Now this is very different from the picture in @arcange's report. I suspect the reason is that @arcange is sorting the bars incorrectly (so that the tallest, "Dead fish" bar is accidentally shown as the "Whale" category).
There are no error in my chart.
It is because unlike SteemitBoard, I only kill inactive red fishes for my charts.
My main goal in this report is to represent "real" distribution among levels and the "inactive level" is just based on arbitrary criteria, even if it might be an interesting one.
By killing only red fishes, I remove only all those fake or never used accounts.
This is a awesome article. I did not know where to get the factor to convert vests to steem power. This would have been extremely useful in a report that I prepared on delegating steem.
I also did not know that an account with no activity in 7 days is classed as a dead fish
The "dead fish" classification is a fairly arbitrary choice of the steemitboard site. From the perspective of the "raw blockchain" all accounts are equally good, of course, and in practice not every account that has been inactive for 7 days should be really considered "dead".
@dantheman, for example, is a pretty active account here in general with nearly 7K followers. However, as it has not posted for a couple of months it is currently classed as a "dead fish" by steemitboard.
Thanks for this analysis, complete with code! I wish more people would do this kind of thing, allows you to see under "the hood" to spin up your own analysis.
I am surprised at the number of "dead" accounts, though. Do these ever get culled for inactivity? Or do they bloat the record forever?
As I mentioned in another comment here, a "dead fish" account is not necessarily "dead", it just has been inactive for 7 days. Most of them are probably totally live, just on a small break at the moment.
Estimating the number of "most probably certainly dead" accounts is a nice exercise, though.
Ah, that makes sense. It would be interesting to note which accounts seem to be on an "extended" hiatus, though. Perhaps arbitrary time cutoffs plotted against their cumulative inactivity.
I assume that Steemit doesn't cull accounts over a certain age with no activity? Was curious about that detail.
Of course, Steemit does not care for who is active and who is not. The plot of cumulative inactivity would be interesting. If no one cares to make one earlier, I'll add it to the next post in the series.
There are no error in my chart.
It is because unlike SteemitBoard, I only kill inactive red fishes for my charts.
My main goal in this report is to represent "real" distribution among levels and the "inactive level" is just based on arbitrary criteria, even if it might be an interesting one.
By killing only red fishes, I remove only all those fake or never used accounts.
I see. That makes sense. Let me update the post a bit.
This is a awesome article. I did not know where to get the factor to convert vests to steem power. This would have been extremely useful in a report that I prepared on delegating steem.
I also did not know that an account with no activity in 7 days is classed as a dead fish
The "dead fish" classification is a fairly arbitrary choice of the steemitboard site. From the perspective of the "raw blockchain" all accounts are equally good, of course, and in practice not every account that has been inactive for 7 days should be really considered "dead".
@dantheman, for example, is a pretty active account here in general with nearly 7K followers. However, as it has not posted for a couple of months it is currently classed as a "dead fish" by steemitboard.
Dead fish is a classification I added to SteemitBoard, just for fun and to incentivize users to stay active.
good idea @arcange, retention is rather low so this is a good incentive
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STOPThanks for this analysis, complete with code! I wish more people would do this kind of thing, allows you to see under "the hood" to spin up your own analysis.
I am surprised at the number of "dead" accounts, though. Do these ever get culled for inactivity? Or do they bloat the record forever?
Appreciate you sharing this.
As I mentioned in another comment here, a "dead fish" account is not necessarily "dead", it just has been inactive for 7 days. Most of them are probably totally live, just on a small break at the moment.
Estimating the number of "most probably certainly dead" accounts is a nice exercise, though.
Ah, that makes sense. It would be interesting to note which accounts seem to be on an "extended" hiatus, though. Perhaps arbitrary time cutoffs plotted against their cumulative inactivity.
I assume that Steemit doesn't cull accounts over a certain age with no activity? Was curious about that detail.
Of course, Steemit does not care for who is active and who is not. The plot of cumulative inactivity would be interesting. If no one cares to make one earlier, I'll add it to the next post in the series.
I just discovered your articles. It would have saved me lots of time, thanks for the quality