Timeline for On the paucity of voting
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| Jul 3, 2014 at 19:52 | comment | added | Sirex | tbh i'm not convinced that's really enough information to draw conclusions from as most people's participation would vary over time surely ? I know mine definitely dropped hugely after about the first year or so. The answer I put is more or less why that occurred for me, and perhaps others too. | |
| Jul 2, 2014 at 20:09 | comment | added | user9517 | @Sirex The only publicly available information is reputation and voting records as supplied under the user stats. SE have said on several occasions that there is a strong correlation between reputation and time spent on site. So to gain rep/vote that's a measure of participation so low rep + long membership = lower participation and high rep + short membership is higher participation with a spectrum in between. This question really was aimed at the latter group who like their voting are conspicuously absent. | |
| Jul 2, 2014 at 19:48 | comment | added | Sirex | @iain out of curiosity, what's your metric for participation ? | |
| Jul 1, 2014 at 21:54 | comment | added | user9517 | Yes I think you may have it wrong then. The checkmark is (usually but not always) the OP saying this is what worked for me. The voting is community oversight. Without it we're really no better than a random blog on the internet. Remember, we're not just here for the OP, we're here for all the peopel with the same problem who arrive via google. The voting is or t least should be, an indication to then that the community thought the answer was good. | |
| Jul 1, 2014 at 16:17 | comment | added | jeffatrackaid | I basically see voting as recommending an answer to a user where the question has been unanswered. Once the user accepts and answer, I don't see much reason to vote. Why participate if the contest is over. Perhaps it is a wrong headed view about what voting means but I doubt I'm alone in this view. | |
| Jul 1, 2014 at 7:17 | comment | added | user9517 | Like @Sirex I wouldn't have put someone with such a low participation in the group that this was aimed at so thanks for your answer. Why don't you vote when there is an accepted answer ? I can understand not up voting a question which is trivially answered by reading the docs (I'm he same), but why is the answer provided not worth voting on ? | |
| Jun 30, 2014 at 20:49 | comment | added | jeffatrackaid | I've updated my answers to give more specifics. However, I still think that duplicate content lowers user engagement. If you could funnel all of the questions about a specific issue into a great Q&A, I would be more likely to vote on that great information. | |
| Jun 30, 2014 at 20:48 | history | edited | jeffatrackaid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2014 at 19:12 | comment | added | user9517 | Ok so that may seem a bit harsh but your answer isn't really what I'm looking for. With regard to duplicates, search and the ability to find them is a complete mess which does need to be resolved. You may be interested in meta.stackexchange.com/questions/232242/… and it's linked/related Q&A | |
| Jun 30, 2014 at 19:01 | history | answered | jeffatrackaid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |