Merit source observations

[tranthidung]

Any hint on who the new merit sources are?
I saw one of them confessing on another thread. So at least 13 missings (assuming Theymos didn't demote anyone).

I don't know and I guess we only know who are new merit sources in after 1 (at least) to 2 months.

• [TOP-200] The most generous users giving merits. You can detect them by that algorithm as well as suddenly increase of sent merits since early of July.
• [LIST]Open Merit Source Applications,waiting list. You can guess about some new merit sources from there. That list was last updated in November 2020.

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[tranthidung]

1 year and I come back.

• Honestly, I did not check merit sources page in many months
• So I don't know when the latest change was made
• But the update is, currently "there are 110 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 33989 sMerit per 30 days"
• It is minor change compares to 1 year ago, in July 2021. I guess 1 merit source was removed.

[fillippone]

1 year and I come back.

• Honestly, I did not check merit sources page in many months
• So I don't know when the latest change was made
• But the update is, currently "there are 110 merit sources with a total merit generation of up to 33989 sMerit per 30 days"
• It is minor change compares to 1 year ago, in July 2021. I guess 1 merit source was removed.

Nice find!
It has been almost one year since last merit source shuffle.
Wondering if we will have another adjustment on July 17th, the date of the first anniversary.

[Rikafip]

It has been almost one year since last merit source shuffle.
Wondering if we will have another adjustment on July 17th, the date of the first anniversary.

Looking at the sent merit per month, I don't think that theymos  will do the same thing he did year ago. I think that situation merit wise is pretty good and much better compared to year ago when theymos introduced new merit sources and removed the inactive ones. For example, last month 26,486 merits were shared which is a ~100% increase compared to year ago (June 2021) during which only 13,286 merits were shared.

[tranthidung]

It has been almost one year since last merit source shuffle.

The silence of merit shuffle is one of reasons I did not regularly visit merit source page as I often did before the latest reshuffle wave.

Wondering if we will have another adjustment on July 17th, the date of the first anniversary.

I guess not. If something happens, it would be very minor or small changes in current merit sources and / or adding very little new merit sources. As I recall, there are very little merit source applications recent months.

I think that situation merit wise is pretty good and much better compared to year ago when theymos introduced new merit sources and removed the inactive ones. For example, last month 26,486 merits were shared which is a ~100% increase compared to year ago (June 2021) during which only 13,286 merits were shared.

theymos has many criteria and total distributed merit per month by all merit sources to consider and make any changes for merit sources and monthly smerit allocations for them. Such as

• Distribution changes in local boards or local threads.
• Ratio of total merited posts/ total posts monthly
• Rate of merit per merited posts in general and over boards
• And more

After 5 years here, should I apply to be a merit source and join the gang 

[Halab]

• It is minor change compares to 1 year ago, in July 2021. I guess 1 merit source was removed.

You are right there is one less Merit Source. And in my opinion, from what I've seen in the last few weeks, it is the MS that had to ask not to be a MS anymore.

[fillippone]

• It is minor change compares to 1 year ago, in July 2021. I guess 1 merit source was removed.

You are right there is one less Merit Source. And in my opinion, from what I've seen in the last few weeks, it is the MS that had to ask not to be a MS anymore.

You obviously know something, but you cannot tell us much.
I have seen only a single merit source that has completely stopped sending merits since a couple of months.
I don’t know if we are talking about the same person.

[Halab]

You obviously know something, but you cannot tell us much.

Mods can see the MS list, so it was easy to make the deduction. But I don't really know the details, if the ex-MS wants to talk about it, he/she will.

I have seen only a single merit source that has completely stopped sending merits since a couple of months.
I don’t know if we are talking about the same person.

Completely ? Ha yes, now that you mention that, a big MS seems to be inactive for a few months.

[fillippone]

Completely ? Ha yes, now that you mention that, a big MS seems to be inactive for a few months.

Inactive is just part of the story: he has been writing quite regularly and got merits. He just stopped sending merits, both as MS and as regular user.
I think he might have good reasons for this.

[JayJuanGee]

Completely ? Ha yes, now that you mention that, a big MS seems to be inactive for a few months.

Inactive is just part of the story: he has been writing quite regularly and got merits. He just stopped sending merits, both as MS and as regular user.
I think he might have good reasons for this.

On Strike.

Against dee cornz.

don't like king daddy no more.


bumped his head and forgot the meaning of "my lil precious."


Got bitten by a skunk and mistakenly presumed that it was a honey badger.

Was earning 20% "yield" through various imitation bitcoin entities, and found out that NGU technologies no doesn't work on dee fake cornz.. and instead of losing 100% on the best asymmetric bet that man has seen to be designed to pump forever.. lost 10x more cornz than he had.. so bumbed out about not having no cornz.. and ONLY having negative cornz.. .... ..

Pro tip:  don't be gambling with dee cornz... it's already designed to pump forever.. why get greeeeeeeeeeeddy?

[fillippone]

Completely ? Ha yes, now that you mention that, a big MS seems to be inactive for a few months.

Inactive is just part of the story: he has been writing quite regularly and got merits. He just stopped sending merits, both as MS and as regular user.
I think he might have good reasons for this.

@Ratimov just confirmed not being a merit source anymore.
It is now up to him if he wants to disclose a little bit about the reasons that led him to this decision.

[Halab]

@Ratimov just confirmed not being a merit source anymore.
It is now up to him if he wants to disclose a little bit about the reasons that led him to this decision.

Weird. Because technically he is still merit source, I still see him in the MS list with a big merit allocation. But indeed, he doesn't give merits anymore.
He does what he wants after all.

[tranthidung]

@Ratimov just confirmed not being a merit source anymore.
It is now up to him if he wants to disclose a little bit about the reasons that led him to this decision.

First, congratulations for your big achievement, with 5 digits! Very impressive fil. I know you long enough and have some personal discussion with you but what you achieved, just insane!

Second, I knew of some drama with merit sources, and some of them revoked to be a source but it happened in 2018 or 2019. What happened with Ratimov? I actually did not know about it.

Maybe I barely visit Reputation board so I missed something there. Anyway, honestly and neutrally said, Ratimov is another great asset of the forum just like you.

[_BlackStar]

Second, I knew of some drama with merit sources, and some of them revoked to be a source but it happened in 2018 or 2019. What happened with Ratimov? I actually did not know about it.

Not much is known about what happened to him ^{[only he knows better about this than we do].} I just know that he hasn't spent much of his sMerit in the last few months but today 1 big transaction was issued along with the confirmed that he is no longer the merit source on the link referred by @filippone. Really, I also think that he is an asset on this forum whether one likes him or not, and to be honest there are probably a lot of users who really miss his contributions right now.

To our merit source @filippone, congratulations on reaching your new milestone today. That 10K merit is something special to have.

[Daniel91]

Completely ? Ha yes, now that you mention that, a big MS seems to be inactive for a few months.

Inactive is just part of the story: he has been writing quite regularly and got merits. He just stopped sending merits, both as MS and as regular user.
I think he might have good reasons for this.

@Ratimov just confirmed not being a merit source anymore.
It is now up to him if he wants to disclose a little bit about the reasons that led him to this decision.

I'm sorry about that, Ratimov is really a very prominent member of this forum and has helped many members in the past.
I guess it has become a burden for him to receive many requests for help with merits, which is understandable.
I used to get spam messages in my inbox from unknown new members begging me for merits and sometimes it really becomes a burden.
Ratimov is indeed a deserving member of this forum and should be thanked for everything he has done.
Filippone, 10 k merits, congratulation, a great achievement 

[fillippone]

I used to get spam messages in my inbox from unknown new members begging me for merits and sometimes it really becomes a burden.

Well, this is weird.
I rarely get this kind of messages.
Either or I am not particularly supportive of newbie, so they don’t even bother trying to message me, or on the contrary i always help voluntarily, so they don’t even bother to message me.
Who knows!!

[Little Mouse]

• It is minor change compares to 1 year ago, in July 2021. I guess 1 merit source was removed.

You are right there is one less Merit Source. And in my opinion, from what I've seen in the last few weeks, it is the MS that had to ask not to be a MS anymore.

There's one more MS at least I know who has been removed from MS list as per the request of the MS. MS requested theymos to remove him and theymos did. I was talking with him few weeks back, and incidentally, he shared that with me.

[fillippone]

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Very sad to know.
I did noticed, doing my usual [META] analysis for the Italian board, that the Russian board had a few problems in terms of post and merits in the last months.
I guessed it has to do with the ongoing situation, and also thought the interaction between Russian speaking users, if I may, could become more difficult.

Sorry to hear the tone in the community caused you to leave.
I think it is a net loss for the forum.

[tranthidung]

Therefore, some Merit Sources do not always give away their 30-day quota in full for a simple reason: there is simply nowhere to distribute them, unless you increase the average value of the given merit per post.

Please don't increase merit per post according to their same quality.

It is not fair for people years ago have to struggle to rank up and nowadays simply posting some merit-fishing initiatives and receive a lot of merit. I don't call them as shit posters, their post quality is good enough but let's keep their rank-up as natural as it should be. Don't distort your rules of meriting only because you feel you must keep your source-merit bag as emptiest as possible.

[Rikafip]

It is not fair for people years ago have to struggle to rank up and nowadays simply posting some merit-fishing initiatives and receive a lot of merit. I don't call them as shit posters, their post quality is good enough but let's keep their rank-up as natural as it should be. Don't distort your rules of meriting only because you feel you must keep your source-merit bag as emptiest as possible.

Isn't it better that people nowadays can rank up easier than years ago? From my understanding, point of merit system is to prevent shitposters and spammer from ranking up and not to make it a struggle for decent members to rank up like it was at the beginning (at least that's what you said).