Merits in WO

[bitmover]

I just discovered nutildah thread about merit in WO. But it is now locked.

I made this network chart about 3 years ago and didn't updated it anymore. I just updated it now with today's data (using LoyceV website data)



https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/5379872

I just updated it, as I believe people who are looking into those merits may find it useful

You can just click any dot (user) to see who merited who, and how much they received.

[philipma1957]

I just discovered nutildah thread about merit in WO. But it is now locked.

I made this network chart about 3 years ago and didn't updated it anymore. I just updated it now with today's data (using LoyceV website data)



https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/5379872

I just updated it, as I believe people who are looking into those merits may find it useful

You can just click any dot (user) to see who merited who, and how much they received.

Took me a while but I did find my dot pretty good work on your part to make it.

[SamReomo]

I just discovered nutildah thread about merit in WO. But it is now locked.

I made this network chart about 3 years ago and didn't updated it anymore. I just updated it now with today's data (using LoyceV website data)

I just updated it, as I believe people who are looking into those merits may find it useful

You can just click any dot (user) to see who merited who, and how much they received.

Took me a while but I did find my dot pretty good work on your part to make it.

You don't need to worry because I found your dot for you.

Here you go:

[joker_josue]

This analysis of the bitmover data is very interesting. Good job.


I would like to take this opportunity to leave the link to the file I created, which lists the merits sent and received. It does not detail the origin, just the list of who gave and who received, merits in the WO.
File: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AuWqcTrLK_TciKVm8Z0GKtmpF1rBpQ?e=qyx6gP

[digaran]

Wow, really nice, is there a map for global merit transactions, I think we could form a planet and identify third world, rich and poor countries ( forums, boards ) and of course finding the infamous 1% rich having 99% of resources.😂

[DYING_S0UL]

I just discovered nutildah thread about merit in WO. But it is now locked.

I made this network chart about 3 years ago and didn't updated it anymore. I just updated it now with today's data (using LoyceV website data)



https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/5379872

I just updated it, as I believe people who are looking into those merits may find it useful

You can just click any dot (user) to see who merited who, and how much they received.

It looked like it was very hard to made! I'm pretty sure it was. Can you please elaborate how you did it? It made me quite interesting.

[BTW it looks like, spider webs from spiderman across the spider verse  ]

[dragonvslinux]

Managed to find myself quite quickly  

The trick is to move to smaller circles from those that have more merit received than you, and towards members who have sent/received merit.  Is there a way to enable a zoom into this visualisation? Ideally with this and labels it'd show a more complete picture. It's interesting to see though, there are still members I've never heard of who have received hundreds of merit it's ironic.

[bitmover]

It looked like it was very hard to made! I'm pretty sure it was. Can you please elaborate how you did it? It made me quite interesting.

[BTW it looks like, spider webs from spiderman across the spider verse  ]

Thanks

I used pandas , a python library,  to organize LoyceV data. This was the most troubled part. Then I just put data into flourish studio.

[tranthidung]

I used pandas , a python library,  to organize LoyceV data. This was the most troubled part. Then I just put data into flourish studio.

Years ago, DdmrDdmr built it for his merit dashboard but after a few months, that platform or package stopped supporting it. He wrote about reasons why he stopped it on his Merit dashboard.

Previously, I thought you did it directly on Flourish studio and wanted to learn it myself but at the end, it is only where you published it. More works behind the scene need to be done and I don't have skills for it.

I saw it on 1miau's merit source application too and he used Google Fusion table.

[Pmalek]

I wonder if inspect element can be used to find the exact circle that corresponds with someone's username? For example, if you were looking for a username among the circles. I can do a search and find instances of members' usernames but my knowledge of inspect element is limited. Perhaps one knows a way to get it to point or highlight the exact circle you are looking for.

[bitmover]

I wonder if inspect element can be used to find the exact circle that corresponds with someone's username? For example, if you were looking for a username among the circles. I can do a search and find instances of members' usernames but my knowledge of inspect element is limited. Perhaps one knows a way to get it to point or highlight the exact circle you are looking for.

I believe this is mostly a limitation of the flourish package
I think it was designed for a few dozens of nodes, at most. There are thousands of nodes (users) in this view... A search tool or something like that would be nice.

I will see if I can find configurations to improve the visualization

[BenCodie]

Yup, this definitely paints a new light on what nutildah was talking about.

Nice job with this data visualization.

Something should definitely be done. I suggest 0.1x all sMerits ever exchanged in the WO thread, rounded down to the nearest unit. Then, appropriate sMerits should then go to merit sources, to provide more appropriately. (whether this applies to user profile Merit count is another topic).

WO is a thread for price discussion and fun. It's not meant to disrupt merit distribution. A one-time fix should be enough to recirculate merits to more appropriate places. If they recirculate there, then so be it and let it be.

This opinion has changed since my post in nutildah's thread. There I basically said anyone can merit whoever they want/as they see fit. Though after seeing the numbers, I see the problem a lot more clearly.

Watching on.


btw op, the link to nutildah's thread in the OP is broken. It leads to this url currently:

Code:

http://url=https//bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5464370.msg62740255#msg62740255

should lead to

Code:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5464370.msg62740255#msg62740255

[joker_josue]

This opinion has changed since nutildah's thread. There I said, basically, anyone can merit whoever they want/as they see fit. Though after seeing the numbers, I see the problem clearly.

Honestly looking at the numbers, they clearly prove that there is no problem. Although individually there is the feeling that many are taking advantage of themselves to obtain merits in the WO, the reality is not quite like that.

Looking at the numbers, those who received the most merits in this topic (the top100) are users who do not need to hunt for merits, as they have many merits coming from their excellent collaboration on the forum.

I believe that there may be one or two cases of users who obtained some advantage in these merits. But, I don't see it as being something significant that justifies the idea of the problem presented.

Anyway, this is my analysis based on the numbers collected.

[bitmover]

btw op, the link to nutildah's thread in the OP is broken. It leads to this url currently:

Code:

http://url=https//bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5464370.msg62740255#msg62740255

should lead to

Code:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5464370.msg62740255#msg62740255

Thank you. Just fixed.

About a possible merit abuse , I believe WO is almost a board on its own. I think too many merits circulate there and maybe there are  probably too many merit sources. But I don't think this is a problem. Meta is also a board with lots of merit sources, and a lot of merit circulation, but it isn't  so easy to abuse in neither board imo.

[Pmalek]

Something should definitely be done. I suggest 0.1x all sMerits ever exchanged in the WO thread, rounded down to the nearest unit. Then, appropriate sMerits should then go to merit sources, to provide more appropriately. (whether this applies to user profile Merit count is another topic).

I don't think anyone should intervene or make changes to how people distribute merits. I don't think I have ever posted in that thread and I don't get me merits there, but it's not my problem how they merit each other, why, and how much. It's only a problem if there are merit sources selling their merits or creating some sort of exchange groups. I doubt theymos would intervene for anything else. If someone finds memes, humor, sarcasm, or tragedy merit-worthy, I don't think we should ask why that is. 

[examplens]

Something should definitely be done. I suggest 0.1x all sMerits ever exchanged in the WO thread, rounded down to the nearest unit. Then, appropriate sMerits should then go to merit sources, to provide more appropriately. (whether this applies to user profile Merit count is another topic).

I don't think anyone should intervene or make changes to how people distribute merits. I don't think I have ever posted in that thread and I don't get me merits there, but it's not my problem how they merit each other, why, and how much. It's only a problem if there are merit sources selling their merits or creating some sort of exchange groups. I doubt theymos would intervene for anything else. If someone finds memes, humor, sarcasm, or tragedy merit-worthy, I don't think we should ask why that is. 

