Trivia: 100000th merited post

The contest has ended: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5211037.msg53391027#msg53391027

Thanks everyone!

Tiny print rules: LoyceV, DdmrDdmr, Vod, and anyone else with access to secret merit data is not allowed to participate.

We have merited ~180 thousand posts so far. Can you guess whose post was the 100000th to get merited, what it was about, and who merited it?

Some hints:

Author of the post is a well-known forum member, particularly in the altcoin boards.
The post itself was in one of the most popular boards but not in the altcoin section. There are a few keywords, any of which I would consider as a correct answer to "what it was about".
The sender of the merit is an occasional WO participant, not active recently.

First to guess one of the three gets a merit, first to guess all three gets 7, first to provide the link to the post... LoyceV, get back to your couch, you'll get your chance when I announce the result and you need to prove me wrong.

If this turns out to be too hard I'll drop more hints. One guess per person please, don't try to post a list of 2 million usernames. If I provide additional hints you can make another guess but please make a new post so that I can track who was first. Edited posts will be disqualified.

The way I determined the 100000th post might be subject to some debate but since this is pretty much a lucky guess anyway - I don't think that matters.

Hey, I am on my couch!

Accroding to the first hint, I guess it's tk808 since I have seen him to be active in altcoin section quite a few times; although I don't visit that section much due to less interest & more spam there.
I have no idea about other hints. It would be better if you give some more lights/hints. I will edit the post on the other hints you have given once I get.

Quote from: suchmoon on December 19, 2019, 05:11:06 PM

<…> I determined the 100000th post might be subject to some debate but since this is pretty much a lucky guess anyway - I don't think that matters.

I get that part … luckily I can’t participate, otherwise I’d have to come up with a few solutions depending on the possible selected criteria to deal with can’t tell, can I.

Quote from: RapTarX on December 19, 2019, 05:21:18 PM

The first hint is a bit of a trick. I didn't say the author of the post is an active poster in the altcoin boards. You probably know this user well even if you don't visit altcoin boards.

The second one is a dead giveaway already I'm afraid. No additional hints for the time being.

The third one... as of now the sender of the merit has been inactive for more than a month.

Don't edit your post, just make a new one if you want to replace your answer, otherwise I won't know who was first. I've adjusted the rules in the OP a little bit.

Quote from: suchmoon on December 19, 2019, 05:35:41 PM

Don't edit your post, just make a new one if you want to replace your answer, otherwise I won't know who was first.

I'm still scraping posts, even though loyce.club is currently offline. They'll be uploaded once it's back online.

Let me guess: @Welsh >> [Guide] Reporting effectively >> @mdayonliner

As you are asking about 100000th merited post not 100000th merit and the sender of the merit, so that post has received merit only from one user.
Am I right?

Quote from: hugeblack on December 19, 2019, 05:45:56 PM

Let me guess: @Welsh >> [Guide] Reporting effectively >> @mdayonliner

No, but you're on to something here. Can't divulge more as it would make too easy for others so let's see where this gets us. Feel free to post a new guess since I did give a teeny tiny new hint.

Quote from: hosseinimr93 on December 19, 2019, 05:47:27 PM

As you are asking about 100000th merited post not 100000th merit and the sender of the merit, so that post has received merit only from one user.
Am I right?

Yes, 100000th post of ~180k merited posts.

Good deduction on your part and there is one more piece of information you can extract from that.

Quote from: suchmoon on December 19, 2019, 05:11:06 PM

The sender of the merit is an occasional WO participant, not active recently.

bones261?

10/18=0.555 so a little less than half way back in the history of merits..

And judging by the slight declining trend of merits..

Quote from: tranthidung on September 22, 2019, 12:07:15 PM

The time series plot (of full dataset) shows a spike on 16/9/2018.

I'd have to take a WAG that the 100,000th post merited happened around a year ago, or at the very least longer than the merit summaries pages keep track of them, therefore I have about zero chance of finding it..

I'll guess the 100kth merited post was made by actmyname, merited by bones261, and ironically in the meta board something to do with the topic of merits..

Well done, only one piece missing and it should be an extremely easy one for anyone paying attention.

This shouldn’t be difficult for anyone with access to all the merit sent and knows what they are doing.

Without looking at any data, I would say the merit was given a year+ ago if there have been 180k posts merited to date. I don’t see anyone reasonably guessing without access to the all time merit data.

Edit:

Quote from: eddie13 on December 19, 2019, 06:46:31 PM

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I'll guess the 100kth merited post was made by actmyname, merited by bones261, and ironically in the meta board something to do with the topic of merits..

It sounds like you are playing the numbers game.

I guess none of actmyname & hosseinimir93 guess is correct since in the second post of this topic suchmoon has hinted out the post was a giveaway thread/post where bones261 handed out the merit. None of the post you 2 linked is about giveaway.

My guess:
Person: suchmoon
Sender: bones261
Post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4661300.msg48832540#msg48832540

Quote from: RapTarX on December 19, 2019, 07:07:57 PM

They didn't guess correctly but not for the reason you stated. "dead giveaway" is an expression: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead_giveaway

Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on December 19, 2019, 06:56:20 PM

It sounds like you are playing the numbers game.

Yeah basically..

Quote from: suchmoon on December 19, 2019, 07:17:40 PM

They didn't guess correctly but not for the reason you stated. "dead giveaway" is an expression: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead_giveaway

Looks like I hit 2/3 somehow miraculously, bones is correct getting morvillz7z a merit (beat me by less than 1 minute), and the guess wasn't correct but not for the reason of board and topic? actmyname being the last incorrect part?

Does that statement count as a "clue" allowing another guess?