Timeline for Programmers Stack Exchange question downvoting, what to do?
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 20:45 | vote | accept | Jimmy Hoffa | ||
| Sep 10, 2012 at 20:43 | vote | accept | Jimmy Hoffa | ||
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| Sep 10, 2012 at 17:55 | comment | added | yannis Mod | Programmers had been lax in deleting old crap This is somewhat true. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 17:36 | comment | added | Jimmy Hoffa | The second one which is +3 was in the negative when I posted it as an example, it became negative mere minutes after it was posted as a question, but luckily someone took the time to edit it to fix the broken english instead of it being ignored then closed which is more common of negative voted questions, I'm guessing because I posted it here it got the attention it should have had to begin with. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 17:26 | comment | added | Jimmy Hoffa | @Rachel have a look at this query, this speaks more to the topic of growing question downvoting: data.stackexchange.com/programmers/query/edit/79473#graph | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 17:18 | comment | added | Rachel | Your revised query would probably be more accurate if you divided up/downvotes on questions by the # of questions, and up/downvotes on answers by the # of answers. Your current method of dividing all up/down votes by the # of questions or answers regardless of what type of post got the up/down vote will make the numbers skewed based on site traffic and voting patterns (for example, do answers get a lot of upvotes while questions do not? or vise versa?) | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 17:10 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 | revised statistics to take vote dates into account; analyze the two example questions |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 15:38 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Rachel Only questions without upvoted answers are automatically deleted, I think this is negligible. On the other hand, the historical variation is a good point, especially as Programmers has a lot of hugely-voted-on old crap migrated from SO which probably skews the averages (feel free to write a query with medians if your SQL skills are up to it). Let me see if I can get more relevant recent statistics. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 15:22 | comment | added | Rachel | Those numbers are very skewed from the site's early days. This query will show you a more accurate average post score for questions since 2011. The average question score has actually been dropping quite a bit. If you remove the piece of the query that limits questions to 2011 or later, you'll see the huge score averages from pre-2011 which skew the numbers from your query. Also, Data.SE does not include deleted questions, and I know a process auto-deletes low scoring questions after a few weeks or months. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 15:12 | history | answered | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |