Lol,i actually read the post were OGnansty was all in your face about staying away from the new topic button for a while,but I'm sure that didn't/hasnt stopped you from starting new threads,as you still very much do..

While a lower profile may not attract a lot of attention,i sure would prefer to be a Legendary member,with all the attention in the world,i actually wouldn't mind

Merits earned are actually better than those replenished every 30days, as they actually do count on one's merit score, so earning merits as well as looking for meritable posts is a wonderful combination...

That being said Vod put together a masterclass on this thread..
Inspiration mate!!!

Just stumbling on this today...I've been living life outside this forum for a while. I too am stunned by the results (accept for Theymos topping the list). I'm more impressed by the work you've done here and how applicable it is for everyone - well done!

The greatest takeaway for me is realizing that you, Vod, have given me the most merit of anyone on this forum. And I want you to know that the honor you feel in supporting the brilliance of my posts is shared by me, I'm honored to have your endorsement over and over again.  

One thought for a future iteration, if you're interested in such things, people who were granted "merit source" status by Theymos have an inflated amount of merit. Much of the merit they've received hasn't come from their work to contribute to the forum with posts but rather through the administrative process. Have you accounted for that in your analysis? If not s there anyway to normalize your data for people who are assigned by Theymos to serve in this merit source role?

Good luck to you, thanks.

HabBear has no idea what he’s talking about. As usual. Best to ignore what he says.

- Well I can parse all new posts (planned) and I can apply some sort of calculation to them.

(I can't find that thread/website that parsed all a user's posts and displayed a quality score...)

- All I can do is display trust as it is added or removed - I don't know how to track abuse.

:/

That is not true, and does not make any sense.

Maliciously spreading misinformation is another example, but how would you judge such things?

I have noticed in the past week or so, that on BPIP my merit rank has been around 34 and currently shows that I have received 471 merits; however, in reality, currently, I have received only 454 merits, which puts my current actual placement at a rank of 40.

Accordingly, it seems that my recognition score has gotten skewed upwards too, seemingly based on the mistaken merit rank.  
A few weeks ago, my recognition score used to be around 97 or 98 (fluctuating a bit, of course), but currently is at 94, which seems to be partially higher based on the mistaken merit rank...  My activity rank went up a bit, too, so sometimes it can be difficult to know exactly the reasons for the recognition score changing (upwards in this example).

Hello Vod,

as others already said, there are some bugs with the merits.

I saw the the homepage, https://bpip.org/, shows a different list of the most merited than the Top Merited Users, all time

Also, the manual update of the profiles is not working since yesterday ( at least ... I found about it yesterday).
Edit > Tested it today - 28.11 and is working fine
The personal merit stats are ok too.

Sorry everyone,

I tend to make changes on live code.

Sometimes, my changes interrupt valid live data and it takes a while for that data to resync itself.

Right now I am making major changes to prepare for trust tracking.  It's pretty well done, and I am just waiting to clear up the backlog of current trust records before I can start tracking the actual changes.