Timeline for Why the low voting rates?
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| Jul 1, 2013 at 0:35 | answer | added | user8872 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 22, 2013 at 15:45 | answer | added | RaphaelMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 21, 2013 at 13:13 | answer | added | András Salamon | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 22, 2013 at 15:41 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Mod | @vzn I posted the numbers in my answer, with up/down votes broken down (but not q/a). CSTheory have above average but not record-breaking downvotes, and more upvotes per post than every other site but one. I link to the query in my answer, I'm aware it doesn't work now (something about the db schema must have changed). | |
| Mar 22, 2013 at 15:31 | comment | added | vzn | @gilles where did you get that statistic about high cstheory voting? can you link to it? I think clearly cstheory has both low participation and low votes compared to other se sites. or maybe it has very high voting but a very large part is DOWNVOTING, reflecting its elitism.... | |
| Mar 21, 2013 at 20:02 | comment | added | Artem Kaznatcheev | @Gilles wow, that's interesting! I wouldn't have guessed that for cstheory, but I guess it makes sense since the site has a lot of passionate users but not that many questions. | |
| Mar 21, 2013 at 7:45 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCompSci/status/314643945529434113 | ||
| Mar 21, 2013 at 1:40 | answer | added | Yuval Filmus | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 20, 2013 at 15:21 | comment | added | Juho | @Raphael Yes, that was the one :) | |
| Mar 20, 2013 at 10:45 | comment | added | Raphael Mod | @Juho Do you mean this one? | |
| Mar 20, 2013 at 4:41 | comment | added | Nicholas Mancuso | We certainly don't want vote-inflation! ;) | |
| Mar 20, 2013 at 2:17 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'Mod | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 20, 2013 at 0:38 | comment | added | Juho | I think this is an interesting question. I remember the question was also raised before somewhere, and I remember talking about it to some extent with @Raphael. Perhaps that question was more about "what kind of questions/answers receive upvotes". But I don't know if there's really much one can do: people (down)vote if they want to (or don't) for whatever reason. | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 20:36 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Mod | @RanG. Theoretical Computer Science has the second-highest average number of votes per post among graduated sites (#1 is Skeptics). I don't have figures for Computer Science because it's in beta so it's not on Stack Exchange Data Explorer, I'll see what I can do with the API. | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 16:20 | comment | added | Ran G. | @Raphael It is possible that for science-topics the voting behavior is worse than it is for more soft subjects (for sure, the amount of answers will be lower, since there is only one correct answer, rather than many opinions..), though it's hard to compare to a graduated site. The voting there are low indeed. The voting in TCS, on the other hand, is strange: either very low or very high. | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 8:30 | comment | added | Raphael Mod | Academia is an unfair comparison; softer sites tend to have highter voting than others because questions and answers are more approachable. How do we do in comparison to, say, Mathematics and Physics? | |
| Mar 19, 2013 at 4:05 | history | asked | Ran G. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |