Merits Tree - Monthly Results

[fillippone]

Not only I finished second this month, something that I expected to happen, but also I wasn’t even able to top 50 merits to my first three most valuable merit destinations.
Slacking is real.


Truly, even if I top some user with 50 merits is usually difficult to micromanage the merit stash on order to get to 50 merits senta on the last day of the month.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Slacking is real.

Hell yeah it's real.  Before I started that thread in Meta with my rules for post review requests, I was only getting a handful every month and I was accumulating earned sMerits in the hundreds and never running out of sauce sMerits.  There were long periods when I wasn't doing a great job as a merit source, or at least not as good as I wanted to.  After creating that thread, I suddenly got a ton of "targets" for merits, and I'm chronically out of both sauce and earned sMerits.  But honestly, I prefer the current situation (though it'd be better if I had enough sMerits to keep up with the requests).

Truly, even if I top some user with 50 merits is usually difficult to micromanage the merit stash on order to get to 50 merits senta on the last day of the month.

Not sure what you mean exactly.  You're talking about it being hard to get rid of your sMerit stash by the last day of the month?  Didn't you create a thread that's similar to my offer?  I would think there'd be no problem whatsoever giving away as many merits as you're able to.

[fillippone]

Slacking is real.

Hell yeah it's real. 

Everyday it passes I Do realise more and more ho much I underestimated the effort to be at par with that topic.

It's pretty busy IRL in these days for ^reasons , but this thread is a time sink.

]Not sure what you mean exactly. 

To top this particular chart you must be sure you topped 50 merits to everyone on the last day of the month.
So you need a bit of commitment for being sure no more merits can be sent to your peers on that evening.

[joker_josue]

Hell yeah it's real. 

Everyday it passes I Do realise more and more ho much I underestimated the effort to be at par with that topic.

It may seem difficult at times, but I believe that you can manage it well, and proof of that is being able to be in the top 20 of those who give the most merits every month.
If one day I reach your level, I will certainly want to learn from you. Undoubtedly, you are doing an excellent job! 

[fillippone]

It may seem difficult at times, but I believe that you can manage it well, and proof of that is being able to be in the top 20 of those who give the most merits every month.
If one day I reach your level, I will certainly want to learn from you. Undoubtedly, you are doing an excellent job! 

I just have this thing in my subconscious that might be some kind of pathological disorder, that when I see a rank or a chart I must immediately fit into it.

There are many ways of doing things, and not necessarily you have to do that topping some weird metric of choice.
(Not meaning your trees are a weird metric).
 I hope I could make myself understood.

[joker_josue]

I just have this thing in my subconscious that might be some kind of pathological disorder, that when I see a rank or a chart I must immediately fit into it.

There are many ways of doing things, and not necessarily you have to do that topping some weird metric of choice.
(Not meaning your trees are a weird metric).
 I hope I could make myself understood.

Clearly understood.  

And I believe that this is a way to keep motivated to continue to be better. These trees allow you to have another type of analysis, for your subconscious purpose.

I'm thinking about making these trees, for about the top 10 of the local boards. What do you think?

[fillippone]

I'm thinking about making these trees, for about the top 10 of the local boards. What do you think?

That would be really interesting, and something definitely worth of analysis.

It would definitely add something to my “meta” analysis.

On a more technical side: how would you identify a thread on a given board?

[aysg76]

Hell yeah it's real.  Before I started that thread in Meta with my rules for post review requests, I was only getting a handful every month and I was accumulating earned sMerits in the hundreds and never running out of sauce sMerits.  There were long periods when I wasn't doing a great job as a merit source, or at least not as good as I wanted to.  After creating that thread, I suddenly got a ton of "targets" for merits, and I'm chronically out of both sauce and earned sMerits.  But honestly, I prefer the current situation (though it'd be better if I had enough sMerits to keep up with the requests).

It was expected that after you opened up that thread in Meta you would be having lot of user request for post review because all want to gain merits and before that thread your merit policy was known to those who read your post as you have said that they can PM you for post review.But after that thread many came to know about it and it's better to distribute merits then hoarding them which you are currently doing and it must be very time consuming task and you have helped many members to reach their next rank including me also.So best wishes to you and keep up the good work this way only.

Didn't you create a thread that's similar to my offer?  I would think there'd be no problem whatsoever giving away as many merits as you're able to.

Yeah he has created a thread for helping members where they can submit their good post and he reviews them for merit distribution and has given lot of merits in that particular thread on different posts.

I just have this thing in my subconscious that might be some kind of pathological disorder, that when I see a rank or a chart I must immediately fit into it.

This is why whenever we see some kind of top contributors list on the forum your name is always there in the list which is really appreciable because you need to have commitment towards that work which you manage effectively.If it's merit tree,forum awards ,pizza contest or pumpkin craving contest we see our Italian bitcoin geek there so it's really good to have participation at this level.

[joker_josue]

On a more technical side: how would you identify a thread on a given board?

I took the list of users, presented by @Rikafip and then created a tree thinking about these users, from the local board.
Then I do the same were this, with the username managed to know all the data.

[fillippone]

On a more technical side: how would you identify a thread on a given board?

I took the list of users, presented by @Rikafip and then created a tree thinking about these users, from the local board.
Then I do the same were this, with the username managed to know all the data.

Ok,
So if I merit bitbollo on an international board, this merit counts toward the local board activity, while I don’t think it should.
In the other hand, the merits I dropped on @ddmrddmr on the Spanish board aren’t counted, while they should.
I think only merits exchanged on the threads on each boards should be counted, but I don’t think such a table exist.

[joker_josue]

Ok,
So if I merit bitbollo on an international board, this merit counts toward the local board activity, while I don’t think it should.
In the other hand, the merits I dropped on @ddmrddmr on the Spanish board aren’t counted, while they should.
I think only merits exchanged on the threads on each boards should be counted, but I don’t think such a table exist.

Well, really that would be super interesting.

But, that would require a deeper analysis and very, very laborious. Please don't give me this challenge... because I don't know if I would be able to refuse...

[fillippone]

Ok,
So if I merit bitbollo on an international board, this merit counts toward the local board activity, while I don’t think it should.
In the other hand, the merits I dropped on @ddmrddmr on the Spanish board aren’t counted, while they should.
I think only merits exchanged on the threads on each boards should be counted, but I don’t think such a table exist.

Well, really that would be super interesting.

But, that would require a deeper analysis and very, very laborious. Please don't give me this challenge... because I don't know if I would be able to refuse...

For some (easy) project of mine I have been scanning the usual sources, @ddmrddmr, @tryninja and @LoyceV trying to figure out if there is a table linking thread number to the relative board.
But I wasn't able to find one.
This kind of information would add an interesting layer to all those analysis.
Of course something similar must exists, as every merit is linked to a local board, somehow.

[TryNinja]

trying to figure out if there is a table linking thread number to the relative board.

Can you reword what you're talking about? I believe I could easily get the number of merits in a specific board and/or to/from each user, is that it? How would you like the data to look like?

[fillippone]

Can you reword what you're talking about? I believe I could easily get the number of merits in a specific board and/or to/from each user, is that it? How would you like the data to look like?

I would like to have a table with the number of merits seats from a specific user to another specific user on a specific board

i.e.

something like:

Code:

Italian Board
fillippone to babo: 40
babo to fillippone: 10
fillippone to plutosky: 5
plutosky to duesoldi: 3
<...>
Spanish Board
ddmrddmr to famososmuertos: 34
fillippone to dmrddmr: 2

and so on

[TryNinja]

I would like to have a table with the number of merits seats from a specific user to another specific user on a specific board

Sounds very doable, will look at it this weekend.

[fillippone]

I would like to have a table with the number of merits seats from a specific user to another specific user on a specific board

Sounds very doable, will look at it this weekend.

Yet another graph to add to my META post! Hurray!

I have a few interesting visualisation that would come handy for this data.
And of course, Italian merit trees thanks to @joker_josue

[joker_josue]

I would like to have a table with the number of merits seats from a specific user to another specific user on a specific board

Sounds very doable, will look at it this weekend.

Yet another graph to add to my META post! Hurray!

I have a few interesting visualisation that would come handy for this data.
And of course, Italian merit trees thanks to @joker_josue

Let's do it!
For my part, I just need to know on which board each merit was given. Having this information, I can easily adjust my data to make this type of trees. 

[LoyceV]

So if I merit bitbollo on an international board, this merit counts toward the local board activity, while I don’t think it should.

Well, really that would be super interesting.

But, that would require a deeper analysis and very, very laborious. Please don't give me this challenge... because I don't know if I would be able to refuse...

Take the challenge
It should be that hard: once you have a list of boards, you can add it to a TSV file with Merit transactions. Then all you need to do is use the boards you're looking for, and ignore the rest. Are you using merit.all.txt as input data for this?

[joker_josue]

Take the challenge
It should be that hard: once you have a list of boards, you can add it to a TSV file with Merit transactions. Then all you need to do is use the boards you're looking for, and ignore the rest. Are you using merit.all.txt as input data for this?

Yes, I'm using that file.
But how do I now associate each merit to a board? 

[fillippone]

Take the challenge
It should be that hard: once you have a list of boards, you can add it to a TSV file with Merit transactions. Then all you need to do is use the boards you're looking for, and ignore the rest. Are you using merit.all.txt as input data for this?

Yes, I'm using that file.
But how do I now associate each merit to a board? 

As far as I remember on that file each merit transaction refers to a thread, so I need a table linking each thread to a board.

But how does the @ddmrddmr merit dashboard works on this detail? How do he knows where a specific merits belong to?
Blindly, I am missing something.