Perhaps the merit obtained in WO should be expressed differently on each profile page (I believe that this would be possible with the BPIP browser extension). This would make it easier to distinguish those with "easy" merits and it would be much easier to point the finger at them during every discussion.

[JollyGood]

The numbers of merits involved in WO are quite staggering. Now that some campaign managers are looking at the number of merits received by prospective participants to set a pay rate for particular campaigns, this is something they might possibly overlook. Having a two-tier merit display though useful to some degree will probably not be implemented as many would argue the need to not distinguish where the merits were received.

Perhaps the merit obtained in WO should be expressed differently on each profile page (I believe that this would be possible with the BPIP browser extension). This would make it easier to distinguish those with "easy" merits and it would be much easier to point the finger at them during every discussion.

[Pmalek]

The numbers of merits involved in WO are quite staggering. Now that some campaign managers are looking at the number of merits received by prospective participants to set a pay rate for particular campaigns, this is something they might possibly overlook.

That is something completely different, and the campaign managers together with the clients they represent have the right to determine their own rules. I am not sure if LoyceV's or some other tools can be used to easily display where the members have received their merits. That way, if managers don't want to count WO merits, they know how to do it. It's similar to how they get to decide the boards where the posts won't count for the weekly quota.

I just don't feel like the forum and the moderators should intervene and make their own subjective changes by saying we don't like you getting merits in the WO thread so we will now cancel them or perform any other changes. If the WO thread, its posts, and merit sharing are problems, just lock it. But they haven't done that.   

[JollyGood]

WO remains (effectively) unmoderated and posts and merits flow as they do without restriction or censor and it seems that status will not change. WO will not be locked and it will continue under the current rules for a long time to come.

I would not be in favour of a two-tier merit display system. If campaign managers will look at the number if merits received by applicants as a condition of acceptance or increased payment, they can discover the source of the merits if it is important to them or their clients.

As per the excellent now locked thread where discussion about merits in WO was initiated, various suggestions were put forward. If theymos took steps to either cap/limit merits based on various criteria then on specific threads then that might make a lot of members unhappy because the poll in that thread resulted in 97 votes of which 59 were against disabling merits in WO and only 38 were in favour.

The numbers of merits involved in WO are quite staggering. Now that some campaign managers are looking at the number of merits received by prospective participants to set a pay rate for particular campaigns, this is something they might possibly overlook.

That is something completely different, and the campaign managers together with the clients they represent have the right to determine their own rules. I am not sure if LoyceV's or some other tools can be used to easily display where the members have received their merits. That way, if managers don't want to count WO merits, they know how to do it. It's similar to how they get to decide the boards where the posts won't count for the weekly quota.

I just don't feel like the forum and the moderators should intervene and make their own subjective changes by saying we don't like you getting merits in the WO thread so we will now cancel them or perform any other changes. If the WO thread, its posts, and merit sharing are problems, just lock it. But they haven't done that.   

[nutildah]

I made this network chart about 3 years ago and didn't updated it anymore. I just updated it now with today's data (using LoyceV website data)



https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/5379872

This is great. Thanks for doing this. I'm guessing the unconnected dots means those accounts received merits from accounts that never received merits in the WO...

I don't mean to be bothersome but is there any chance to make this type of chart for merit sent in the WO thread (as opposed to received)? If its too much work, which is understandable, its no problem.

I would like to take this opportunity to leave the link to the file I created, which lists the merits sent and received. It does not detail the origin, just the list of who gave and who received, merits in the WO.
File: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AuWqcTrLK_TciKVm8Z0GKtmpF1rBpQ?e=qyx6gP

This is a pretty clear demonstration of what a madman El_Duderino is 

For some reason JJG sending merits to spammers for shitposts bothers me more, but to be fair the spammers also suck up to the Dude almost as frequently. Pretty easy to see why... They can't help themselves.. the thought of juicy, bountiful merits overcomes their sensibilities.