[CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity

[Rikafip]

Contrary to popular belief (*looking at fillippone*  ), I am capable of releasing the local board overview in a reasonable time frame, so here it is! As always, all charts are made with the help of @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space which I suggest to check if you want more in-depth overview for each local board.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Nigerian, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards as of yet but are included anyway as way to support their effort in getting their own local board.


Post activity per local board during February 2022

During last month 17777 posts were written, which is ~9% decrease compared to January number (19538 posts), making February 2022 having one of the lowest number since I am am making this overview and is a continuation of the ongoing trend that doesn't seem to stop anytime soon.

Once again Russian board is by far the most active one, followed by the usual names: Turkish, German, Indonesian and Portuguese. Majority of these boards experienced the post decrease, including almost every other local board.

Number of posters per local board during February 2022

Even though I 've been doing these local boards overview for two years now, I never really bothered to check how many users each board has and how they compare to each other. Well, at least not until few days ago so I've decided to add another chart that shows exactly that.

Keep in mind that this is a first version and I included all members that wrote at least one post during the before mentioned period. I might in the future adjust it a bit; either set some higher threshold like 5-10 posts or maybe make a little bit different chart with the several brackets for each board (e.g below 10 posts, 11-100, over 100 posts etc) so we get better idea  how many active user each board actually has.

Merit shared per local board during February 2022

Decrease in the posting activity was followed by merit shared decrease as well; during February 2022 only 6033 merits were shared which is ~10% decrease compared to previous month and 7070 merits shared.

When it it comes to leading boards, chart  is pretty much the same as in January; Russian board far ahead, followed by Turkish and German. While majority of boards had decreased amount of merit which is not a surprise given overall 10% decrease, Arabic board managed to increase their merit shared by ~70% so kudos to them!

Unfortunately, Philippines board is still at the bottom, despite the fact that they are far more active than the boards that had similar amount of merits shared like Romanian and Bangladesh.

Merit senders and receivers per local board during February 2022

As always pretty much self-explanatory chart. To avoid any confusion why some boards with fewer merit participants are ahead of the others, I wanna add that boards are sorted by the amount of merit shared, so for example Portuguese board is "behind" Arabic and Spanish boards even though they have fewer people involved in merit sharing.

Merit/Post ratio per local board for February 2022

Since merit decrease was followed by the post decrease, there is no big change compared to January 2022. The important thing is that blue colour still dominates the chart, meaning majority of boards last month's ratio was higher than the last 12 months, with a couple of exceptions (French, Polish, Nigerian, Bangladesh and Pilipinas boards).

The most active members per local board during February 2022

Last but not the least, list of the most active members in 18 local boards (to be more precise 15 local boards + 3 communities that still dont have their own). Once again @joker_josue is the most active member, even though I remember him saying month ago that he doesn't think he will keep his title this month.

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	French	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
Ratimov [199]	|	mole0815 [138]	|	wolwoo [124]	|	fillippone [133]	|	joker_josue [283]	|	Saint-loup [63]	|
zxcvb988 [195]	|	willi9974 [125]	|	mandown [109]	|	babo [72]	|	TryNinja [110]	|	Danydee [48]	|
villain_Mr.Burns [179]	|	bct_ail [115]	|	meser# [108]	|	duesoldi [54]	|	bitmover [79]	|	patrickus [44]	|
Boba Fett_ [175]	|	Unknown01 [89]	|	Phoenix Anka [99]	|	Paolo.Demidov [37]	|	rdluffy [68]	|	perl [27]	|
The0ldl_lser [172]	|	-doubleU- [87]	|	Gencecikmen [91]	|	alexrossi [32]	|	Disruptivas [66]	|	LeGaulois [17]	|
Snork1979 [149]	|	sam00 [83]	|	Pierre 2 [88]	|	Ale88 [28]	|	alegotardo [60]	|	G.Seed [15]	|
Excimer [145]	|	cygan [76]	|	ZekiBeyy [88]	|	jack0m [28]	|	tg88 [59]	|	elma [15]	|
jokers10 [103]	|	Lakai01 [73]	|	MK-74 [81]	|	Plutosky [26]	|	Lucasgabd [58]	|	Melja [14]	|
Julien_Olynpic [96]	|	bullrun2020bro [73]	|	flipme [80]	|	HedgeFx [25]	|	gagux123 [46]	|	Elvenland [9]	|
Smartprofit [93]	|	Real-Duke [64]	|	hollandalibaykus [80]	|	asdlolciterquit [21]	|	sabotag3x [18]	|	Halab [8]	|

Spanish	|	Idonesian	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Polish	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
DdmrDdmr [157]	|	erep [68]	|	blockman [40]	|	slackovic [76]	|	Tytanowy Janusz [45]	|	khaled0111 [44]	|
famososMuertos [66]	|	Husna QA [66]	|	bisdak40 [32]	|	btcltcdigger [47]	|	PawGo [20]	|	Kavelj22 [38]	|
Hispo [39]	|	DroomieChikito [62]	|	mirakal [32]	|	Trofo [32]	|	wwzsocki [19]	|	Ulven [32]	|
Porfirii [38]	|	Davian144 [61]	|	agustina2 [27]	|	Daniel91 [30]	|	lokas0506 [18]	|	OmegaStarScream [24]	|
darxiaomi [27]	|	Anasberna [47]	|	acroman08 [25]	|	cryptofrka [25]	|	cygan [15]	|	yhiaali3 [23]	|
LUCKMCFLY [23]	|	Luzin [45]	|	Fredomago [24]	|	Stalker22 [23]	|	malevolent [6]	|	GxSTxV [20]	|
Crypto_Snack [10]	|	Republikcoin.com [45]	|	Bttzed03 [23]	|	casperBGD [23]	|	Ghrloust [3]	|	albon [12]	|
Artemis3 [9]	|	mamesso [45]	|	arwin100 [22]	|	FatFork [21]	|	crypto_bit [3]	|	loveurself420 [11]	|
Elvenland [8]	|	abhiseshakana [44]	|	danherbias07 [20]	|	CroBoy12 [15]	|	Rath_ [2]	|	bitcoinarabic [7]	|
Silberman [8]	|	masulum [38]	|	Baofeng [19]	|	badger27 [15]	|	Flangler1 [1]	|	FutiraCoin [3]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Pakistan*	|	Nigeria*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	________________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
NeuroticFish [12]	|	pakhitheboss [9]	|	chek2fire [7]	|	Sayeds56 [61]	|	Charles-Tim [28]	|	Little Mouse [9]	|
GazetaBitcoin [7]	|	JSRAW [7]	|	Nikosbtc [3]	|	NoorulHuda [60]	|	Maestro75 [25]	|	musafar37 [8]	|
Elvenland [4]	|	teosanru [7]	|	BillGeo [2]	|	FLoving [35]	|	Wiwo [22]	|	laredo7mm [7]	|
Rizzrack [3]	|	sagarbansal21 [6]	|	blog7 [2]	|	UmerIdrees [33]	|	BIT-BENDER [14]	|	BIT-MASTER [5]	|
CryptoMada [2]	|	Elvenland [5]	|	BlackHatCoiner [1]	|	techearn17 [19]	|	igehhh [14]	|	naim027 [5]	|
Minium1 [2]	|	Frengki_cisco [4]	|	CryptoGuy9 [1]	|	shahzadafzal [17]	|	CryptopreneurBrainboss [13]	|	shasan [5]	|
3dOOm [1]	|	alfanjhon [4]	|	Dask [1]	|	Mariah20 [14]	|	Pokapoka124 [8]	|	wtsimis [5]	|
Cryptonian717 [1]	|	libert19 [4]	|	Dimitris [1]	|	5thFear [7]	|	Rruchi man [8]	|	Review Master [4]	|
Tigerw [1]	|	pawanjain [4]	|	afrotsaf [1]	|	Rehan Zakir [7]	|	uchegod-21 [8]	|	Crypto Library [3]	|
Vidinsyaf [1]	|	pihumehra09 [4]	|	coinman76 [1]	|	yawars20 [6]	|	Issa56 [7]	|	Teletalk.org [3]	|

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[FatFork]

It is always a pleasure to see your monthly analysis of local boards, Rikafip. This one surprised us a little bit. 

Even though I 've been doing these local boards overview for two years now, I never really bothered to check how many users each board has and how they compare to each other. Well, at least not until few days ago so I've decided to add another chart that shows exactly that.

Keep in mind that this is a first version and I included all members that wrote at least one post during the before mentioned period. I might in the future adjust it a bit; either set some higher threshold like 5-10 posts or maybe make a little bit different chart with the several brackets for each board (e.g below 10 posts, 11-100, over 100 posts etc) so we get better idea  how many active user each board actually has.

That's a good idea. Adding to that, it might also be a good idea to include a Post/User ratio chart as well, similar to how you display the "Merit/Post ratio per local board" chart. It would provide additional insight into local board activities.

[babo]

Contrary to popular belief (*looking at fillippone*  ), I am capable of releasing the local board overview in a reasonable time frame..

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fillippone is a bad person, it is very evil not to pay attention to him, he is aiming to convert the republic into an empire and calls himself palpatine
ahahaha
I'm kidding
thanks for your monthly report, late or not is always very welcome

[naim027]

~snip~

Another month and another good output from Rikafip. I appreciate your afford. It's great that you have added another new chart. It will help us to understand how many active members we have on our local board. Yes, Of course,  you are capable enough of releasing the local board overview in a reasonable time frame.

BTW, You may want to edit this one:

[libert19]

I thought only India board was having low activity but apparently there are others having even lower.

[shahzadafzal]

Number of posters per local board during February 2022

Even though I 've been doing these local boards overview for two years now, I never really bothered to check how many users each board has and how they compare to each other. Well, at least not until few days ago so I've decided to add another chart that shows exactly that.

Keep in mind that this is a first version and I included all members that wrote at least one post during the before mentioned period. I might in the future adjust it a bit; either set some higher threshold like 5-10 posts or maybe make a little bit different chart with the several brackets for each board (e.g below 10 posts, 11-100, over 100 posts etc) so we get better idea  how many active user each board actually has.

Thank you so much Rikafip for your amazing efforts. Using your graphs and statistics I was able to compile a Yearly Summary for our Pakistan Board Thread  for the year 2021 and we were also able to distribute some prize money for our quality posters to top 3 members of our thread. That was a small efforts for our local community to encourage quality posters and we (me and irfan_pak10) collectively distributed to each member $30 (20 BNB + 10 USDT). This was all possible using your monthly statistic. One again thank you for sharing these statistics.

Meanwhile this new graph is really a great addition to your statistics it will help us to understand how many unique users we have. Also I agree to your suggestion of adding some threshold of 5-10 posts, this will be better and will automatically excluded random visitors. Actually consistent posters are the one who are actually helping local communities.

[fillippone]

Contrary to popular belief (*looking at fillippone*  ), I am capable of releasing the local board overview in a reasonable time frame, so here it is!

Indeed!
Posting on the first half of the month is an incredible feat, don’t worry!

Regarding your addition, it is great. Of course the next logical step is to provide a ratio of merited users/total users  or merits/total users.
Endless permutations, and graph to be added, are almost infinite!

I am going to add your graph to my report.

[Rikafip]

This one surprised us a little bit. 

Haha yeah, I knew it will. As a matter of fact, each month I start making the overview around the same time (beginning-middle of the month) but then I get distracted with RL stuff (and add some laziness on top of that) so in the end I publish it much later than I intended to. This timenothing got in my way so I was able to finish it sonner than everyone (including me) expected.

Adding to that, it might also be a good idea to include a Post/User ratio chart as well, similar to how you display the "Merit/Post ratio per local board" chart. It would provide additional insight into local board activities.

Good idea, gonna create that one too then. Might as well add it to this month's overview as I have very light work schedule today.

fillippone is a bad person, it is very evil not to pay attention to him, he is aiming to convert the republic into an empire and calls himself palpatine
ahahaha

You might be surprised, but I am also a fan of the dark side. I guess great minds really do think alike haha.  If you think about it a little bit better, rebels are the bad guys there so I am not surprised that he wants to bring some order into the chaos.

BTW, You may want to edit this one:

Thanks buddy, it has been sorted!

Thank you so much Rikafip for your amazing efforts. Using your graphs and statistics I was able to compile a Yearly Summary for our Pakistan Board Thread  for the year 2021 and we were also able to distribute some prize money for our quality posters to top 3 members of our thread. That was a small efforts for our local community to encourage quality posters and we (me and irfan_pak10) collectively distributed to each member $30 (20 BNB + 10 USDT). This was all possible using your monthly statistic. One again thank you for sharing these statistics.

That's actually a great idea, that you and @irfan_pak10 organized and provided an incentive for your members ro keep wiritng quality and helpful posts. Keep up the good work so hopefully you end up getting your own local board which you and few others IMHO deserve, based on the amount of posts and active members.

[joker_josue]

Last but not the least, list of the most active members in 18 local boards (to be more precise 15 local boards + 3 communities that still dont have their own). Once again @joker_josue is the most active member, even though I remember him saying month ago that he doesn't think he will keep his title this month.

It's true, by chance I wasn't expecting to have been so active in February. This time even I was surprised.

But, almost certainly the month of March will not be first. I've been a little more absent... With the rotation of some projects, which were on pause because of Covid, there is less time to be here.

[skarais]

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Compared to January, the number of merit distributed in February at the Local Indonesian Board decreased slightly but was still above 500+. That's pretty good and I hope we can keep that number for longer.

By the way, I haven't finished the update for February and I'm late than usual but it's very likely for me to get it done in the coming days. Rikafip, as always this is a great job from you. 

[famososMuertos]

@Rikafip
Crypto_Snack and Elvenland although ninjastic,space/ mentions them with 10 and 8 posts respectively, it was like that, but the first is Nuke status and the second nick has 26 deleted posts, of which 5 belonged to LE, this  verified via bpip.org.

For current purposes, Elvenland would only have 3 posts. It is something that happens, but at least to make it clear for statistical purposes (LE). Anyway, things that one can discover thanks to its update.

[Rikafip]

Regarding your addition, it is great. Of course the next logical step is to provide a ratio of merited users/total users  or merits/total users.
Endless permutations, and graph to be added, are almost infinite!

I will definitely think about your suggestions, but my concern is that if I make too many charts people will get bored to even ( I am sure that some are annoyed with these charts already) check it. Thats one of the reasons why I am trying to keep those texts above each chart short as I don't wanna bore people more than I am already doing. After all, it was intended to be "brief"overview and as we can see it grow bigger compared to the first few.

Compared to January, the number of merit distributed in February at the Local Indonesian Board decreased slightly but was still above 500+. That's pretty good and I hope we can keep that number for longer.

Given the fact that huge majority of other threads had noticeable decrease in the amount of merit shared, you did quite good. Keep it up!

Crypto_Snack and Elvenland although ninjastic,space/ mentions them with 10 and 8 posts respectively, it was like that, but the first is Nuke status and the second nick has 26 deleted posts, of which 5 belonged to LE, this  verified via bpip.org.

For current purposes, Elvenland would only have 3 posts. It is something that happens, but at least to make it clear for statistical purposes (LE). Anyway, things that one can discover thanks to its update.

Thanks for the heads up, and unfortunately these things will happen. Problem is that ninjastic.space counts all posts written in certain period, even deleted ones and that's the main reason I was reluctant to use that tool for making post charts and was preferring to use Merit Dashboard as I knew it will give somewhat inflated numbers.

They only way to alleviate this issue is if I checked each and every user on every board and then do the calculation manually, but of course I am not that crazy. So yeah, we will have to live with it, as no tools that I have at my disposal for counting posts is 100% correct.

[fillippone]

I will definitely think about your suggestions, but my concern is that if I make too many charts people will get bored to even ( I am sure that some are annoyed with these charts already) check it. Thats one of the reasons why I am trying to keep those texts above each chart short as I don't wanna bore people more than I am already doing. After all, it was intended to be "brief"overview and as we can see it grow bigger compared to the first few.

I know. It’s a difficult balance between quantity of information, noise/signal ratio and audience attention span.
After many months writing lengthy meta report for the italian section, I am not sure I am mastering this art.
So thank you for your input, Rikafip.

[Falconer]

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And I have to congratulate him after I managed to fulfill 3000 merit in his current profile.

So far the Russian local board are the most active local board in terms of merit gain, number of posts and also number of active users. AFAIK, Russia has long put bitcointalk on the ban list which might cause a bit of annoyance for users. But I really appreciate their efforts to keep users active in this forum with a number of posts, active users and also merit distribution even though I assume that users there should use a vpn. They are impressive in my opinion

[Rikafip]

I know. It’s a difficult balance between quantity of information, noise/signal ratio and audience attention span.

True, people are too lazy to read, I know a few people that have very decent BTC bag yet they couldn't even bother to read Bitcoin whitepaper. Says a lot about the time we are living in. Regarding extra the charts, we can look the other way: why not add moreif people are asking for it as that means that there is an interest for those. So yeah, might keep adding charts as long as they make sense and can help provide clearer picture of what's going on in local boards.

After many months writing lengthy meta report for the italian section, I am not sure I am mastering this art.

Keep it up, your reports are amazing! As a matter of fact I read them every month (via Google translate) even though I am not active in your board nor I speak Italian so that says a lot. I considered being as detailed as you are for my local board but I think that I am too lazy for something like that. 

And I have to congratulate him after I managed to fulfill 3000 merit in his current profile.

Cheers bud!

AFAIK, Russia has long put bitcointalk on the ban list which might cause a bit of annoyance for users. But I really appreciate their efforts to keep users active in this forum with a number of posts, active users and also merit distribution even though I assume that users there should use a vpn. They are impressive in my opinion

It's true, Russia banned access to bitcointalk some time ago so every user coming from there has to use VPN in order to access it. That makes their numbers even more impressive and I wonder how many people from my country (Croatia) would bother going through hassle like that just to access the forum.

[fillippone]

AFAIK, Russia has long put bitcointalk on the ban list which might cause a bit of annoyance for users. But I really appreciate their efforts to keep users active in this forum with a number of posts, active users and also merit distribution even though I assume that users there should use a vpn. They are impressive in my opinion

Wow, I didn’t know that and, yea, this makes their numbers even more impressive! I have too a bad feeling about italian board going trough a VPN!

[naim027]

It's true, Russia banned access to bitcointalk some time ago so every user coming from there has to use VPN in order to access it. That makes their numbers even more impressive and I wonder how many people from my country (Croatia) would bother going through hassle like that just to access the forum.

I guess I can say they are true lovers of the Bitcointalk community. They are still in the community even it's banned in their country. A few weeks ago I was talking with my Russian friend and said I have reached Sr. member rank On Bitcointalk. He said, "Congratulations bro! But, I cannot access Bitcointalk anymore. He doesn't bother to use VPN just to access Bitcointalk. So, I assume those peoples are true Bitcointalk Lovers and that's why they are still here.

BTW, Congratulations Rikafip for achieving 3000 Merits!
Long way to go. Good luck!

[Daniel91]

Rikafip, your monthly analysis is really interesting and informative every time, thank you for your effort and time.
I didn’t expect the drop in the number of posts to be that big.
It seems that in your analysis we can see another confirmation of the long-term trend of declining activity and the number of active members.
The only thing that never changes is the question of the champion in the number of posts on the Croatian part of the forum 

[Falconer]

It's true, Russia banned access to bitcointalk some time ago so every user coming from there has to use VPN in order to access it. That makes their numbers even more impressive and I wonder how many people from my country (Croatia) would bother going through hassle like that just to access the forum.

Of course it will affect some users who are not used to accessing forums using a VPN or TOR, but if they really like forums then they will definitely look for solutions so they can continue their activities as usual. But in my opinion, it's not only because of restriction or bans that the user base is down but I have seen quite a lot of decrease in active users during 2018 to 2020 due to thousands of failed altcoin projects.

I have too a bad feeling about italian board going trough a VPN!

How is it possible, is Italy doing the same with Russia? I'm not sure that's true, but last month there were only 60 active posters on Italian boards or about 55% of active posters on Indonesian local boards.

[fillippone]

I have too a bad feeling about italian board going trough a VPN!

How is it possible, is Italy doing the same with Russia? I'm not sure that's true, but last month there were only 60 active posters on Italian boards or about 55% of active posters on Indonesian local boards.
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What I meant is that if ever Italy were to suppress civil rights as Russia did, banning access to many legitimate websites, I can’t see italian user base increasing.

But I might be really wrong here, as is exactly when government deprives you from liberty when you start appreciating it much, and you fight back for it, with every available item, VPN’s and bitcoin included.