Timeline for How much is a Stack Exchange reputation point worth, roughly, to the company?
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| Jun 4, 2021 at 7:42 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Well - I've applied to be a CM 4 times, at least once with over 100k rep. I think I'll leave it to folks to judge what the value of the reputation is to SO, considering I've never gotten a chance. Even if there was, I think the value of the user is mostly in terms of the intangible. And I've certainly not gotten that many opportunities due to being a high rep SU or MSE user. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 11:32 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | Oh I believe that reputation has literally zero value to SO (unlike views etc.). But your answer mentions the benefit to you, and puts its value quite below what I think the real value to an individual is. Namely, not just useless swag. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 11:18 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | Well - it can be to you - but getting people getting hired isn't a direct dollar value to SO, or its new owners. the value is very much indirect | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 11:05 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | I’ve gotten my current job in large parts due to my Stack Overflow reputation. It’s not worth nothing. | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 13:44 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | You're basically seeing what you want - basically the abstraction between revenue sources and precise answers is pretty big | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:50 | comment | added | user314825 | I think your second paragraph suggests it does make sense to assign a dollar value to rep. If rep started correlating negatively with profit, or with income, that would be a problem. Rep also correlates with the goodwill from which the company benefits among its contributors, otherwise it wouldn't send promotional goodies to high-rep users. (I'm wondering whether I should estimate a figure for the company's entire worth and divide it by the total number of reputation points :) Horribly quick and dirty, but unless someone suggests a better method...) | |
| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:15 | history | edited | GlorfindelMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2017 at 12:06 | history | answered | Journeyman Geek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |