are replaced 30 days after being awarded. If they aren't awarded instantly, they aren't lost, it just means a slight delay in their replacement.

Looks like theymos didn't agree with your explanation, but with the @suchmoon

If they complain about amounts, tell them to complain to me. It's best if sources try to exhaust their source allocations, even if it means giving posts higher amounts than is typical. 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.

[LoyceV]

It would be interesting to see a ranking of users who received no more than 2 merits from other users and no more than 10 merits for a given post. That is, users who are constantly receiving merits for common posts. Which are neither extraordinary nor outlier, but still produce content interesting enough to receive some merits.

That would be an interesting list indeed, but I'm not going to make it. Feel free to use Full Merit history to make this list. It should be pretty straight forward to do, if needed I can add usernames to the list of userIDs.


I've slightly updated my script, it now counts how many individual posts received Merit:
User LoyceV (full history)

• Received a total of 1135 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 88 Merit (7.75%) for 9 (0.26%) of 3404 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0258 Merit per old post).
• Received 1045 Merit (92.07%) for 282 (10.45%) of 2696 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.3876 Merit per new post).
• Received 2 Merit (0.17%) for posts that are now deleted.

I've updated satoshi's en theymos' stats in the OP.

[LoyceV]

(this statistic was needed as a reference for another post of mine)

User iluvbitcoins (full history)

• Received a total of 67 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 3 Merit (4.47%) for 3 (0.08%) of 3745 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0008 Merit per old post).
• Received 62 Merit (92.53%) for 24 (2.79%) of 858 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.0722 Merit per new post).
• Received 2 Merit (2.98%) for posts that are now deleted.

[LoyceV]

User OgNasty (full history)

• Received a total of 391 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 130 Merit (33.24%) for 13 (0.20%) of 6226 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0208 Merit per old post).
• Received 254 Merit (64.96%) for 93 (8.01%) of 1161 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.2187 Merit per new post).
• Received 7 Merit (1.79%) for posts that are now deleted.

[LoyceV]

User cryptohunter (full history)

• Received a total of 27 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 1 Merit (3.70%) for 1 (0%) of 11103 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0 Merit per old post).
• Received 26 Merit (96.29%) for 16 (1.39%) of 1149 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.0226 Merit per new post).
• Received 0 Merit for posts that are now deleted.

User ibminer (full history)

• Received a total of 270 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 0 Merit for 0 of 1060 posts created before the introduction of Merit.
• Received 270 Merit (100.00%) for 52 (25.00%) of 208 posts created after the introduction of Merit (1.2980 Merit per new post).
• Received 0 Merit for posts that are now deleted.

[mole0815]

could i please also be added to the list? would very much like to see some details

[LoyceV]

could i please also be added to the list?

Here's yours:
User mole0815 (full history)

• Received a total of 431 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 2 Merit (0.46%) for 2 (2.15%) of 93 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0215 Merit per old post).
• Received 429 Merit (99.53%) for 162 (9.92%) of 1632 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.2628 Merit per new post).
• Received 0 Merit for posts that are now deleted.

[Jet Cash]

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

If you can only find 3 merit worthy posts in a month, then you shouldn't be a merit source in my opinion. I often find more than 3 in a day, but I can still end the day with a few source merits available for the next day's reading. I try to keep my personal sMerits for rewarding Fit to Talk projects that are moved into Bitcoin Talk, but this has been a bit slow recently, so I've got a total approaching 200 sMeits waiting for some good political translation posts.

Also, I think it would be a bit excessive to give a brand new member 50 points for his first post. I would rather give one or two points each to 25-50 new members to encourage them.

[mole0815]

could i please also be added to the list?

Here's yours:
User mole0815 (full history)

• Received a total of 431 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 2 Merit (0.46%) for 2 (2.15%) of 93 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0215 Merit per old post).
• Received 429 Merit (99.53%) for 162 (9.92%) of 1632 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.2628 Merit per new post).
• Received 0 Merit for posts that are now deleted.

perfect thanks a lot

[LoyceV]

Bump (and some updates):

User amicrypto (full history)

• Received a total of 15 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 0 Merit for 0 of 0 posts created before the introduction of Merit.
• Received 15 Merit (100.00%) for 5 (16.12%) of 31 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.4838 Merit per new post).
• Received 0 Merit for posts that are now deleted.

User LoyceV (full history)

• Received a total of 1304 Merit up to last Friday.
• Received 88 Merit (6.74%) for 9 (0.26%) of 3404 posts created before the introduction of Merit (0.0258 Merit per old post).
• Received 1214 Merit (93.09%) for 343 (11.20%) of 3060 posts created after the introduction of Merit (0.3967 Merit per new post).
• Received 2 Merit (0.15%) for posts that are now deleted.