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Which sites have the most prominent top users?

I was looking at the top users of Chess Stack Exchange and noticed the top user @BrianTowers has more than twice the reputation (79k) of the next user @PhishMaster (32.1k). Are there more Stack ...
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Highest reputation moderators?

Highest-rep users on the network are easy enough to find. What about highest-rep moderators? We all know that moderation ability doesn't necessarily correlate with reputation, and moderators on ...
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The Stack Exchange Active User Base

I have this question related to the Stack Exchange active user base. According to this webpage, currently, there are around 661,293 Stack Overflow users who have at least 200 points as their ...
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Which inactive users have the most reputation?

I'm referring to users like Arturo Magidin. Let me know if there's a better adjective than 'inactive', but Arturo Magidin's profile encapsulates it: With the move of MathOverflow into the SE network, ...
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Iron law of oligarchy on Stack Exchange?

Does the iron law of oligarchy apply on Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange communities? How do we measure it? From Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron law Extends to Peer Production: ...
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SEDE statistical model construction, how do I calculate the effect of the upvotes to the new content?

I think we all know the endorphin produced by the Green Rectangle very well. Varying from our individual habit, mood, SE experience, and a lot others, I think we can agree it is a major force growing ...
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Where do people's reputation bonuses come from? What impact do these reputation bonuses have on site development?

When a user joins a new Stack Exchange site, if they have 200 or more reputation on at least one other site, they get +100 reputation on the new site. This allows them to avoid some of the ...
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Determining how many users on site have particular privilege (reputation level)?

Is there any easy way to see how many users on a site have attained a particular privilege? For example, the number of users on this site who have the 3,000 reputation needed to cast close/re-open ...
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What is the average time distribution of reputation accrual?

I am wondering if anyone has analyzed average reputation points accrued over time. Given that posting a good answer to a question will accrue a total of x points over a year, I imagine there must be ...
Ted Epstein's user avatar
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Which answer has the most bounty points awarded to it?

Which answer has had the most bounty points awarded to it? It would obviously have been awarded multiple bounties.
Christopher King's user avatar
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See list of users by bounty reputation earned/spent

Is there a way (I expect through the data explorer) to see a list of users in descending order based solely on the amount of reputation they have earned through bounties? Conversely, how about the ...
Fish Below the Ice's user avatar
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Calculate the average reputation by user in SO

I'm just wondering how to calculate or to get a raw number of the average reputation per user in Stack Overflow or any other Stack Exchange sites?
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Users with high reputation on several Stack Exchange network sites

It's easy to track down the users with most reputation on a particular network site. I am much more interested in those universal geniuses who have earned a lot of reputation on many different sites. ...
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Can I see how I have affected other users' reputation?

Can I see how I have affected other users' reputation? That is, I would like to know how much reputation I have caused certain other users to gain. It would be even more interesting to rank other ...
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How are these points with limit of 200 per day possible [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How does “Reputation” work? How to get over 200 reputation points every day? Check out these stats. If there is a limit of 200 points per day (excluding bounty) how could these ...
Java Ka Baby's user avatar
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Is there an analysis of what % of total site pageviews comes from users with a certain amount of rep?

This question got me curious: What percentage of total page-views of the site are from users with editing privileges? Whether that information is truly important or not is debatable, but it shows ...
Gordon Gustafson's user avatar
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What is the average increase of reputation of a beginning user on SO?

Is there somewhere I can look to discover a graph showing the average reputation-gain of a new user? In my current obsession with rep, I need to know if my gain has been above or below average. :) ...
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SE sites slowing down in third month - normal behavior or something to worry about?

Today I got an email from SE English Language and Usage. I was congratulated of being one of the top users this month (October). Looking at the stats I saw something rather disturbing. While in the ...
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How can I get all users' total reputation across all sites?

I like how Area 51 shows users by their total reputation across all sites, as an indication of the user's general familiarity with the Stack Exchange format. Is it possible to get a list of all (or a ...
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What percentage of Stack Overflow users have over 10,000 rep? [closed]

What percentage of Stack Overflow users have over 10,000 rep?
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The fastest reputation points gaining user at Stack Overflow

How do I determine which user is moving at the fastest pace in terms of reputation points? I am asking for users who have been at Stack Overflow for at least five months. Any query to be run at ...
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How is it possible to exceed the rep cap without reaching it?

I was browsing my reputation audit and noticed this (which looks like a nice new feature not yet mentioned anywhere) in the footer: rep cap was reached on 16 days rep cap was exceeded on 22 days Now ...
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Request for Last 30 Days Top Users ladder

Can we have an option to list users by their daily average reputation gain? It should just be a simple totalReputation / numOfDaysAsMember. As a sub-request, can we get the exact number of days that ...
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Statistics of how fast users reach 10k or other thresholds?

While reading the comments for Joel Coehoorn's answer to the "“You have gained power. Here’s how to use it.” kind of message" question, I started wondering - is there any data on which we can base the ...
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Am I a better asker or answerer?

I was wondering if there was a fairly easy way to see what percentage of my reputation comes from asking questions or answering them. It should be fairly simple to calculate the average reputation ...
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Anomalous last digit tally for daily rep

Looking though my daily rep scores with a piece of Java, makes me think that the ParallelArray approach might be a good idea, I noticed that the last digits were strangely distributed. Table is my rep ...
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Post quality - reputation per question/answer

I'm hoping an SQL guru can whip this out in a jiffy, using stackql or stateoverflow. I'd like to get a number for each user that represents their reputation over the number of posts they've ...
Pollyanna's user avatar
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Daily Reputation Statistics

Is there any way to list users by reputation gained within the last x days/weeks? If not, could one be added? Edit post-reading back/reading comments and realising I sound terrifyingly like a stalker:...
Dominic Rodger's user avatar
14 votes
2 answers
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Show breakdown of user's reputation by source - from answers, from questions

I think it would be useful showing the breakdown of a user's reputation on their User page. Nothing fancy, just the percentage of reputation from questions asked and from answers given.
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Correlation between reputation and use of actual name on SO

Has anyone looked at the statistical correlation between a person's reputation and their use of their actual name on SO vs. use of a "handle" or nickname? I sometimes see users with obvious "developer"...
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Rep statistics - per tag

Is there any way to get the breakdown of my rep per tag ? As there are badges available depending on how many upvotes I have per tag it makes sense to get these stats.
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Which accounts have more questions than answers?

There has been some discussion about certain users that ask tons of questions, but otherwise do not actively participate in a productive manner. I do not know if this is in fact true, I just want some ...
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