Comments on: Civic duty on StackOverflow http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/12/civic-duty-on-stackoverflow/ The blog of John D. Cook Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:25:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Stu Thompson http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/12/civic-duty-on-stackoverflow/comment-page-1/#comment-16011 Stu Thompson Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:51:01 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1992#comment-16011 Great stuff, John! I was wondering about some of these things myself recently. In particular, what are the statistics and patterns behind down votes. What are the ratios of up vote to down votes across the user spectrum. Etc... If you have the time, maybe it would make for another interesting blog post? Stu Great stuff, John!

I was wondering about some of these things myself recently. In particular, what are the statistics and patterns behind down votes. What are the ratios of up vote to down votes across the user spectrum. Etc…

If you have the time, maybe it would make for another interesting blog post?

Stu

]]> By: Bill the Lizard http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/12/civic-duty-on-stackoverflow/comment-page-1/#comment-15858 Bill the Lizard Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:21:49 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1992#comment-15858 I had emailed you after your last post on this topic, saying "I suspect that those Long Tail users without much reputation of there own are actively voting and generating the vast majority of the reputation for the rest of us..." I was sufficiently vague, so you can't really tell how wrong I was. I'm very surprised that only 4% of the users cast half the votes. I had emailed you after your last post on this topic, saying “I suspect that those Long Tail users without much reputation of there own are actively voting and generating the vast majority of the reputation for the rest of us…”

I was sufficiently vague, so you can’t really tell how wrong I was. I’m very surprised that only 4% of the users cast half the votes.

]]> By: John http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/12/civic-duty-on-stackoverflow/comment-page-1/#comment-15854 John Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:37:12 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1992#comment-15854 Hadley, I imagine you're right, that votes and reputation are highly correlated with time spent on the site, but I didn't have that data. Hadley, I imagine you’re right, that votes and reputation are highly correlated with time spent on the site, but I didn’t have that data.

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]]> By: Hadley Wickham http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/04/12/civic-duty-on-stackoverflow/comment-page-1/#comment-15839 Hadley Wickham Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:33:09 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1992#comment-15839 Isn't there an alternative explanation that involves a confounding variable? What if both votes and reputation are simply proportional to the amount of time spent on the site? Isn’t there an alternative explanation that involves a confounding variable? What if both votes and reputation are simply proportional to the amount of time spent on the site?

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