Timeline for Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive
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| Aug 8, 2021 at 23:56 | comment | added | Roko C. Buljan | If you find that a popular question does not have the right answer - you're really welcome to post one. If you're happy for your answer to be on page 3 without adding up (in content and quality) to the already posted ones - you're welcome to do that too - there's always reasoning users who will constructively vote, flag, and close such answers. | |
| Aug 8, 2021 at 23:46 | comment | added | Dharman | @RokoC.Buljan If "reached" is part of gamification then it only encourages to post answers on questions with a lot of views. What's the point in that? | |
| Aug 8, 2021 at 23:41 | comment | added | Roko C. Buljan | Are Badges, Reputation, etc, also "vanity"? And all the other metrics that got people engaged in the first place!? The "Reached" is a great metric. You can have thousands of answers on unpopular questions. Compare two users with a similar number of answers - here "Reached" comes at play - and you guessed right, it has nothing to do with "vanity" but with questions popularity. On the other hand it's amazing from time to time see that your answers have an impact in the world, amongst other people. It's a lovely metric. | |
| Aug 7, 2021 at 2:28 | comment | added | m4n0 | With the Olympics going on, won't be surprised with the interpretetions. | |
| Aug 7, 2021 at 1:08 | comment | added | Cave Johnson | I have you beat. I can reach 138 kilometers with my arms. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 15:52 | comment | added | user1035193 | Yeah, it makes sense. Just when I start to really like the thing I remember fatal flaws in it like that that you mentioned. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 15:50 | comment | added | canon | @Hcaertnit I was initially interested in the proposed metric until we realized that SO didn't have timestamped view information. Nor did they know whether your answer even made it into the viewport when the question was viewed. So, they couldn't properly correlate views on a question with when your answer was posted or whether it could even have been seen. Both of these objections, and more, were raised during the feature discussion. Someone at the top wanted "a number" and they didn't much care how it was derived; so, this is what we got. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 15:39 | comment | added | user1035193 | @canon you guys are winning me over with the reason of your arguments...as I said above, I concede to its removal. However, I doubt it will be permanently effaced from the system for a while (if ever). | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 15:38 | comment | added | user1035193 | @Unconsidered I haven't actually done that myself, but now that you point it out I recall seeing that happen. Yeah, I haven't though of that, in that case it's definitely not accurate. Still, as long as it's showing up somewhere (or at least accesbile somehow), I'm fine with it being removed from the profile summary itself. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 15:38 | comment | added | canon | @Hcaertnit it really doesn't show you anything remotely reliable. Have you looked at how they derive that metric? It's laughable. Let me find you the link... | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 15:36 | comment | added | Unconsidered | @Hcaertnit Do you realize that the view count is "retrofitted"? As in if you post an new Answer on a 10 year old Question that already has 2.5m views, you suddenly got those views added to your account. Even if no one ever loads that Question up again. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 14:52 | comment | added | user1035193 | That's a good boin @KevinB. Also, it's still visibile on the activity page, so it's not as bad to remove it as I thought... | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 13:52 | comment | added | Kevin B | I mean, at a certain point it is useless. It doesn’t change from 3.6m to something else regularly, where as how old your account is changes monthly | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 13:00 | comment | added | user1035193 | Yes, I understand that, I didn't mean to put it that way exactly. Does that mean that it's not useful? I don't think so. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 12:57 | comment | added | Dharman | @Hcaertnit That's not how it works. The number is an estimate based on the view count of all questions in which you have posted an answer. This doesn't mean that someone saw your post, just that they opened the page where your answer is posted. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 12:52 | comment | added | user1035193 | @Dharman because I, for one, look at my reached count every single day. It gives me an overview of who viewed my posts. It also is cool to see an estimate of how many actually viewed the posts of a user. It will be really cool when someone gets up to 1B. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 12:21 | comment | added | Dharman | @Hcaertnit Why don't you want this removed? | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 12:17 | comment | added | user1035193 | Joking aside, I fully disagree with this change. I in no way want this to be removed. As for "vanity", well, the profile picture itself is "vanity", is it not? | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 11:40 | comment | added | samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz | @Hcaertnit Easy: pngitem.com/pimgs/m/… | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 11:36 | history | edited | Dharman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 11:34 | comment | added | user1035193 | You mean you can reach 3.6 meters with your arms? Ha ha ha | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 11:25 | history | answered | Dharman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
