[CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity

[Falconer]

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.

Yes, I understand what you mean but so far I feel happy because the government of my country is very supportive of bitcoin especially if it is used as a trading and investment asset. In contrast, the government prohibits all activities and transactions of bitcoin as a means of payment. This regulation will continue to benefit users, but may still change if the government detects excessive abuse in the future such as high rates of money laundering by officials or others.

The Indonesian user base on bitcointalk is still high and will probably continue to grow regardless of its underlying purpose. But first, I hope you will fix your quote. 

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[Stalker22]

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.

Yes. Forbidden fruit is always the sweetest! At least that's what they say ... 


I had no idea that Russia banned Bitcointalk. When did it happen? Was it in response to the war in Ukraine, or is it because of their attitude towards Bitcoin?

[Rikafip]

I had no idea that Russia banned Bitcointalk. When did it happen? Was it in response to the war in Ukraine, or is it because of their attitude towards Bitcoin?

It happened almost 2 years ago, on March 25th 2020 and it seems that the main reason was gambling promotion, more precisely Bitstarz casino scamming people. They basically banned the whole forum over one topic. You can find more info in this thread.

The only thing that never changes is the question of the champion in the number of posts on the Croatian part of the forum  

Haha yeah, our numbers would be much lower if it weren't for him. Then again, almost every local board has its own slackovic that is way more active than everyone else.

[Pmalek]

It happened almost 2 years ago, on March 25th 2020 and it seems that the main reason was gambling promotion, more precisely Bitstarz casino scamming people. They basically banned the whole forum over one topic. You can find more info in this thread.

The word idiots comes to mind when I remember that situation and reason why the forum got banned in Russia. They should ban Hotmail and Yahoo as well because that hot girl who emails you that she is in your neighborhood and wants sex, is not there at all. Those boner pills don't work either. Another reason why those two providers should be restricted. 

Haha yeah, our numbers would be much lower if it weren't for him. Then again, almost every local board has its own slackovic that is way more active than everyone else.

Let's just hope slackovic doesn't start slacking and posting less than he commonly does.

[Igebotz]

I had no idea that Russia banned Bitcointalk. When did it happen? Was it in response to the war in Ukraine, or is it because of their attitude towards Bitcoin?

It happened almost 2 years ago, on March 25th 2020 and it seems that the main reason was gambling promotion, more precisely Bitstarz casino scamming people. They basically banned the whole forum over one topic. You can find more info in this thread.

So every Russian on the forum uses VPN or Tor to access the forum? Or has the ban been lifted?

The only thing that never changes is the question of the champion in the number of posts on the Croatian part of the forum 

Haha yeah, our numbers would be much lower if it weren't for him. Then again, almost every local board has its own slackovic that is way more active than everyone else.

Lol. The Nigeria board has Charles-Tim, who hasn't been defeated in either weekly or monthly stats for a year and a half now, and he's the reason our local corner is still very active.

[Charles-Tim]

So every Russian on the forum uses VPN or Tor to access the forum? Or has the ban been lifted?

Yes, exactly.

But I do not know if Russia are making this more complicated this time around or it has just been rumour as a result of this Ukraine war.

Russia going offline?

But I think it is just a rumor, VPN and Tor will still be used.

The Nigeria board has Charles-Tim, who hasn't been defeated in either weekly or monthly stats for a year and a half now, and he's the reason our local corner is still very active.

Thanks Igehhh. I appreciate that. I find it easier to post on our local thread, I do not know why though but it seems easier. Even I was surprised I have most posts when to me I wasn't really active.

Edit: Best answered by Ratimov.

[dkbit98]

Absolutely everyone. Without a VPN, access to the forum is closed, and even despite the fact that the government began to look towards the legalization of cryptocurrencies, this forum still remains prohibited. Just like TOR. It was also recently blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation.

This is crazy, I didn't know bitcointalk is so ''dangerous'' in some countries.
Is there some list to see all the websites that are banned, and does every VPN provider working in Russia or some of them are unavailable?

Haha yeah, our numbers would be much lower if it weren't for him. Then again, almost every local board has its own slackovic that is way more active than everyone else.

I think this word should by definition be universally accepted in bitcointalk forum as most active local member.
So when we look other local sections you could say that joker_josue from Portuguese section is the Slackovic of the month, as the most active member from all local sections.
You can also award local slackovices in each individual local section, and you can even use shorter version slacko or have deidcated slacko-badge.

[Igebotz]

So every Russian on the forum uses VPN or Tor to access the forum? Or has the ban been lifted?

Absolutely everyone. Without a VPN, access to the forum is closed, and even despite the fact that the government began to look towards the legalization of cryptocurrencies, this forum still remains prohibited. Just like TOR. It was also recently blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation.

In general, the Russian government encourages every crypto user to learn how to bypass locks and hide their real data.

Tbh, the last part of your post sounds interesting. There are some rumors going around on Twitter that Russia is attempting to disconnect from the worldwideweb (www). I'm not sure how reliable or even possible this is.

[slackovic]

Haha yeah, our numbers would be much lower if it weren't for him. Then again, almost every local board has its own slackovic that is way more active than everyone else.

I think this word should by definition be universally accepted in bitcointalk forum as most active local member.
So when we look other local sections you could say that joker_josue from Portuguese section is the Slackovic of the month, as the most active member from all local sections.
You can also award local slackovices in each individual local section, and you can even use shorter version slacko or have deidcated slacko-badge.

Haha. You guys are funny. I normally don't look at the posts where I get notification about being mentioned because it's normally some statistic stuff. But now that I was mentioned so many times in this thread, I had to take a look. I'm glad that I'm being recognized as a valuable member of our local section

[uchegod-21]

This is a good statistics. I think I have come across this kind of local board statistics from a different poster or it can be this one.
I was looking at the first two most active contributors in every local board and it was beautiful and fun.
Many of them are popular and committed in the forum like: Ratimov for Russia, fillippone for Italy. Joker_josue, little mouse, and many others. For my country, I appreciate the effort of Charles-Tim who is always active and not tired and other members there. I will try my best to increase my own quota of contributions in the Nigerian Local Board.

[skarais]

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I will try my best to increase my own quota of contributions in the Nigerian Local Board.

You will not be forced to contribute to your local higher especially if you can write English well and correctly. Also I see there is a dynamic in the number of different contributions between the posters especially if the campaign they are promoting doesn't count Local posts. Usually the number of posts from these users on Local will decrease as they realize that the posts will not be paid for.

Contributions on the Local Board are certainly welcome especially if you really want to keep your board active with your top quality posts. Apart from that, I can also say that when one finds it difficult to get merit on the global board with English then they are expected to get it on the Local Board mainly because of their good mastery of the language.

[Igebotz]

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I will try my best to increase my own quota of contributions in the Nigerian Local Board.

You will not be forced to contribute to your local higher especially if you can write English well and correctly. Also I see there is a dynamic in the number of different contributions between the posters especially if the campaign they are promoting doesn't count Local posts. Usually the number of posts from these users on Local will decrease as they realize that the posts will not be paid for.

I disagree with your last sentence because there are still users whose local board posts are not included in their weekly post quota, but they are still much more active than most users whose local board posts are included in their weekly quota; what attracts most users to local boards is the nature of discussion. I've been idle on my local board for a while now because there aren't any topics that I'm interested in.

[Coyster]

Apart from that, I can also say that when one finds it difficult to get merit on the global board with English then they are expected to get it on the Local Board mainly because of their good mastery of the language.

That could be true, but that can only happen on some local boards with dedicated Merit Sources, i mean, some local boards/threads do not even have a Merit source in their local section, thus the distribution of merits there would be more or less low, and if a user from such locale decides to post constantly on their local section solely for merits, then they will be disappointed and leave sooner rather than later.

Having said that, i personally feel that most 'local board posters' are not there in search of merits or cause their campaign counts local post, i mean, for instance there are users who post on their local board even when they are not on any campaign. Local board just has this nice feeling as you are discussing with your country men/women about local issues that concerns you all and everyone in there understands it all well as they are likewise having such experience.

[skarais]

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You don't have to agree with me based on the facts and statistics I have in the Local Board Indonesia. I may agree that some posters whose posts are not considered valid posts for the campaign can also be active on the Local Board, but I can say that the number is very limited.

I admit that being active on the Local Board is one of the joys of anyone who wants to contribute to their Local users. A number of interesting topics will really help us to be able to do this, but contributing to the Local Board is not only about how many posts we have but by distributing merit to quality posts also makes us contributors.

[NoorulHuda]

Many of them are popular and committed in the forum like: Ratimov for Russia, fillippone for Italy. Joker_josue, little mouse, and many others.

And shahzadafzal and Sayeds56 for Pakistan.

I will try my best to increase my own quota of contributions in the Nigerian Local Board.

I will also try to increase my contributions in Pakistan local board.

[Rikafip]

To show that last month was not a fluke, here is another monthly overview of the local boards that is released in the reasonable time frame. As always charts and table are made using data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja Ninjastic.space. Thanks guys for your awesome tools!

Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Nigerian, Bangladesh) don't have their own local boards. Not yet at least.


Post activity per local board during March 2022

After few months of decline, we finally have increase; during March 2022, 19044 posts were written across local boards which is 7% increase compared to February. I honestly expected for this decline to continue but I am glad that I was wrong. As always, Russian board is far ahead of the other and that number is even more impressive when you take into consideration that in order to access bitcointalk from Russia you have to use VPN. Rest of the top 5 consist of standard names: Turkish, German, Indonesian and Portuguese boards, while similar situation is at the bottom that is also occupied by usual suspects.

When it comes to biggest gainers, only 2 really stand out, and they don't even have their own local board, Pakistan and Nigerian. While in February  Pakistan post count was already impressive 301  in March they had 696 that is 130% increase that puts them at very high 6th spot. Regarding Nigerian, their increase is impressive as well; from 191 in February to 348 in March so that makes it ~78% increase.

Number of posters per local board during March 2022

Even though there was a decent increase in the amount of posts written, that was not followed by the increase of active members as during March 1359 users wrote at least 1 post, while February number was slightly higher, 1396 users. Given that fact, numbers are very similar to the previous period whihc is kinda expected anyway as new members don't easily come and disappear but rather people increase or decrease their activity.

Post/user ratio per local board for March 2022

Due popular demand and suggestion, I am introducing new chart that shows post per user ratio across local boards. As expected, more active boards tend to have higher ratio as it makes it much easier to enter into discussions if you have more different users.

Merit shared per local board during March 2022

The increase of number of posts was followed by merit increase; during March. 6981 merits were shared that makes it approximately 10% increase compared to February during which 6340 merits were shared across all local boards. When it comes to ranks, no surprises there: Russian is far ahead followed by Turkish, German and Italian. Top 8 is almost identical to February, with only Indonesian board dropping few spots down.

When it comes to biggest gainers, three  boards that stand out are Pakistan and Italian. Italian board increased merit shared by ~36% (from 539 to 736) and that is  a very good result for such a big board, while Pakistan board had the biggest increase, from 130 in February to 200 during March and all that while not even having their own local board. Worth mentioning are also French and Nigerian who also had decent increase but imho those numbers could be even higher.

Regarding decrease of the merit shared, the only local board that stands out is Indonesian that had 322 merits shared during March, which is almost 40% decrease compared to February and 536 merits shared.

Merit senders/receivers per local board for March 2022

As always, pretty straightforward chart. The only difference I may make in the future is to sort the boards by total amount of senders/receivers and not based on the amount shared like I was doing for now.

Merit/Post ratio per local board for March 2022

More or less the same names are at the top, with Dutch board kinda screwing up the chart. Such a high merit/post ratio tends to happen with less active boards as its very easy to affect it by reltively small amount of merit shared. like it happened in March. That's why I introduced the 12 month average part so it gives a clearer picture of what's really going on in the local boards and to negate these amplitudes.

The most active members per local board during March 2022

And for the end of this monthly overview, list of the most active members across all local boards and several that are yet to get that status.

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	French	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
Excimer [375]	|	mole0815 [187]	|	wolwoo [192]	|	fillippone [148]	|	joker_josue [324]	|	Danydee [60]	|
Warrior Dance [172]	|	bullrun2020bro [148]	|	meser# [130]	|	babo [84]	|	TryNinja [156]	|	Saint-loup [29]	|
The0ldl_lser [157]	|	willi9974 [127]	|	Red Pie [105]	|	Ale88 [64]	|	bitmover [114]	|	patrickus [27]	|
Ratimov [143]	|	bct_ail [109]	|	ZekiBeyy [105]	|	duesoldi [43]	|	Disruptivas [71]	|	LeGaulois [26]	|
Boba Fett_ [138]	|	Soonandwaite [92]	|	mandown [105]	|	Paolo.Demidov [41]	|	Lucasgabd [71]	|	G.Seed [25]	|
ser_trader [132]	|	Lakai01 [91]	|	MK-74 [104]	|	alexrossi [35]	|	gagux123 [54]	|	perl [20]	|
leonello [115]	|	Real-Duke [90]	|	karabiber [102]	|	HedgeFx [29]	|	alegotardo [51]	|	elma [13]	|
xandry [113]	|	Buchi-88 [85]	|	verbakalim [102]	|	Plutosky [23]	|	rdluffy [50]	|	Halab [12]	|
Snork1979 [110]	|	sam00 [81]	|	Phoenix Anka [97]	|	gbianchi [23]	|	Paredao [47]	|	Melja [12]	|
dacosta [94]	|	Unknown01 [79]	|	Gencecikmen [93]	|	jack0m [20]	|	t91 [35]	|	Becassine [10]	|

Spanish	|	Idonesian	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Polish	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
DdmrDdmr [152]	|	DroomieChikito [104]	|	blockman [48]	|	slackovic [65]	|	Tytanowy Janusz [29]	|	Kavelj22 [58]	|
famososMuertos [70]	|	Husna QA [74]	|	Fredomago [37]	|	Trofo [47]	|	wwzsocki [17]	|	Ulven [37]	|
Hispo [36]	|	abhiseshakana [71]	|	serjent05 [35]	|	casperBGD [32]	|	lokas0506 [14]	|	OmegaStarScream [21]	|
Wimex [16]	|	masulum [51]	|	bisdak40 [34]	|	FatFork [31]	|	PawGo [12]	|	mikeywith [15]	|
Artemis3 [12]	|	Luzin [50]	|	Baofeng [27]	|	Daniel91 [28]	|	cygan [12]	|	GxSTxV [10]	|
LUCKMCFLY [12]	|	Razmirraz [45]	|	acroman08 [25]	|	Pmalek [27]	|	malevolent [7]	|	khaled0111 [10]	|
d5000 [12]	|	Republikcoin.com [39]	|	carlisle1 [25]	|	dkbit98 [25]	|	Flangler1 [3]	|	abderrazak belkhir [8]	|
darxiaomi [12]	|	zaim7413 [39]	|	arwin100 [21]	|	cryptofrka [18]	|	cointense [3]	|	bitcoinarabic [8]	|
seoincorporation [12]	|	erep [36]	|	chrisculanag [20]	|	Rikafip [13]	|	KotKot20 [2]	|	s.john [8]	|
Silberman [9]	|	blue Snow [32]	|	Johnyz [19]	|	CroBoy12 [11]	|	OkeyKO [1]	|	yhiaali3 [8]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Pakistan*	|	Nigeria*	|	Bangladesh*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
NeuroticFish [15]	|	sagarbansal21 [18]	|	BlackHatCoiner [8]	|	NoorulHuda [204]	|	Charles-Tim [58]	|	Little Mouse [21]	|
GazetaBitcoin [11]	|	pihumehra09 [16]	|	Nikosbtc [7]	|	Sayeds56 [92]	|	Maestro75 [38]	|	shasan [21]	|
Rizzrack [7]	|	pakhitheboss [10]	|	k0stas [7]	|	Cosmic Beyonders [63]	|	Wiwo [34]	|	wtsimis [14]	|
art5 [3]	|	Coinshots [7]	|	TradingBros [5]	|	shahzadafzal [42]	|	igehhh [27]	|	naim027 [10]	|
cygan [2]	|	Mosharafhh [6]	|	cryptosize [5]	|	UmerIdrees [41]	|	CryptopreneurBrainboss [21]	|	Cleaner00 [9]	|
DuracellDeMonaco [1]	|	Hedgefib [4]	|	sparksy1 [5]	|	kaka_Shipai [38]	|	uchegod-21 [21]	|	musafar37 [9]	|
geordan173 [1]	|	webtricks [4]	|	chek2fire [4]	|	yawars20 [37]	|	Oluwa-btc [19]	|	Crypto Library [6]	|
goodbc [1]	|	libert19 [3]	|	olesg13 [3]	|	Mariah20 [36]	|	SatoPrincess [17]	|	Review Master [5]	|
jedaite [1]	|	avikz [3]	|	bmxakias [2]	|	Expert2022 [25]	|	BIT-BENDER [15]	|	Little Mouse10 [4]	|
	|	mamunsk987 [3]	|	Dimitris [1]	|	Rehan Zakir [11]	|	Marykeller [15]	|	cryptotalklab1 [4]	|

[joker_josue]

Another good month.
This time I didn't come first, we know why. But it was a lively month, in general.

I think April will be a little calmer in general. We'll see.
Good post to everyone.

[fillippone]

Wonderful work @Rikafip!
You even added a few nice charts to your post, which surely tell another part of the story.

I piggybacked your numbers and produced this horrible chart:



It represents the number of total posters on each board and merited users (note that the Turkish number was missing). Trying to complete the analysis, I also plotted the ratio between the two numbers.

[naim027]

I piggybacked your numbers and produced this horrible chart: Awesome chart

Don't you think it's an excellent chart? It would be nice if you could gather up more charts in one scenario. But, If you put a lot of info on a single image, Sometimes people can be confused. Still, this chart looks acceptable to me. I am not asking Rikafip to follow these methods Because if you can brief as many details as possible (Which you are already doing), That will be easy to understand. So, Respect to both of you guys. Well done.

[Rikafip]

Another good month.
This time I didn't come first, we know why. But it was a lively month, in general.

Hah yeah, that troll was spamming all over the place so no wonder that he ended up at the top. Nevertheless you still did great!

It represents the number of total posters on each board and merited users (note that the Turkish number was missing). Trying to complete the analysis, I also plotted the ratio between the two numbers.

Looks interesting, I haven't thought about these kind of combinations but might as well play a little bit with it. Cheers!

Don't you think it's an excellent chart? It would be nice if you could gather up more charts in one scenario. But, If you put a lot of info on a single image, Sometimes people can be confused. Still, this chart looks acceptable to me. I am not asking Rikafip to follow these methods Because if you can brief as many details as possible (Which you are already doing), That will be easy to understand.

Yep, chart looks good and I will certainly think about doing something similar in the next overviews, if I can implement it properly.