Timeline for Is answer upvoting declining - is the Electorate badge (partially) to blame?
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| Feb 24, 2011 at 10:57 | comment | added | amelvin | @jzd I agree - those stats would prove/disprove the theory - surely someone must have the time/an itch to run a report on the stats! Perhaps that's a feature request - somewhere to add a bounty to make data requests. I guess I could use the rep from this question to pay for such a bounty. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 14:57 | comment | added | jzd | @amelvin, it would be interesting to know: 1. What percentage of all voting does this group make up. 2. Has there been an increase in questions voting in this group? (Which would support the theory of a drop in answer voting due to Electorate Badge). | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 14:42 | comment | added | amelvin | @jzd Not all those 7000 will be active, but if each has voted 1000 times each on average, then factoring in question reputation, accepted and accepting answers then I would guess that these users have distributed 50-100 million points of reputation between them over time. If half of them are active and they make, say, 50-60 votes a month that's still about 2,000,000 reputation points a month being distributed - change the habits of this group and you change the site. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 13:42 | comment | added | jzd | @Amelvin, that is assuming that the 7000 users are current active, know about the electorate badge, and are changing their habits to meet that goal. This seems like a lot of assumptions and speculation. Without data we are just guessing as to the effect. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 12:57 | comment | added | amelvin | @jzd the 7000 users with the civic duty badge probably represent the majority of currently 'active' users (not the lurkers or one-question-and-never-return types). If they change their voting habits to achieve electorate then I think this will be VERY noticeable - and I think people are noticing. A gold badge for simply voting is a bad pattern IMO - should be downgraded to silver. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 12:23 | comment | added | jzd | @Amelvin. Maybe, but there are only 7000 users with even the Civic Duty badge and 10% of them already have the Electorate Badge. So it might be a factor but I think not large enough to make a noticeable impact. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 12:17 | comment | added | amelvin | I think (but don't know) that answer upvotes started to downturn more quickly in late autumn when a bunch of new badges were introduced - I think the electorate badge was one of them. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 11:59 | history | answered | jzd | CC BY-SA 2.5 |