Timeline for How much is a Stack Exchange reputation point worth, roughly, to the company?
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| Feb 10, 2020 at 5:48 | comment | added | Steve Bennett | I'm very curious whether that "never will" statement still holds. | |
| Aug 9, 2017 at 12:04 | comment | added | user314825 | I haven't "made up" any statistics. I do not have an "obsession". I do not wish to put a dollar amount on "everything". My assumptions on the company's value and the value of having "reached" so many people are reasonable, and I have shown a sample correlation of 0.83, not 0, between rep score and number of people "reached". You sound as though you are little interested in answering the question here, in which case, why post? It's a fact, not an opinion, that the company leverages as a profitable asset the contributions made by thousands of people who unlike yourself are unpaid. | |
| Jul 29, 2017 at 11:16 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | "A 100k rep makes the company $8000-$40000". Based on made up statistics - you have shown 0 correlation. This is all assumptions. | |
| Jul 29, 2017 at 11:15 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | What is it with this obsession to putting a dollar amount on everything? | |
| Jul 29, 2017 at 11:13 | comment | added | user314825 | Nobody has suggested that slavery is involved! :) I am not the cynical party here. Far from it. | |
| Jul 29, 2017 at 11:13 | comment | added | user314825 | Common? The terms of service require that if a user takes what somebody other than themselves has posted here and publishes or otherwise uses it somewhere else (on the internet or anywhere) they are obliged to indicate that it comes "from the SE network", and if they use it on the internet to hyperlink to it here. If the total value made by parties other than the company from what is published here is $5000 that would be 0.001% of the $500m the company has made. A 100k rep makes the company $8000-$40000. I hope the ad-carrying t-shirts are high quality. | |
| Jul 28, 2017 at 22:43 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | I will also add that your last comment is incredibly cynical, @ruffle - and that if you don't like it, you don't have to participate (we don't force anyone to participate, after all). | |
| Jul 28, 2017 at 22:43 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @ruffle - what you are ignoring is that what is produced (questions and answers) become a common good. They are not the property of the company (the platform is, but not the user generated content). There's a reason we provide a data dump for all the sites. | |
| Jul 28, 2017 at 22:36 | comment | added | user314825 | The company's arrangement with its army of unpaid helpers seems to be as follows: 1) the helpers work for the company; 2) in return, the company allows them access to some tools to carry out the work with. A neat way to build an asset worth $500m! | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 13:44 | comment | added | Lukas Eder | @Oded: "did it make you happier?" - would money make you happier? :) | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 13:37 | history | edited | OdedStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2017 at 13:36 | comment | added | Servy | @Oded For Facebook, yes. You can pay FB (not a third party) to promote your page/content in order to get it more likes, so there is in fact a monetary value to the company for them (because there's a monetary value to their customers that they can fulfill). | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 13:27 | history | edited | OdedStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2017 at 13:27 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @Servy - but do FB/Twitter (the companies) attach monetary value to them? | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 13:25 | comment | added | Servy | @Oded There are people you can actually go to that will like your page/content for $X per like (because this can give the page/content more attention via facebook's algorithms and for many companies that content is effectively advertising). There is a monetary value for likes on facebook. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 13:12 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @ruffle - I guess I most object to how you conflate the mechanics of the site (reputation/points) with the value of the site to its users/investors/the company. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 13:06 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | Mostly - the link you are drawing between clicks and points. Not seeing the directly correlation that you seem to believe exists. Regardless - you asked about what we do - and we don't do that - we don't use any sort of rate. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:56 | comment | added | user314825 | @Oded - I give some kind of train of thought connecting rep with money in the question. I'm not sure which link in the chain you would question the most. The total amount of perceived goodness of questions and answers correlates with both income and total reputation points, I would say. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:54 | comment | added | user314825 | @Oded - Imagine if Twitter and Facebook contributors stopped issuing likes. That would be a problem. The value isn't just in views but in views times the amount of enjoyment a viewer has while viewing, which can be measured, however roughly, by likes. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:37 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | Why do you think it does make sense to do so, @ruffle? The two things are not correlated. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:36 | comment | added | user314825 | Why do you think it doesn't make any sense to do so? They are some kind of measure of the combined goodness of questions and answers which is what builds the brand and gets the company sales. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:30 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @LukasEder - did it make you happier? | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:27 | comment | added | Lukas Eder | @Oded: I once paid 10$ for 50 likes. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:21 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | Well, YouTube views do have actual monetary value. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:15 | history | edited | GlorfindelMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:13 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @LukasEder - Give me a conversion rate then :P | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:12 | comment | added | Lukas Eder | "twitter/facebook likes don't have any inherent monetary value." - I'm not so sure if TWTR / FB shareholders as well as advertising customers share your opinion, there :) | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 11:51 | history | answered | OdedStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |