Timeline for Diminishing returns / non-linear reputation from “great” answers
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| Jan 2, 2019 at 17:48 | history | edited | ale | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed grammar
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| Jan 2, 2019 at 17:38 | answer | added | Picachieu | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 31, 2018 at 13:03 | answer | added | Jonathan Laliberte | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 23, 2017 at 12:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/
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| Sep 24, 2014 at 14:40 | answer | added | jackthehipster | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 23, 2014 at 23:33 | answer | added | Raedwald | timeline score: 12 | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 2:38 | comment | added | Qantas 94 Heavy | I generally try and answer niche, particularly not easy questions. Recently though, I had a go at a few "noob" questions and got much more reputation in one week than for the previous month - (at least) I believe that there's most certainly something to this effect occurring on SO. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 1:35 | answer | added | Brad LarsonMod | timeline score: 28 | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 1:29 | comment | added | Servy | @Chronial Most questions that get a lot of votes don't get it as a steady trickle over time. Some do, but most of the really highly voted answers get posted on reddit or some other social networking site and get a ton of votes over a few hours/days, and then it trails off to nothing after that. The questions that both get a lot of votes and get it spread out over a long period of time account for a minuscule percentage of the questions on this site. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 1:27 | comment | added | Chronial | @Servy I still don’t see how it helps the issue – I never hit the rep-cap with my “easy rep” answers, I only hit it when I spend a lot of time on SO during a single day. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 1:20 | comment | added | Servy | @Chronial Tell that to Jon Skeet. He's one of just a handful of people who actually consistantly hits the rep cap basically every single day. Very few people hit the rep cap more than just occasionally. He provides more valuable content than just about any other contributor, despite the fact that, for quite some time now, he could just walk away and hit the rep cap every single day. Clearly the people capable of hitting the rep cap regularly are people that aren't here just to earn rep. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 1:11 | comment | added | Chronial | @Servy I disagree: It also guarantees that once you have a lot of popular answers that are steadily upvoted, writing new and great answers is rewarded not only with comparably little, but actually no reputation at all. I think that balances out any good it does regarding this problem. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 1:06 | comment | added | Servy | The rep cap ends up eating a lot of the rep of highly voted answers/questions, which address this to a point. | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 1:05 | comment | added | Pekka | Related: Revisiting the rep cap (yes, again) | |
| Oct 15, 2013 at 0:57 | history | asked | Chronial | CC BY-SA 3.0 |