Happy birthday, the merit system!

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Just a quick word cloud will all the 312 usernames that have managed to earn at least 150 merits as of today (value chosen arbitrarily to allow for names to be readable). Name size is proportional to the number of earned merits.

All of them are good posters and contributors to the forum. The merit system clearly reflects such decent members.

I see that many people want to change the merit system. Some of users suggest interesting ideas. I'm sure that the still young merit system will grow up and be improved until its second anniversary.

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nicely made, happy Bday from the HATcommunity as well   

[DdmrDdmr]

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A tiny little thing: It looks like you’ve duplicated row entry number 45 on the first list (sameji919) over to row number 46, and therefore there is one more user on the list than exists really. I should be updating the Dashboard today, so today’s data will reflect the information as of this morning, making it the real 1 year data set.

Anyhow, nice to see that local boards trace the merit activity. Numbers are pretty low on your local board, but it really requires some inner knowledge of your local board to tell whether it is aligned with the quality and quantity of posts being made there.

An interesting exercise to perform is to list all local board merited profiles, and indicate what percentage of each profile comes from the local board. I did that some while ago for my local board.
My personal local board merit ratio as of last week was of 10,87% (we can see it on the Merit Dashboard using the Merit User Summary Tab – Item Received Subsections, but it’s a one by one task; much quicker straight from the database). On my local board, there is only one 100% local board created Full Member (many are cross-boarders). That is extremely difficult to achieve.

[stompix]

Just a quick word cloud will all the 312 usernames that have managed to earn at least 150 merits as of today (value chosen arbitrarily to allow for names to be readable). Name size is proportional to the number of earned merits.

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Do you have any idea how much you affected productivity worldwide? 
With thousands of people having their eyes glued to the screen to see if/where their names are?

I spent (based on browser history) 6 minutes to find my name, and I even double check to see if I am even supposed to be there.
Damn, I need glasses!!!!!

[DdmrDdmr]

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It took me two minutes roughly to find yours, but my eyesight has got way worse this year, and is now on the verge of needing some aid. I really do hope that all 312 names are on the list, and that the chart didn’t chop-off some names to make them fit (I counted names on an area and extrapolated, and it seemed to have them all accounted for). My initial idea was to include all merited usernames, but obviously the word cloud comes out pretty crap with over 26K users …

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@DdmrDdmr, I meant it as a joke as probably whenever I come close to it I saw a name..hey that's x..went the other direction..oh hey here is a pack of CM campaign, let's see how many are side by side...
Even after I found my name I spent some more time just checking who is where.

As for the eyesight I try to take breaks as the doctor said because I was experiencing blurring vision, after 30 mins of watching the screen I go on the balcony (if it's not a damn winter like now) or at least the window and try to relax my eyes for around 5 mins watching what's happening in real life.

My initial idea was to include all merited usernames, but obviously the word cloud comes out pretty crap with over 26K users …

Don't!!!! I'll have to take a day off 

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Took me about 0.5 seconds to find mine, haha. It's your own fault for signing up with a normal username containing only letters. You should have picked something ugly, with symbols, and a nightmare to type out like mine, then you stand out a mile away.

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Took me about 0.5 seconds to find mine, haha. It's your own fault for signing up with a normal username containing only letters. You should have picked something ugly, with symbols, and a nightmare to type out like mine, then you stand out a mile away.

Yeah, right!  
It's because of the username not because you have earned 6 or 7 times more merit than me  
How nice of you to put it that way !!!

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A tiny little thing: It looks like you’ve duplicated row entry number 45 on the first list

 Numbers are pretty low on your local board, but it really requires some inner knowledge of your local board to tell whether it is aligned with the quality and quantity of posts being made there.

Thank you for pointing out my mistakes and updating the dashboard!
On my mistake, lines 45 and 46 were duplicated. Users who received Merit on Japanese local board was correctly 64 people. I fixed the post.

Yes, it is said that there are three Merit sources, but Merit distribution on our local board is very small, only 0.6% of the number circulating throughout the local board. (562/93, 073)
It may be because our local board has few posts and is not very active. I hope that this year will be more active and that good postings will increase

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Just a quick word cloud will all the 312 usernames that have managed to earn at least 150 merits as of today (value chosen arbitrarily to allow for names to be readable). Name size is proportional to the number of earned merits.

Nice figure, DdmrDdmr.  I found most usernames are familiar to me.  The merit system does work, makes it easier to recognize high quality posters and enhances the number of such posters.