[TOP-200] The most generous users giving merits

[LoyceV]

I'm flabbergasted as to how you're aware of that fact (which I wasn't even aware of).  How does one go about looking up that fact?

Theymos doesn't "airdrop" sMerit, he resets your amount to the maximum whenever it's increased or decreased. In case it isn't obvious: ideally, you spend about 33 sMerit each day, so they're replenished at the same rate 30 days later. You'll get there, but it feels like a burden to see it up to 200 again right after you thought you were almost done

my guess is that you haven't used up all of your personal sMerits

I'm at 918 nowadays, I usually have some source sMerit left, so I don't often get to use "my own".

I'm not sure I'll be able to distribute 1000 merits/month

This helps:

It's best if sources try to exhaust their source allocations, even if it means giving posts higher amounts than is typical. If you have 150 source merit and you only see 3 merit-worthy posts in a month, then I'd rather you over-give each of them 50 merit than let the merit expire. That way there are more people capable of sending merit, and the "merit economy" is less top-down.

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[LFC_Bitcoin]

I think I have a mid range monthly allowance from theymos (judging by convos I’ve had with other merit sources).
I’m always in the top 10-15 monthly table for generosity (sending merit). Some sources must be really cheap at handing out merit to other posters though because looking through the most recent monthly tables there are some sources that I 100% know have a higher allowance than me but are well below me in generosity. Hmmmmm
 !!!!!

[JayJuanGee]

@fillippone
i dont talk about you, you are a merits-crazy, not for ego but because u are a nerd like me

I see in general that some members of the community in the international sections bully, for no reason whatsoever, without thinking and without reading


I only think about distributing the merits I have
if I have 2 or 200 it doesn't change, it just changes the amount of work for me

There is a certain amount of truth in what you are saying babo, because I have been expanding my involvement across the forum ever since about early January 2018 in order to attempt to come across forum members that I had not previously known and even to try to get acquainted with newbie members.  

I surely have always had an intention to NOT be sending smerits to forum members who seem to be shills, trolls or otherwise using the forum for disingenuous purposes - while at the same time, trying to error on the side of sending an smerit (or more) if there seems to be some kind of value, contribution or thought that is contained in the post whether or not I agree with the content of the post or even whether or not I like the forum member overall.... so surely, the longer that any of us serves in smerit source positions we are likely going to be revising our own ways of thinking about doing the tasks of sending smerits, and sometimes some of the source members are going to get overwhelmed by the task of having a decently "large" bank of source smerits to send every 30 days or fail /refuse to send smerits that come to them (maybe not even any fault of their own in terms of being able to keep up, but such smerit source member does not necessarily want to be involved in such kinds of endeavors of figuring out which members or posts are "deserving" of an smerit (or more) from the discretionary standpoint of the smerit source member).

So yeah, for example if your smerit source amount doubles, then theoretically it could create double the work, or maybe there might be some kind of compromise approach that the source member might attempt to make to lower the barrier to the kinds of post/members to send smerits or perhaps just double the quantity of smerits that such smerit source member sends per post.  

To date, theymos has been pretty good about completely leaving these kinds of considerations up to the smerit source members to figure out what kind of systems that they are going to employ to distribute their source smerits, and he seems to have also been pretty willing to giving oil to squeaky wheels - and surely, I have no problem with that because there if the forum member has not really shown any kind of abusive personality disorder - even if each of us might not exactly agree with what appears to be the smerit sending thresholds of such forum members, when they are squeaking about wanting more smerits to distribute they are at least proclaiming (through such squeakenings hahahahahha) that they are more than willing to send out way more smerits than their then current smerit allocation is allowing them to be able to accomplish.

Probably also theymos has ways of being able to monitor whether some smerit source members are sending out their smerits in a fairly soon manner after replenishing their source merits or if they are having source smerits decaying after 30 days for lack of use or that it takes some members in the ballpark of close to 30 days to spend from their replenished smerit source supply.

On a personal level, I do try to spend my source merit replenishments in a fairly prompt timeframe from when they are replenished, but believe it or not, I also do have a life outside of the forum, so sometimes it might take me a week or so to get my source smerits down to zero.. and so if my smerit source balance lingers for a longer period of time with a higher balance, I do tend to want to attempt to bring it down to zero, and sure, maybe I am pressured into considering if I need to alter my method of sending out smerits.. which also could be felt as a kind of work to figure out a system that is comfortable for me and my availability to read and perhaps even to reflect upon the content of the posts of other forum members.

Believe it or not, we are around 3.5 years of this smerit system, so I guess that some success can be considered in terms that the recent changes that theymos chose to make to the smerit system were in the ballpark of incrementalistic increases in the already existing system and the smerit source base rather than going down the path of some kind of a total revision.. A sign of success?  the whole smerit system seems to be kind of working.. at least, from my vantage point of what the smerit/merit system is (and attempts to incentivize) and the recent changes that theymos chose to make to such system.

[icopress]

[...]

Man, do you know why I adore you? I adore you for your walls of text, because bumping into your messages, I have to close all extraneous tabs to focus on this reading. But no matter how you or I feel, I think in your reasoning, there is something that I think you missed. Firstly, in order not to be depressed, I think you should not treat this business as a job, then for you it will not be a burden. And as I said earlier, you yourself must calculate your strength, even if you want to squeeze into a 30-day period (if you don't have time, just increase the spread of merit per post).

I confess, looking at the leaderboards you mentioned, I can only say that I was not impressed by the amount of merit they sent, but in a good sense of the word, I envy these guys, because I understand how much free time it takes to read thousands of posts. Although I agree with you regarding a group of people who use the forum space incorrectly or unethically, for by meriting the posts of trolls, shillas, and other people of this category, you are kind of encouraging them to continue this behavior. But for me the main ... thing is that I would feel that there is a living person on the other side, only then can I appreciate the message.

[JayJuanGee]

[...]

Man, do you know why I adore you? I adore you for your walls of text, because bumping into your messages, I have to close all extraneous tabs to focus on this reading. But no matter how you or I feel, I think in your reasoning, there is something that I think you missed. Firstly, in order not to be depressed, I think you should not treat this business as a job, then for you it will not be a burden. And as I said earlier, you yourself must calculate your strength, even if you want to squeeze into a 30-day period (if you don't have time, just increase the spread of merit per post).

I confess, looking at the leaderboards you mentioned, I can only say that I was not impressed by the amount of merit they sent, but in a good sense of the word, I envy these guys, because I understand how much free time it takes to read thousands of posts. Although I agree with you regarding a group of people who use the forum space incorrectly or unethically, for by meriting the posts of trolls, shillas, and other people of this category, you are kind of encouraging them to continue this behavior. But for me the main ... thing is that I would feel that there is a living person on the other side, only then can I appreciate the message.

Just to be clear, for the most part, I personally have not been depressed by the various feelings of burden that might come (from time to time) of sending out smerits, but you can imagine a system that has been in place for about 3.5 years is not going to always have persons who might not go through moods that might either relate to forum activity or activity outside of the forum (if such a thing actually exists?).

Also, it may be worth it for me to reiterate that there can be variations of practices in regards to how much some smerit source members are ready, willing or able to venture outside of their usual stomping grounds in terms of if they want to spread smerits wider and wider... and also whether mistakes might sometimes happen in terms of giving out smerits to forum members who might neither be genuine or even a real person.. Sometimes it can be difficult to measure those kinds of matters, and there does not even seem to be any kind of rule that smerit source members should attempt to make meaningful attempts to figure out if their smerits are being sent to shills, trolls, disingenuine persons or even non-persons, even if some smerit source members might determine that they do want to send merits to those kinds of members who they suspect of falling into such categories.

I mentioned that on a personal level I do attempt to balance on the side of sending smerits for a post that might be on the margins rather than holding back, but sure if I am very tired on one day, I might even choose not to attempt to read any forum posts because I might feel that I might not have enough attention span to actually be able to even meet my own discretionary standards in regards to determining if a post (or members) reaches a threshold for me to send an smerit to a post that the member had made.

[Quickseller]

I'm flabbergasted as to how you're aware of that fact (which I wasn't even aware of).  How does one go about looking up that fact?

Theymos doesn't "airdrop" sMerit, he resets your amount to the maximum whenever it's increased or decreased. In case it isn't obvious: ideally, you spend about 33 sMerit each day, so they're replenished at the same rate 30 days later. You'll get there, but it feels like a burden to see it up to 200 again right after you thought you were almost done

I'm not sure I'll be able to distribute 1000 merits/month

would personally prefer that source sMerit allocation is distributed every month instead of 30 days after you spend it. I think this would be especially beneficial for those sources that spend a decent amount of the month without any source sMerit. If I run out of source and personal sMerit, I am not going to necessarily know when some of my source sMerit is replenished without looking, so I may end up sitting on source sMerit for a number of days, even if I see posts I want to merit.

The above means that source merit is effectively replenished less frequently than once every 30 days because source sMerit will not necessarily get spent the day it is replenished. Different sources could have their source sMerit replenished on different days, and the amount of source sMerit available to the merit source could be changed to their monthly allocation on whatever day of the month. That way sources who have run out of sMerit to give out will know they have sMerit to give on whatever day their allocation is replenished.

[icopress]

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You are right ... from my own experience I can say that I rarely go beyond my usual sections, I would even say that in this respect I am very limited, since I mainly visit only Collectibles, Meta, Reputation, Bitcoin Dev/Discussion/Legal and Gambling sections, (therefore, while I do not imagine myself as a good merit source). Although, I was going to answer you to your reasoning about errors, but I interrupted myself ... since everyone has their own set of criteria for evaluating a particular message, which is formed for different reasons, for this it makes no sense to talk about it. At least until the person involved in the discussion feels the burden of being a source on himself.

[Coin-1]

These are the monthly statistics for July 2021 below.

