I don't have any issues with "not voting/accepting" if everyone else goes along with it but I suspect that TPTB already have all of that info, they just need to exclude the votes and selections from the top 10 users/mods on any given period ;-).
This has been discussed ''ad naseum'' over the years and not much has ever changed. If you contribute here, you have to accept it for what it is. Most OP's will never come back to their question to comment, vote, select etc., unless, as @jayeff pointed out, they have follow-up questions or comments. They rarely vote and accept even less. Heck, as I’ve mentioned before, even many of the regular contributors to this forum don’t upvote good, quality answers by the other members…how can you expect panic’d OP’s who have no real connection to this forum (and who are probably asking on multiple forums) to do so.
When I first started out, I noticed an organic "Accept" rate of ~15%. That was with a bit of prodding the OP on my part. As for upvotes, looking back now, I have 10240 upvotes on 4299 Answers for an upvote rate of about 2.38 votes per answer. If I exclude my top-5 voters (bless their hearts!), my upvote rate falls to 0.68 and if I exclude the top-10 voters (who are all, or were, regular contributors), then my upvote rate is 0.54. At this point, even removing dozens more upvoters doesn't change the ratio much.
So there you have it; with good answers, you should expect no more than 10-20% Acceptance rate and if you remove the upvotes from the mods and regular contributors, you would get about 0.5 vote per answer. So if you want to reach 500 000 points ''au naturel…''
* You would need to provide 10 quality answers '''''every day''''' for 13 years!
* You would need to provide 5 quality answers '''''every day''''' for 26 years!
* Pfft…if all you can offer (for free should I add) is 5 quality answers every working day, then you will need 37 years! That’s slacker work if ever I saw it ;-).
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However, the elephant in the room is the very fact that pretty much all of us commenting here have much larger point totals than even the “10 quality answers every day” rate would generate. That is all thanks to the tireless effort by @oldturkey03 and @mayer to consistently (as in almost every friggin day for the last 5 years) upvote and accept answers in the name of the OP to reward the efforts of the Forum’s most consistent contributors.
We answer because we want to, whatever that motivation may be. The points, upvotes, selections are distorted by many forces; OP’s don’t give a %#*@, lurkers vote for the weirdest answers and the Uncles have been rewarding us for years.
The point totals we see today will probably never be repeated in the future. Enjoy them while they last.
For me, I can’t thank Mayer and OT enough for making this forum what it is.
I don't have any issues with "not voting/accepting" if everyone else goes along with it but I suspect that TPTB already have all of that info, they just need to exclude the votes and selections from the top 10 users/mods on any given period ;-).
This has been discussed ''ad naseum'' over the years and not much has ever changed. If you contribute here, you have to accept it for what it is. Most OP's will never come back to their question to comment, vote, select etc., unless, as @jayeff pointed out, they have follow-up questions or comments. They rarely vote and accept even less. Heck, as I’ve mentioned before, even many of the regular contributors to this forum don’t upvote good, quality answers by the other members…how can you expect panic’d OP’s who have no real connection to this forum (and who are probably asking on multiple forums) to do so.
When I first started out, I noticed an organic "Accept" rate of ~15%. That was with a bit of prodding the OP on my part. As for upvotes, looking back now, I have 10240 upvotes on 4299 Answers for an upvote rate of about 2.38 votes per answer. If I exclude my top-5 voters (bless their hearts!), my upvote rate falls to 0.68 and if I exclude the top-10 voters (who are all, or were, regular contributors), then my upvote rate is 0.54. At this point, even removing dozens more upvoters doesn't change the ratio much.
So there you have it; with good answers, you should expect no more than 10-20% Acceptance rate and if you remove the upvotes from the mods and regular contributors, you would get about 0.5 vote per answer. So if you want to reach 500 000 points ''au naturel…''
* You would need to provide 10 quality answers '''''every day''''' for 13 years!
* You would need to provide 5 quality answers '''''every day''''' for 26 years!
* Pfft…if all you can offer (for free should I add) is 5 quality answers every working day, then you will need 37 years! That’s slacker work if ever I saw it ;-).
However, the elephant in the room is the very fact that pretty much all of us commenting here have much larger point totals than even the “10 quality answers every day” rate would generate. That is all thanks to the tireless effort by @oldturkey03 and @mayer to consistently (as in almost every friggin day for the last 5 years) upvote and accept answers in the name of the OP to reward the efforts of the Forum’s most consistent contributors.
We answer because we want to, whatever that motivation may be. The points, upvotes, selections are distorted by many forces; OP’s don’t give a %#*@, lurkers vote for the weirdest answers and the Uncles have been rewarding us for years.
The point totals we see today will probably never be repeated in the future. Enjoy them while they last.
For me, I can’t thank Mayer and OT enough for making this forum what it is.
