Display the number of up-votes along with the %accepted

Question

Some people ask many questions and only accept answers. Never they give an up-vote. Meaning all the other participants to a question - who may either help or complement the accepted answer - get nothing.

That number is relative to the person activity - and should not always be displayed. But I think it is relevant in many cases (like accept rate: 30%, upvotes: 0 where you know it is unlikely you'll get any rewarding for your work time [besides the other members of course] unless you are the accepted answer).

edit based on comments

Of course a user with 38% accept rate may have been unlucky with the answerers. Since we are talking about likeness, when someone has 20% accept rate, and 0 upvote after asking 50 questions, there could be a problem. Well, he may have been very unlucky with the answers he got, but probability-wise the odds are more keen to indicate the user is a bit tight in terms of offering recognition.

Answer 1

I'm going to give a strong statement: If it was for me the Accept Rate stat would be long gone. Or it would be displayed in a way that it's not misunderstood as it is now.

I'll try to explain my thoughts, hope it helps you gain yet another point of view.

I think it's going to be moved to the profile from what I've seen on MSO, so it won't be plainly visible. The problem is not the stat itself of course, rather that as I said, it's completely misunderstood. I am not aware of the rationale that has been done to implement it, but from being an innocuous stat, it has become something worse. Users see it as

Hey, low accept rate, then he/she must not care about accepting!

While this sometimes may be true, it's not always true. And regardless of whether this is true, the accept rate doesn't tell you why that user hasn't accepted an answer for a certain question. It simply tells you "This user accepted 38% of his questions", nothing else.

The user might have not accepted because:

• There are not good enough answers yet;
• The OP is waiting for more answers;
• The OP is unsure of what answer might be worth accepting;

and so on.

With this in mind, I don't think an additional stat like the one you mention is going to be any more helpful. Perhaps it's only going to influence how people answer and we want more answers, not less.

If there is something I missed, please let me know.

Answer 2

If you care that much about an additional 10 rep from the OP you can click on their username and find out how many votes they have before deciding whether to answer.

There's already significant debate around the accept rate and I don't really see how what you're suggesting is any different. You can get significantly more reputation from upvotes from the rest of the community than you can from the OP.

I don't believe that you should be expecting 25 reputation from the OP if your answer is accepted.