[CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity

[skarais]

You are absolutely right, I am long overdue.

Ahaaa, looks like you're late in doing it in the last 2 months mate. But this is actually not a problem because if we want to know more detailed data, the merit dashboard and ninjastic will be very helpful. I almost made it for you, but I'm a little hesitant because it might not be as complete as what you usually do. Lol

I started making those charts few weeks ago, but then I went on a couple of week-long trips that seriously affected my forum activity,

It looks very tiring, but maybe not if you enjoy it like a vacation.   

[fillippone]

Bump / some (I will not point a finger) are late with updates  

You are absolutely right, I am long overdue.

I think you can skip this month’s chore, and updating directly next month.
Your Italian fans will manage to hold their breath for a couple of weeks!

[Rikafip]

The long awaited brief overview of the local board activity is finally here, with the help of @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and @TryNinja ninjastic space.

Communities marked with * don't have their own local boards (yet).


Post activity per local board during August 2021

After several months of absence due the way Merit Dashboard counts the post, Russian board is back on the charts. After some deliberatio I've decided to use ninjastic.space when it comes to Russian board (from the next month I will expand that to other boards as well) post count as by the looks of it there is a lot of things going on there, with topics being deleted/moved around month after month, constantly affecting the numbers. They will be slighly inflated as it will include deleted posts, but I guess we will have to live with it.

Regarding the activity of the other boards, there is no much change compared to July 2021 as top 10 stayed pretty much, with relatively similar numbers. Now when summer is behind us, hopefully numbers go up.

Communities without local board are still looking strong, with Pakistan board being the most active one, followed by Nigerian and are looking pretty good compared to those with local board, especially considering the constrictions of writing everything in one thread which definitely affects their numbers.

Merit shared per local board during August 2021

Compared to July 2021, total amount of merit shared during August stayed approximately the same ( 6905 in July vs 6860 in August). No changes at the top; Russian board is far ahead the others, followed by Turkish, Italian and German.

I don't know what's happening with German board, but they used to be 2nd most merited board for a long time, often having around 1000 merit shared, but lately their numbers keep going down. Another "looser" during August was Portuguese board as their number of merit shared dropped by 50%, from 372 during July to only 187 in August which is low number for one of the most active local boards.

Merit senders and receivers per local board during August 2021

One more chart that looks similar to previous one, with usual names at the top. It's good to see that both German and Portuguese boards are keeping their numbers relatively high, despite the decrease of merit shared.

Merit/Post ratio per local board for June 2021

Once again blue colour dominates the chart (with a few exceptions) meaning majority of boards benefited from the recent increase in source merit. Let's hope it stayes the same in months to come so that red color keeps increasing as well.

The most active members per local board during August 2021

For the end of this overview, list of top 10 most active members per local board. Kudos to them for keeping their boards alive and kicking!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	French	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
Ratimov [189]	|	mole0815 [136]	|	RaltcoinsB [274]	|	fillippone [148]	|	joker_josue [212]	|	patrickus [92]	|
D-oN_ [182]	|	cygan [117]	|	trendcoin [272]	|	Paolo.Demidov [112]	|	TryNinja [146]	|	Melja [86]	|
The0ldl_lser [172]	|	bct_ail [114]	|	ZekiBeyy [266]	|	bitbollo [84]	|	Paredao [112]	|	Saint-loup [73]	|
Azrieli [126]	|	bullrun2020bro [88]	|	MK-74 [252]	|	babo [79]	|	sabotag3x [110]	|	fastlight [46]	|
Snork1979 [115]	|	Soonandwaite [84]	|	verbakalim [249]	|	jack0m [75]	|	rdluffy [77]	|	elma [44]	|
klarki [108]	|	Unknown01 [84]	|	Ozkance [236]	|	Ale88 [70]	|	alegotardo [76]	|	Yaplatu [40]	|
AlexLvov [105]	|	Real-Duke [80]	|	kriminall [224]	|	gbianchi [69]	|	bitmover [75]	|	perl [38]	|
jokers10 [104]	|	willi9974 [77]	|	meser# [224]	|	duesoldi [59]	|	Lucasgabd [67]	|	Booster1888 [36]	|
safar1980 [100]	|	Buchi-88 [73]	|	ajanwalker [214]	|	alexrossi [57]	|	hiroshidw [58]	|	guigui371 [36]	|
Smartprofit [96]	|	-doubleU- [72]	|	Distraction [198]	|	acquafredda [52]	|	tg88 [56]	|	LeGaulois [29]	|

Spanish	|	Indonesian	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Polish	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
DdmrDdmr [123]	|	joniboini [76]	|	blockman [41]	|	slackovic [90]	|	Tytanowy Janusz [21]	|	khaled0111 [34]	|
famososMuertos [61]	|	DroomieChikito [61]	|	Text [38]	|	casperBGD [60]	|	wwzsocki [17]	|	Kavelj22 [26]	|
LUCKMCFLY [37]	|	MAAManda [54]	|	mirakal [38]	|	Trofo [56]	|	cygan [13]	|	yhiaali3 [24]	|
Porfirii [37]	|	blue Snow [45]	|	Peanutswar [30]	|	Daniel91 [53]	|	malevolent [12]	|	OmegaStarScream [16]	|
Hispo [31]	|	masulum [45]	|	peter0425 [30]	|	FatFork [40]	|	Rath_ [5]	|	Thanos01 [16]	|
Silberman [20]	|	Husna QA [44]	|	pilosopotasyo [27]	|	btcltcdigger [37]	|	Flangler [2]	|	sinner27 [16]	|
d5000 [10]	|	abhiseshakana [39]	|	iTradeChips [24]	|	Pmalek [25]	|	Hyde_BF [2]	|	Ulven [14]	|
Artemis3 [8]	|	Luzin [38]	|	arwin100 [23]	|	dkbit98 [25]	|	garlonicon [2]	|	abderrazak belkhir [9]	|
GoingIntoAction [7]	|	nurilham [33]	|	Eureka_07 [19]	|	cryptofrka [24]	|	tumis [2]	|	bert1587 [7]	|
womanderful [7]	|	Mukmin [32]	|	goinmerry [19]	|	CroBoy12 [18]	|	2girls1facemask [1]	|	@IceWolf [5]	|

Romanian	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Pakistan	|	Nigerian	|	Bangladesh	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
NeuroticFish [24]	|	Manish2809 [16]	|	chek2fire [9]	|	techearn17 [62]	|	Charles-Tim [41]	|	Review Master [12]	|
20kevin20 [23]	|	pakhitheboss [12]	|	cryptosize [3]	|	Sayeds56 [61]	|	igehhh [22]	|	Rahman11 [7]	|
GazetaBitcoin [22]	|	amishmanish [8]	|	BlackHatCoiner [2]	|	CryptoYar [33]	|	CryptopreneurBrainboss [14]	|	Little Mouse [5]	|
CarPatin [8]	|	Bitcoin Smith [7]	|	Dimitris [2]	|	Ronzybloch [29]	|	Mpamaegbu [14]	|	Malam90 [5]	|
Rizzrack [7]	|	airdata [7]	|	ownershipper [2]	|	UmerIdrees [23]	|	Nathrixxx [14]	|	Cornia [4]	|
teykio [6]	|	teosanru [7]	|	Bluto [1]	|	shahzadafzal [23]	|	Fivestar4everMVP [7]	|	Jontokhan65 [4]	|
t3b.e7Ps [5]	|	starbasecrypto [6]	|	CryptoIsMyMoney.COM [1]	|	5thFear [14]	|	Pokapoka124 [7]	|	BitCoinDream [3]	|
Madvill [3]	|	Lordshiva [5]	|	Ioannis82 [1]	|	cryptobadshah [12]	|	BIT-BENDER [6]	|	Dextrust_Defi [3]	|
PremiumPay [3]	|	erikalui [5]	|	JohnJohn18 [1]	|	ZAINmalik75 [9]	|	Coyster [4]	|	RIFAT001 [3]	|
Razvan_BTC [2]	|	pawanjain [5]	|	Xydea [1]	|	syedakhlaque [4]	|	CryptocurencyKing [3]	|	abdurrahman99 [3]	|

Let's see if I can make next overview in time, without anyone reminding me.

[Pmalek]

Let's see if I can make next overview in time, without anyone reminding me.

I remain skeptical.
It's nice to see those improved numbers in the Croatian local. Especially the stats about the number of merits per board and the merit/post ratio. The data shows that every second post is getting merited, which is pleasant. But I am wondering when we (the Croatian local) will get a decent new newbie who will start his journey on Bitcointalk and decide to stick around...

[ShowOff]

I am happy to see that Indonesian local board are ranked 6th as the most active local board with the number of posts above 900 and it seems that the number of merit distributed has also increased slightly compared to the previous month. Actually I've seen it in the skarais thread since the beginning of the month specifically for the activities of local Indonesian board but this thread is a more complete version for all existing local board.

Although the number of merit senders and recipient in the Indonesian local board is not very large, I hope the number of merit distributed can increase or at least stay above 200 merit every month. Based on my observations so far about the distribution of merit in local Indonesian board, I can conclude that the number of quality posters there is rather limited, so that it seems that merit recipients and senders are only in that circle. It is difficult to get people to change and improve the quality of their posts and it will greatly affect the number of distribution merit. So the conclusion is if users focus on getting merit in local board then I'm sure they will take a little longer to rank up because the number of scattered merit is still less than 300 per month and most senders don't have the habit of sending more than 1 merit per tx.

[FatFork]

Based on Ratimov's explanation, I agree that Ninjastic.space should give better results, though I wonder if there is a way to exclude deleted posts from the results.

[Rikafip]

[ I remain skeptical.

Fair enough. Based on my recent track record, I am too 

It's nice to see those improved numbers in the Croatian local. Especially the stats about the number of merits per board and the merit/post ratio. The data shows that every second post is getting merited, which is pleasant.

Merit wise, we are finally where we wanted to be and for the first time those that are mostly active in our board can't complain that it's hard to rank up.

But I am wondering when we (the Croatian local) will get a decent new newbie who will start his journey on Bitcointalk and decide to stick around...

Yep, that's the biggest issue we have at the moment. It's not a comfort, but I guess that similar situation is in the other local boards and forum in general so we are not an exception here. I tried to bring some people to bitcointalk, to no avail. And if recent Bitcoin rally to 60k+ didn't bring more people to bitcointalk, I don't now what will.

So the conclusion is if users focus on getting merit in local board then I'm sure they will take a little longer to rank up because the number of scattered merit is still less than 300 per month and most senders don't have the habit of sending more than 1 merit per tx.

That bolded part reminded me of something I wanted to add some time ago, and that is merit per transaction chart. Iirc I gave up because some low activity boards had numbers completely screwed up (e.g one transaction of 20 merits) that would mess up the chart. Anyway, I made it now and maybe I'll add it to my monthly overview.

[dkbit98]

But I am wondering when we (the Croatian local) will get a decent new newbie who will start his journey on Bitcointalk and decide to stick around...

Maybe we need to make some posters, stickers and advertisements for attracting young new ₿lood for local forum  

Based on Ratimov's explanation, I agree that Ninjastic.space should give better results, though I wonder if there is a way to exclude deleted posts from the results.

I don't think this is possible now, unless TryNinja adds this option for exclusion of deleted posts.

[ShowOff]

That bolded part reminded me of something I wanted to add some time ago, and that is merit per transaction chart.

Rikafip, I believe this will help more users to know more about merit distribution activities in local board including habits per tx. So far it seems to me that local Indonesian board only have two sources of merit "which still appear to be active" based on their merit history in the last 120 days. Husna QA and ETFbitcoin are very active on the local board as a source of merit, but because the number of merit per tx is too low, the merit distribution of both cant increase the number of merit to more than 300 per months on the local board Indonesian.

Here's the comparison. Maybe I should also suggest both to slightly increase the amount of merit per tx for the next month.  

[Igebotz]

Fun fact: As of August, the Russian board had distributed a total of 2850 merits, which is 741 more than the meta (2109), they are already at 1627 in September with 7 days to go I'm betting they have more merit sources than any other board, or the board is full of high-quality posters and generous givers.

[FatFork]

Fun fact: As of August, the Russian board had distributed a total of 2850 merits, which is 741 more than the meta (2109), they are already at 1627 in September with 7 days to go I'm betting they have more merit sources than any other board, or the board is full of high-quality posters and generous givers.

Бoжe мoй! Maybe it's time for me to start learning Russian?
The language is similar to my native Croatian, and I already learned the Cyrillic alphabet as a kid.

[fillippone]

I am happy to see that Indonesian local board are ranked 6th as the most active local board with the number of posts above 900 and it seems that the number of merit distributed has also increased slightly compared to the previous month.

Well, the Italian board is actually trying to catch up with yours ,so... we will have to increase the effort!

Fun fact: As of August, the Russian board had distributed a total of 2850 merits, which is 741 more than the meta (2109), they are already at 1627 in September with 7 days to go I'm betting they have more merit sources than any other board, or the board is full of high-quality posters and generous givers.

It's easy to notice that the Russian board has been the only one rallying changing after the last merit reshuffle: they have literally taken off! Not exactly sure what happened there, but for sure they were good at fully capitalizing on the change!


EDIT: @Ratimov has just posted a few details above.

[Pmalek]

Maybe we need to make some posters, stickers and advertisements for attracting young new ₿lood for local forum  

The occasional mention of Bitcointalk in Croatian forums about technology, IT, and stuff like that could maybe get some new people interested. 

Fun fact: As of August, the Russian board had distributed a total of 2850 merits, which is 741 more than the meta (2109), they are already at 1627 in September with 7 days to go I'm betting they have more merit sources than any other board, or the board is full of high-quality posters and generous givers.

I think it's a combination of both those things. It's the biggest local board with more active members than anywhere else. I just took a look at Rikafip's stats showing the members who were most active in the Russian local. Obviously we have all seen Ratimov around, but I have no idea who D-oN_ is (2nd on the list in terms of activity). Looking at the first 5 pages from his post history, all his posts were made in the Russian boards.

It's the same thing with the 3rd most active Russian - The0ldl_lser. Not a single post in English in the first 5 pages of his post history.
Azrieli has a few posts in English, but the majority of his writing also takes place in the local sub.

I bet there are many Russians who don't even speak English or write in the English boards, but they are very active on Bitcointalk and get plenty of merits in the local board alone.

[Rikafip]

The occasional mention of Bitcointalk in Croatian forums about technology, IT, and stuff like that could maybe get some new people interested. 

I tried that, to no avail. Thinking if it, I talked to every single person I know IRL (that is into crypto) about bitcointalk and responses I got were from "bitcointalk is one big signature campaign circlejerk and echo chamber" (that's coming from veterans) to "what can I find on bitcointalk that I can't find someplace else" (mostly coming from new people). Neither is true, but that's how they perceive bitcointalk.

It's the same thing with the 3rd most active Russian - The0ldl_lser. Not a single post in English in the first 5 pages of his post history.
Azrieli has a few posts in English, but the majority of his writing also takes place in the local sub.

That's one of the advantages of big boards like Russian, German and Turkish; they are practically self-sufficient and members can find everything inside their own board. So even if they know English to some degree, majority of them will just rather stay there.

[Igebotz]

Fun fact: As of August, the Russian board had distributed a total of 2850 merits, which is 741 more than the meta (2109), they are already at 1627 in September with 7 days to go I'm betting they have more merit sources than any other board, or the board is full of high-quality posters and generous givers.

Бoжe мoй! Maybe it's time for me to start learning Russian?
The language is similar to my native Croatian, and I already learned the Cyrillic alphabet as a kid.

Safe travels on your new adventure, man!! Since January 2021, a total of 13k merits have been distributed. I'm not sure if there are any statistics to show how many members ranked up during this time.You're a good poster, you might end up with double your merits if you join the board.

[....]

I think it's a combination of both those things. It's the biggest local board with more active members than anywhere else. I just took a look at Rikafip's stats showing the members who were most active in the Russian local. Obviously we have all seen Ratimov around, but I have no idea who D-oN_ is (2nd on the list in terms of activity). Looking at the first 5 pages from his post history, all his posts were made in the Russian boards....]

Yes, they had over 7k+ postings in the last month, which is incredible and only goes to show how passionate the Russians are about their board. The Turkish and German boards are also keeping up with the pace.

[skarais]

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As usual, I ask permission to take some data from this latest update post to complete my thread. I think it will be much more complete if I also add the most active posters on other Local Board as comparison for the Indonesian Local Board. Hopefully it can help the posters of the Indonesian Local Board to be encouraged to be even more active in posting quality things.

Well, the Italian board is actually trying to catch up with yours ,so... we will have to increase the effort!

fillippone, I regret that I can't do much for the Indonesian Local Board especially as a merit distributor because I don't have enough sMerit to distribute it there. I've previously been advised to apply as a merit source, will probably do so in the future when I'm really ready. For now I'm just trying to get more to help Indonesian Local Board users get some of their posts that I consider quality. As ShowOff already mentioned, we have 2 merit source that are still pretty active while we're also missing a few like Joniboini and dbshck. Hopefully we get their replacement as soon as possible or hope they return to their activities as a source of merit.

[shahzadafzal]

Merit senders and receivers per local board during August 2021

Hey Rikafip amazing work.. you know your graphs are one of the motivators in the local boards trust me. Any way its a great work as always keep it up.

Just wondering why Pakistan doesn't appear in this above graph of "Merit senders and receivers"? I know since Pakistan is not a local board technically and may be tracking individual sender receiver might be tricky?

[Pmalek]

Just wondering why Pakistan doesn't appear in this above graph of "Merit senders and receivers"? I know since Pakistan is not a local board technically and may be tracking individual sender receiver might be tricky?

I think you have answered your own question. He only tracks merits distributed in sections which have their own local boards. Local threads, such as that of Pakistan are not included. I don't think it would make much sense to include the Pakistani local thread without also including the threads of Bangladesh, Serbia, Vietnam, Ukraine, etc. The names I mentioned are based solely on the number of posts in those language sections. And if you include one or two, there are always going to be questions why didn't you also include this one or that one...

[Rikafip]

As usual, I ask permission to take some data from this latest update post to complete my thread. I think it will be much more complete if I also add the most active posters on other Local Board as comparison for the Indonesian Local Board. Hopefully it can help the posters of the Indonesian Local Board to be encouraged to be even more active in posting quality things.

As I told you before, no need to ask for permission, feel free to use these charts whenever you want. As long as you mention the source of course.

Just wondering why Pakistan doesn't appear in this above graph of "Merit senders and receivers"? I know since Pakistan is not a local board technically and may be tracking individual sender receiver might be tricky?

Because Merit Dashboard tracks that only for boards, not specific topics. There are probably ways to get that info for Pakistan topic (manually counting?) so if you figure it out and can provide the info I will include it in the chart.

He only tracks merits distributed in sections which have their own local boards. Local threads, such as that of Pakistan are not included. I don't think it would make much sense to include the Pakistani local thread without also including the threads of Bangladesh, Serbia, Vietnam, Ukraine, etc. The names I mentioned are based solely on the number of posts in those language sections. And if you include one or two, there are always going to be questions why didn't you also include this one or that one...

I do track merit for 3 communities that don't have their own local board (Nigerian, Pakistan and Bangladesh), but not senders/receivers due before mentioned reasons. Originally, Serbian topic was included in those charts too (from 10/2020 to 04/2021), but post activity there dropped so much that I decided to remove it and focus only on those communities that have regular activity and some chances of getting their own local board, as that was the idea behind adding communities that don't have their own local boards, to somewhat help them, or at least try.

[shahzadafzal]

Inn ki bhi sun lo…

This is so sad he’s one of the top TV journalist in Pakistan with 4.4m Twitter followers.

They don’t do any R&D by themselves just Google and read whatever crap available online on the first page and start giving suggestions to governments.

These so called journalists behave like they are experts of every thing whatever the hot topic on circulation. During pandemic they were experts of Corona Virus and vaccination then when recent Afghanistan was in news they were war experts of Taliban and think tanks or policy makers of Afghanistan. Now this Chinese FUD and they are cashing in with their financial advices… …!!!