The most generous users giving merits (July 2021)

	User name	Sent merits	Received merits	Generosity
1)	fillippone	1340 (in 384 txns to 137 users)	428 (in 192 txns from 74 users)	1126 (max 1126)
2)	Ratimov	1282 (in 793 txns to 373 users)	345 (in 206 txns from 102 users)	1109 (max 1110)
3)	hugeblack	1131 (in 271 txns to 150 users)	78 (in 39 txns from 27 users)	1092 (max 1092)
4)	Welsh	1104 (in 193 txns to 104 users)	114 (in 63 txns from 37 users)	1047 (max 1049)
5)	ETFbitcoin	1116 (in 589 txns to 233 users)	155 (in 56 txns from 40 users)	1038 (max 1039)
6)	The Pharmacist	930 (in 312 txns to 125 users)	184 (in 99 txns from 55 users)	838 (max 838)
7)	xandry	842 (in 338 txns to 209 users)	33 (in 24 txns from 11 users)	825 (max 825)
8)	El duderino_	930 (in 213 txns to 102 users)	248 (in 123 txns from 48 users)	806 (max 806)
9)	JayJuanGee	801 (in 675 txns to 208 users)	197 (in 117 txns from 42 users)	702 (max 703)
10)	LoyceV	825 (in 180 txns to 119 users)	391 (in 160 txns from 68 users)	629 (max 631)
11)	EFS	520 (in 128 txns to 64 users)	12 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	514 (max 514)
12)	klarki	507 (in 199 txns to 104 users)	19 (in 15 txns from 11 users)	497 (max 498)
13)	vapourminer	480 (in 313 txns to 188 users)	34 (in 23 txns from 14 users)	463 (max 463)
14)	DdmrDdmr	498 (in 265 txns to 124 users)	296 (in 156 txns from 57 users)	350 (max 350)
15)	o_e_l_e_o	476 (in 126 txns to 92 users)	305 (in 138 txns from 58 users)	323 (max 324)
16)	dkbit98	388 (in 126 txns to 76 users)	165 (in 74 txns from 33 users)	305 (max 307)
17)	nutildah	384 (in 62 txns to 46 users)	160 (in 83 txns from 51 users)	304 (max 305)
18)	paxmao	350 (in 228 txns to 127 users)	103 (in 58 txns from 29 users)	298 (max 313)
19)	pooya87	382 (in 167 txns to 91 users)	169 (in 104 txns from 41 users)	297 (max 299)
20)	LFC_Bitcoin	382 (in 198 txns to 95 users)	172 (in 96 txns from 46 users)	296 (max 296)
21)	bitmover	327 (in 187 txns to 78 users)	79 (in 57 txns from 34 users)	287 (max 287)
22)	1miau	296 (in 148 txns to 61 users)	53 (in 42 txns from 19 users)	269 (max 269)
23)	Julien_Olynpic	319 (in 124 txns to 47 users)	135 (in 67 txns from 24 users)	251 (max 253)
24)	NotATether	334 (in 134 txns to 97 users)	224 (in 108 txns from 43 users)	222 (max 224)
25)	OgNasty	249 (in 71 txns to 63 users)	72 (in 35 txns from 27 users)	213 (max 214)
26)	Pmalek	304 (in 212 txns to 113 users)	188 (in 87 txns from 51 users)	210 (max 210)
27)	Vispilio	203 (in 59 txns to 36 users)	3 (in 3 txns from 3 users)	201 (max 201)
28)	NeuroticFish	256 (in 104 txns to 67 users)	110 (in 60 txns from 26 users)	201 (max 201)
29)	Halab	210 (in 74 txns to 58 users)	48 (in 22 txns from 15 users)	186 (max 186)
30)	mole0815	171 (in 161 txns to 84 users)	33 (in 29 txns from 21 users)	154 (max 155)
31)	Vlad2Vlad	153 (in 15 txns to 6 users)	4 (in 1 txn)	151 (max 151)
32)	CryptopreneurBrainboss	209 (in 147 txns to 74 users)	146 (in 74 txns from 41 users)	136 (max 136)
33)	Coolcryptovator	131 (in 54 txns to 44 users)	43 (in 30 txns from 22 users)	109 (max 109)
34)	BlackHatCoiner	214 (in 130 txns to 70 users)	215 (in 109 txns from 43 users)	106 (max 106)
35)	HCP	140 (in 47 txns to 36 users)	70 (in 40 txns from 19 users)	105 (max 113)
36)	shahzadafzal	123 (in 83 txns to 36 users)	54 (in 30 txns from 17 users)	96 (max 96)
37)	Husna QA	96 (in 95 txns to 55 users)	24 (in 15 txns from 8 users)	84 (max 84)
38)	krogothmanhattan	83 (in 11 txns to 10 users)	4 (in 4 txns from 4 users)	81 (max 81)
39)	hosseinimr93	126 (in 126 txns to 67 users)	110 (in 54 txns from 36 users)	71 (max 71)
40)	mikeywith	106 (in 55 txns to 23 users)	81 (in 26 txns from 14 users)	65 (max 66)
41)	Quickseller	69 (in 32 txns to 30 users)	8 (in 6 txns from 5 users)	65 (max 65)
42)	Buchi-88	72 (in 69 txns to 28 users)	20 (in 20 txns from 6 users)	62 (max 62)
43)	suchmoon	95 (in 48 txns to 36 users)	75 (in 41 txns from 27 users)	57 (max 59)
44)	OmegaStarScream	80 (in 27 txns to 25 users)	47 (in 22 txns from 14 users)	56 (max 56)
45)	amishmanish	85 (in 40 txns to 36 users)	59 (in 26 txns from 14 users)	55 (max 59)
46)	Royse777	62 (in 14 txns to 13 users)	15 (in 7 txns from 7 users)	54 (max 54)
47)	Hueristic	98 (in 98 txns to 47 users)	87 (in 46 txns from 16 users)	54 (max 54)
48)	Bitcoin SV	50 (in 1 txn)	0	50 (max 50)
49)	jimlite	50 (in 1 txn)	0	50 (max 50)
50)	tyz	54 (in 31 txns to 14 users)	12 (in 11 txns from 10 users)	48 (max 48)
51)	franky1	75 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	57 (in 30 txns from 16 users)	46 (max 56)
52)	Foxpup	89 (in 46 txns to 17 users)	89 (in 18 txns from 15 users)	44 (max 44)
53)	TryNinja	80 (in 58 txns to 27 users)	71 (in 38 txns from 24 users)	44 (max 51)
54)	babo	81 (in 56 txns to 24 users)	79 (in 37 txns from 10 users)	41 (max 42)
55)	mprep	45 (in 10 txns to 8 users)	8 (in 5 txns from 5 users)	41 (max 41)
56)	fr4nkthetank	41 (in 1 txn)	2 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	40 (max 40)
57)	cabalism13	41 (in 26 txns to 26 users)	1	40 (max 40)
58)	Daniel91	54 (in 36 txns to 20 users)	34 (in 21 txns from 10 users)	37 (max 37)
59)	Jet Cash	59 (in 4 txns to 4 users)	47 (in 22 txns from 17 users)	35 (max 53)
60)	Sweetbtc	30 (in 3 txns to 3 users)	0	30 (max 30)
61)	Qunenin	30 (in 3 txns to 3 users)	0	30 (max 30)
62)	SyGambler	40 (in 4 txns to 4 users)	21 (in 5 txns from 4 users)	29 (max 36)
63)	marcus_of_augustus	70 (in 3 txns to 3 users)	82 (in 42 txns from 17 users)	29 (max 30)
64)	malevolent	35 (in 11 txns to 10 users)	14 (in 6 txns from 4 users)	28 (max 28)
65)	dbc23	32 (in 13 txns to 9 users)	13 (in 7 txns from 5 users)	25 (max 26)
66)	Globb0	30 (in 3 txns to 3 users)	9 (in 5 txns from 4 users)	25 (max 25)
67)	BTCLiz	25 (in 20 txns to 16 users)	6 (in 6 txns from 4 users)	22 (max 22)
68)	redhack	21 (in 6 txns to 6 users)	0	21 (max 21)
69)	DogecoinMachine	20 (in 3 txns to 2 users)	1	19 (max 19)
70)	DarkStar_	28 (in 7 txns to 7 users)	19 (in 14 txns from 14 users)	18 (max 19)
71)	LeGaulois	34 (in 34 txns to 28 users)	31 (in 13 txns from 8 users)	18 (max 18)
72)	yahoo62278	27 (in 7 txns to 5 users)	17 (in 7 txns from 7 users)	18 (max 21)
73)	AverageGlabella	22 (in 9 txns to 8 users)	9 (in 5 txns from 5 users)	17 (max 17)
74)	Mitchell	18 (in 8 txns to 4 users)	2 (in 1 txn)	17 (max 17)
75)	AlcoHoDL	25 (in 21 txns to 9 users)	20 (in 16 txns from 8 users)	15 (max 15)
76)	Beparanf	16 (in 12 txns to 8 users)	3 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	14 (max 14)
77)	jokers10	37 (in 12 txns to 7 users)	48 (in 22 txns from 11 users)	13 (max 21)
78)	BrewMaster	22 (in 19 txns to 16 users)	20 (in 12 txns from 8 users)	12 (max 12)
79)	FP91G	17 (in 13 txns to 5 users)	12 (in 10 txns from 6 users)	11 (max 11)
80)	Macadonian	14 (in 4 txns to 3 users)	5 (in 3 txns from 3 users)	11 (max 12)
81)	Bitinity	14 (in 11 txns to 7 users)	6 (in 6 txns from 5 users)	11 (max 11)
82)	posternat	10 (in 1 txn)	0	10 (max 10)
83)	Pierre 2	19 (in 15 txns to 7 users)	17 (in 12 txns from 9 users)	10 (max 11)
84)	D. Lerk	10 (in 1 txn)	0	10 (max 10)
85)	Agrawas	10 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	0	10 (max 10)
86)	yurez	16 (in 16 txns to 11 users)	12 (in 10 txns from 6 users)	10 (max 11)
87)	Hobo66	10 (in 1 txn)	0	10 (max 10)
88)	Captain-Cryptory	32 (in 19 txns to 14 users)	43 (in 23 txns from 10 users)	10 (max 17)
89)	F2b	11 (in 11 txns to 9 users)	1	10 (max 10)
90)	New.in.trading	9 (in 1 txn)	0	9 (max 9)
91)	batesresearch	10 (in 1 txn)	1	9 (max 10)
92)	tokeweed	9 (in 7 txns to 4 users)	0	9 (max 9)
93)	GazetaBitcoin	36 (in 3 txns to 2 users)	55 (in 4 txns from 4 users)	8 (max 10)
94)	Obito	12 (in 6 txns to 6 users)	7 (in 4 txns from 3 users)	8 (max 8)
95)	tvplus006	17 (in 13 txns to 11 users)	17 (in 7 txns from 5 users)	8 (max 8)
96)	Silberman	31 (in 31 txns to 13 users)	45 (in 32 txns from 12 users)	8 (max 8)
97)	alexrossi	31 (in 10 txns to 8 users)	46 (in 21 txns from 7 users)	8 (max 8)
98)	bitbollo	30 (in 19 txns to 13 users)	44 (in 11 txns from 7 users)	8 (max 9)
99)	revelacaogr	10 (in 4 txns to 1 user)	3 (in 1 txn)	8 (max 8)
100)	mhanbostanci	15 (in 13 txns to 9 users)	14 (in 6 txns from 4 users)	8 (max 8)
101)	TimeTeller	9 (in 9 txns to 9 users)	2 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	8 (max 8)
102)	famososMuertos	31 (in 30 txns to 23 users)	48 (in 30 txns from 11 users)	7 (max 9)
103)	GrosWesh	7 (in 7 txns to 6 users)	0	7 (max 7)
104)	iv4n	9 (in 8 txns to 7 users)	4 (in 4 txns from 3 users)	7 (max 7)
105)	Paolo.Demidov	28 (in 16 txns to 5 users)	42 (in 24 txns from 8 users)	7 (max 10)
106)	xhomerx10	50 (in 40 txns to 25 users)	86 (in 38 txns from 15 users)	7 (max 8)
107)	Mr. Big	7 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	0	7 (max 7)
108)	vv181	19 (in 18 txns to 14 users)	24 (in 20 txns from 12 users)	7 (max 7)
109)	dbshck	8 (in 1 txn)	1	7 (max 7)
110)	s0nix	6 (in 5 txns to 3 users)	0	6 (max 6)
111)	Disruptivas	18 (in 17 txns to 8 users)	24 (in 22 txns from 10 users)	6 (max 12)
112)	Richy_T	13 (in 13 txns to 10 users)	14 (in 13 txns from 8 users)	6 (max 6)
113)	GamblingSiteFinder	6 (in 5 txns to 5 users)	0	6 (max 6)
114)	MoparMiningLLC	26 (in 20 txns to 15 users)	39 (in 14 txns from 13 users)	6 (max 7)
115)	MinoRaiola	21 (in 20 txns to 13 users)	29 (in 21 txns from 7 users)	6 (max 6)
116)	Becassine	10 (in 6 txns to 4 users)	7 (in 3 txns from 2 users)	6 (max 6)
117)	sirazimuth	17 (in 16 txns to 9 users)	22 (in 18 txns from 11 users)	6 (max 6)
118)	qwk	20 (in 13 txns to 9 users)	27 (in 16 txns from 6 users)	6 (max 19)
119)	BobLawblaw	12 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	11 (in 6 txns from 6 users)	6 (max 12)
120)	Digital_Lord	5 (in 2 txns to 1 user)	0	5 (max 5)
121)	Dimasin	6 (in 1 txn)	2 (in 1 txn)	5 (max 5)
122)	bitampcom	5 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	0	5 (max 5)
123)	Oneandpure	5 (in 2 txns to 1 user)	0	5 (max 5)
124)	tazmantasik	5 (in 2 txns to 1 user)	0	5 (max 5)
125)	astraleureka	5 (in 1 txn)	0	5 (max 5)
126)	Coyster	31 (in 28 txns to 18 users)	51 (in 24 txns from 12 users)	5 (max 11)
127)	realdantreccia	10 (in 3 txns to 2 users)	10 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	5 (max 8)
128)	UserU	11 (in 10 txns to 9 users)	11 (in 11 txns from 10 users)	5 (max 5)
129)	agustina2	5 (in 5 txns to 4 users)	0	5 (max 5)
130)	Truthchanter	5 (in 1 txn)	0	5 (max 5)
131)	Trading	5 (in 1 txn)	0	5 (max 5)
132)	ekiller	7 (in 7 txns to 7 users)	3 (in 3 txns from 3 users)	5 (max 6)
133)	hanspeter77	6 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	1	5 (max 5)
134)	teeGUMES	7 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	4 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	5 (max 5)
135)	bct_ail	12 (in 10 txns to 9 users)	13 (in 11 txns from 9 users)	5 (max 5)
136)	Heisenberg_Hunter	7 (in 5 txns to 5 users)	3 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	5 (max 5)
137)	Goran_	18 (in 8 txns to 7 users)	25 (in 15 txns from 6 users)	5 (max 6)
138)	devollito	5 (in 1 txn)	0	5 (max 5)
139)	EdenHazard	5 (in 1 txn)	0	5 (max 5)
140)	Nomad88	5 (in 1 txn)	0	5 (max 5)
141)	Dabs	24 (in 12 txns to 10 users)	37 (in 24 txns from 9 users)	5 (max 6)
142)	Rollbit Razer	5 (in 1 txn)	1	4 (max 4)
143)	pealr12	4 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	0	4 (max 4)
144)	jaberwock	6 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	3 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	4 (max 5)
145)	cryptomaniac_xxx	7 (in 5 txns to 4 users)	6 (in 3 txns from 3 users)	4 (max 4)
146)	Swordsoffreedom	4 (in 4 txns to 3 users)	0	4 (max 4)
147)	Review Master	5 (in 5 txns to 4 users)	2 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	4 (max 4)
148)	Indymoney	4 (in 2 txns to 1 user)	0	4 (max 4)
149)	pakhitheboss	6 (in 4 txns to 4 users)	4 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	4 (max 5)
150)	devans	5 (in 1 txn)	1	4 (max 4)
151)	ivan1975	4 (in 3 txns to 3 users)	0	4 (max 4)
152)	tweetious	5 (in 5 txns to 5 users)	1	4 (max 4)
153)	mindrust	8 (in 5 txns to 5 users)	7 (in 5 txns from 5 users)	4 (max 4)
154)	Similificator	5 (in 4 txns to 4 users)	1	4 (max 5)
155)	DrBeer	14 (in 8 txns to 7 users)	19 (in 9 txns from 6 users)	4 (max 4)
156)	nullCoiner	9 (in 7 txns to 7 users)	10 (in 10 txns from 7 users)	4 (max 4)
157)	xzone	18 (in 17 txns to 12 users)	27 (in 13 txns from 5 users)	4 (max 4)
158)	ralle14	11 (in 5 txns to 4 users)	14 (in 13 txns from 7 users)	4 (max 6)
159)	checkmatesir	3 (in 1 txn)	0	3 (max 3)
160)	wallet4bitcoin	3 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	0	3 (max 3)
161)	KaliLinux	4 (in 3 txns to 3 users)	2 (in 1 txn)	3 (max 3)
162)	oryhp	4 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	1	3 (max 4)
163)	BTC_Mouse	3 (in 1 txn)	0	3 (max 3)
164)	Yogee	7 (in 7 txns to 7 users)	7 (in 5 txns from 3 users)	3 (max 3)
165)	r34tr783tr78	3 (in 1 txn)	0	3 (max 3)
166)	blue Snow	9 (in 9 txns to 8 users)	12 (in 11 txns from 8 users)	3 (max 4)
167)	bullrun2020bro	43 (in 32 txns to 12 users)	79 (in 49 txns from 18 users)	3 (max 4)
168)	baro77	4 (in 3 txns to 3 users)	1	3 (max 3)
169)	Blockchayne	3 (in 1 txn)	0	3 (max 3)
170)	panjay	3 (in 3 txns to 2 users)	0	3 (max 3)
171)	Gozie51	10 (in 6 txns to 5 users)	13 (in 9 txns from 8 users)	3 (max 4)
172)	Bohdan820	5 (in 3 txns to 3 users)	4 (in 1 txn)	3 (max 3)
173)	haloxon	4 (in 4 txns to 4 users)	1	3 (max 3)
174)	creep_o	9 (in 9 txns to 6 users)	12 (in 5 txns from 2 users)	3 (max 3)
175)	davis196	5 (in 5 txns to 4 users)	4 (in 3 txns from 1 user)	3 (max 3)
176)	BADecker	5 (in 1 txn)	3 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	3 (max 4)
177)	YuginKadoya	4 (in 3 txns to 2 users)	2 (in 1 txn)	3 (max 3)
178)	foroplus	8 (in 5 txns to 4 users)	10 (in 9 txns from 5 users)	3 (max 3)
179)	Abdussamad	10 (in 7 txns to 5 users)	14 (in 9 txns from 7 users)	3 (max 4)
180)	LTU_btc	4 (in 4 txns to 4 users)	2 (in 2 txns from 2 users)	3 (max 3)
181)	ChiBitCTy	7 (in 7 txns to 7 users)	7 (in 4 txns from 4 users)	3 (max 3)
182)	imhoneer	12 (in 12 txns to 6 users)	18 (in 9 txns from 6 users)	3 (max 3)
183)	onurgozupek	3 (in 1 txn)	0	3 (max 3)
184)	Timelord2067	13 (in 13 txns to 12 users)	20 (in 11 txns from 8 users)	3 (max 3)
185)	alegotardo	14 (in 13 txns to 6 users)	22 (in 18 txns from 8 users)	3 (max 4)
186)	impulse709	2 (in 1 txn)	0	2 (max 2)
187)	Felimon	2 (in 1 txn)	0	2 (max 2)
188)	notasimp	4 (in 4 txns to 3 users)	3 (in 1 txn)	2 (max 2)
189)	EYC_ONE	5 (in 4 txns to 3 users)	6 (in 4 txns from 4 users)	2 (max 2)
190)	Bizoran	2 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	0	2 (max 2)
191)	curious droid	5 (in 5 txns to 5 users)	6 (in 4 txns from 2 users)	2 (max 5)
192)	UKprod	6 (in 4 txns to 4 users)	8 (in 5 txns from 5 users)	2 (max 2)
193)	dezoel	3 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	1	2 (max 2)
194)	fortune1002	2 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	0	2 (max 2)
195)	TangentC	2 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	0	2 (max 2)
196)	Luqman	2 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	0	2 (max 2)
197)	Ancienot	2 (in 1 txn)	0	2 (max 2)
198)	MiaAndTheMarbles	2 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	0	2 (max 2)
199)	Frank AlpenCoin	2 (in 2 txns to 2 users)	0	2 (max 2)
200)	Altryist	12 (in 11 txns to 8 users)	19 (in 12 txns from 8 users)	2 (max 3)

In July 2021 total sent 26411 merits (in 13235 txns to 2037 users):

• 3% to Newbies: 810 merits (to 517 users)
• 4% to Jr. Members: 1068 merits (to 296 users)
• 9% to Members: 2479 merits (to 306 users)
• 8% to Full Members: 2010 merits (to 216 users)
• 11% to Sr. Members: 2808 merits (to 246 users)
• 15% to Hero Members: 4044 merits (to 246 users)
• 50% to Legendaries: 13192 merits (to 423 users)

Total user count on August 1, 2021:

• 2884 Legendaries (1536 of them sent merits)
• 3853 Hero Members (1617 of them sent merits)
• 9145 Sr. Members (3078 of them sent merits)
• 18504 Full Members (5625 of them sent merits)
• 31696 Members (9142 of them sent merits)
• 20854 Jr. Members (2635 of them sent merits)
• about two millions newbies

[Coin-1]

Monthly update.

During the entire existence of the merit system, 40,181 users sent 948,406 merits in 514,199 transactions.

I also posted stats for July 2021. Wow! I see 4-digit generosity indices on the list! fillippone is the leader of this TOP-200. Ratimov is rated second. hugeblack took third position.

Congratulations on the new ATH!

Perhaps my detection algorithm will soon spot all of them.

Assuming the new merit sources are enthusiastic about their new positions and hand out tons of merits, you should have no problem.  I'd be very interested to see who the new sources are.

My detection algorithm has already spotted 11 new merit sources:
1. pooya87
2. hosseinimr93
3. BlackHatCoiner
4. shahzadafzal
5. TryNinja who is active on the Portuguese local board
6. NeuroticFish who is active on the Romanian local board
7. Julien_Olynpic who is active on the Russian local board
8. Pmalek who is active on the Croatian local board
9. dkbit98 who is also active on the Croatian local board
10. mikeywith who is active on the Arabic local board
11. NotATether who is also active on the Arabic local board

So I have updated the full list of detected merit sources.

3 new merit sources have not yet been detected. Perhaps they were all Legendaries on the day the merit system was introduced, so their generosity threshold exceeds 200 sMerits. I will add their usernames to the appropriate list if my algorithm spots them in the future.

As you guys are talking about new merit sources, I am proud to inform you that I am one of them. I am really happy that theymos trusted me and appointed me as a new merit source. I hope I deserve it.
In the next month, you will probably see my username in the top positions (maybe, the top 50).

Yes, your current generosity index is 53. You were a Sr. Member on January 24, 2018, so my algorithm pretty quickly identified you as a new merit source.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I'm flabbergasted as to how you're aware of that fact (which I wasn't even aware of).  How does one go about looking up that fact?

Theymos doesn't "airdrop" sMerit, he resets your amount to the maximum whenever it's increased or decreased. In case it isn't obvious: ideally, you spend about 33 sMerit each day, so they're replenished at the same rate 30 days later. You'll get there, but it feels like a burden to see it up to 200 again right after you thought you were almost done

Guess I missed your response last month, as I hadn't checked this thread since.  I used the term "airdropped" because I got 1000 sMerits dumped on me all at once, so I thought it was the most appropriate term.  As it stands right now in the month after that, my sMerits are being refilled gradually again.

These are the monthly statistics for July 2021 below.

Woot!  I'll take that 6th position for July, and gladly.  I thought I might be able to hand out the entire 1000 merits, but I fell a little bit short.  Be that as it may, I'm happy that merit distribution was up for the month overall.  We all need to keep circulating them in order to keep the system alive and well. 

[fillippone]

Wow! I see 4-digit generosity indices on the list! fillippone is the leader of this TOP-200.

Wow, I have been waiting for this update since the MS increase. Glad I managed to top the chart, for once, even settling the ATH. Wow.
I hope I will be able to raise the bar even more, but I think it will not be easily doable, without playing with stashes backlog..

Anyway, seeing so many 4 digits MS makes me think the step was in the right direction, even if I hope these merits will trickle down the merit economy triggering an infinite series of merits!

[Pmalek]

We all need to keep circulating them in order to keep the system alive and well. 

Since I always check if users participate in regular merit distribution before meriting their post, I have considered posting a reminder to those users if their merit-worthy post is in a thread that am replying in. Something along the lines of "merits are not meant to be hoarded but distributed to those who deserve them. If receiving merits makes you happy, then make other forum users happy as well. I don't reward merit-hoarders."

[BITCOIN4X]

~Snip
If receiving merits makes you happy, then make other forum users happy as well. I don't reward merit-hoarders.[/i]"

I hope I'm never one of those you mean though I haven't gotten one from you so far. 

So far, I've only received 649 merit from 90 profile and managed to send 317 sMerit to 111 profile. Right now I only have a few sMerit left and I think it will run out soon when I get a post it deserve to give. Never thought that stockpiling sMerit was good, I wouldn't because it could prevent this system from working as it should. Although in the end the users could ignore the sMerit he had, it wouldn't benefit him at all.

[Pmalek]

I hope I'm never one of those you mean though I haven't gotten one from you so far. 

There is no list or anything, but even if there were, you wouldn't be on it. You send merits regularly depending on how many sMerits you have (obviously), and that's the way it should be. I guess you are just one of those who I have missed. If you believe you have been unfairly overlooked, don't hesitate to write down some of the posts you think deserve (more)merits in the report posts to merit sources thread. Just mention me or quote one of my posts so that I get the notification and can take a look at them. 

[Welsh]

In July 2021 total sent 26411 merits (in 13235 txns to 2037 users):

• 3% to Newbies: 810 merits (to 517 users)
• 4% to Jr. Members: 1068 merits (to 296 users)
• 9% to Members: 2479 merits (to 306 users)
• 8% to Full Members: 2010 merits (to 216 users)
• 11% to Sr. Members: 2808 merits (to 246 users)
• 15% to Hero Members: 4044 merits (to 246 users)
• 50% to Legendaries: 13192 merits (to 423 users)

Although, I'm not one for taking into consideration the rank of the user I'm meriting or at least I try to be conscious about being non bias. I would like to see the distribution a little better than this personally. 50% of the merit circulation going to legendaries makes sense, however I do believe that might be because there's some bias creeping in. I feel like some users are less willing to reward newbies with high amounts, because there's not enough data available to determine whether they would be a contributing user in the long term.

This is probably backed up by the fact that 517 newbies received merit, and only 423 legendaries received merit, however the amount of merits was significantly larger when being sent to legendary accounts. I think it could be argued that generally, legendaries are more likely to be posting better content, but without going through each post, that would likely be hard to accurately predict.

[icopress]

[...] 50% of the merit circulation going to legendaries makes sense, however I do believe that might be because there's some bias creeping in. I feel like some users are less willing to reward newbies with high amounts, because there's not enough data available to determine whether they would be a contributing user in the long term.

I would say that this is a double-edged sword, since ironically adequate beginners who have already figured out the intricacies of the work of the merit system may also feel biased towards themselves if sources and users of higher rank ignore the messages of newcomers believing that "encouraging a newbie post in may end up being wasted merit." Everything will come down to the idea of the expediency of spending time on the forum, it will come down to a thought that will eventually become a repulsive factor. Although by and large it is not important, because the less we talk about it, the better m'system works, (not to mention the fact that there are more significant factors that repel newbies).

[Welsh]

(not to mention the fact that there are more significant factors that repel newbies).

No doubt, I don't think too many newbies receiving merit in the first place would complain about the amount that they received. However, I thought it was an interesting enough observation to comment on. My mind kind of wanders towards the fact users are wary of rewarding too much merit to new users, that might have a small sample size of posts, rather than any other reason.

What is clear about the new allocation of merit is there's a lot more merit circulating about, which is probably better from everyone's perspective. It remains to be seen though, that if the merit sources will be able to regularly spend 4 figure merits each period. I suspect there will be a drop off, due to the excitement for a lack of a better word this time around.

[BITCOIN4X]

There is no list or anything, but even if there were, you wouldn't be on it. You send merits regularly depending on how many sMerits you have (obviously), and that's the way it should be. I guess you are just one of those who I have missed. If you believe you have been unfairly overlooked, don't hesitate to write down some of the posts you think deserve (more)merits in the report posts to merit sources thread. Just mention me or quote one of my posts so that I get the notification and can take a look at them. 

Pmalek, I want to thank you in advance for the offer. But I really don't know which post are worth reporting to the merit source in the thread. Since this merit system exists, I have never felt any merit source unfairness towards me and I don't feel them ignore my post. While it's true that I haven't earned merit from all merit source, I realize that's not a fault as the system is inherently unmoderated and not all post I make are up to the standard they expect. Instead, you can also check out some of the thread I made or my old post if you have some spare time and I would really appreciate it.

For all the merit that I get now, it's purely the assessment of forum users whether they are the merit source or other merit users in my post. Never complained about the system even though I had difficulty on a different level compared to most of the other forum contributors in terms of merit earning.

[KingsDen]

I think it could be argued that generally, legendaries are more likely to be posting better content, but without going through each post, that would likely be hard to accurately predict.

Apart from the fact that legendaries are more likely to be good content posters, let us consider this;
The merit sources who also are more of legendaries have been here for a long time. They have been meeting one another here for many years, apart from the content of the posts, they have falling inlove with the writing patterns of one another, their tones, how humorous, commanding or entertaining they will be. So, meriting such posts becomes a habit, most times without paying attention to the contents.

That is adaptation, a strong human character you cannot undermined. For the newbies or low ranking members to have such a share, they must last longer here and develop a unique writing style lovable by many.

Secondly, the law of reciprocation is indirectly playing out. Merit seems to flow to those who has the ability and enablement to reciprocate. A Merit source can easily give out 50merits to a legendary fellow, knowing too well that it is cyclical, re-genaratable and reciprocal.

Finally, I believe merit sources do not give higher merits to lower ranking members because they believe they may abuse the smerits they will have as a result of the given merits. It's somewhat showing that the merit system works in conjunction with the trust system. If you are trusted, you are trusted with merits too. Knowing too well you may not play the hide and seek game with your alt on merit issuance.

I am of the opinion that lower ranking member(s) who is able to produce a few quality posts, can be trusted and has a decent history of smerit allocation should benefit evenly because they are the future of bitcointalk.
Thank you!

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I am of the opinion that lower ranking member(s) who is able to produce a few quality posts, can be trusted and has a decent history of smerit allocation should benefit evenly because they are the future of bitcointalk.

I assume you mean those lower-ranked members can be trusted with sMerits if they have a history of....something?  Even if that were true, most Newbie/Jr. Member/Member-ranked users haven't gotten a lot of merits to begin with, so they don't have a demonstrable history of using the merit system appropriately.

I'll admit I know which Hero & Legendary members tend to make quality posts, but I try not to merit them often, and if I do give them merits, it's usually a small number.  I do try to save merits for lower-ranked members, and I love it when I can help a deserving individual rank up.

But every merit source is different in their approach to the "job", and I'm not sure how much can be generalized about them as far as who they distribute merits to.  One thing I think is true is that there are a number of them who actively help members rank up.  The problem is--and always has been--that most Newbies and Jr. Members post complete crap.  There are exceptions of course, but if you're wondering why most members of those ranks aren't receiving tons of merits, that's the reason.