Reputation Problem on Ask Ubuntu

Conversation started Feb 13, 2012 at 12:37.

Octavian Damiean

Feb 13, 2012 12:37

Mhmm, @StefanoPalazzo do you know how many users were eligible to vote?

jokerdino

4700++

Stefano Palazzo

I think it was a few thousand, not sure

Octavian Damiean

I see.

Stefano Palazzo

I won't look up the exact number in case that's not public information, but that sounds about right

Octavian Damiean

Can't wait to find out how many really voted.

Stefano Palazzo

Feb 13, 2012 12:39

this is from programmers.se: 5,874 voters were eligible, 2,198 visited the site during the election, 652 visited the election page, and 297 voted

Octavian Damiean

OH GOD!

That is almost nothing!

Stefano Palazzo

if we were a country, the UN would shut it down tomorrow :)

jokerdino

@OctavianDamiean data.stackexchange.com/ubuntu/query/60932/…

Octavian Damiean

That was roughly 5%!

jokerdino

Seems like it is actually 2200+

I seemed to have cached the superuser voters count.

Stefano Palazzo

Feb 13, 2012 12:41

shouldn't that say "where Reputation >= 150"?

Octavian Damiean

Don't forget that this query runs on older data.

jokerdino

@OctavianDamiean Less than a week.

Octavian Damiean

nods @StefanoPalazzo

Stefano Palazzo

> 2154 rows returned in 148 ms

Octavian Damiean

That query seems to be missing out all 150 rep users.

Stefano Palazzo

Feb 13, 2012 12:43

so we expect 200 people to vote

jokerdino

@StefanoPalazzo Is that an overestimate?

Octavian Damiean

Around 10%?

So much?

jokerdino

> 776 voters were eligible, 211 visited the election, and 145 voted

Last year was better it seems.

Octavian Damiean

Actually 9%.

Stefano Palazzo

when I say "we", I mean "I"

Octavian Damiean

Feb 13, 2012 12:45

Stefano Palazzo

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Octavian Damiean

That is quite a shocking result on Programmers.SE.

What's even more shocking is how many users >= 150 reputation they have compared to us.

jokerdino

They are not passionate enough :D

That means the elected moderators aren't really backed by the full community..

Octavian Damiean

Well actually they are. It is not their fault that the rest of the community didn't care to vote.

jrg

waves morning/afternoon all.

Octavian Damiean

Feb 13, 2012 12:50

Hello.

jokerdino

Night here.

jrg

@StefanoPalazzo wait, did I read correctly that you only expect 200 voters? O_o

@jokerdino same difference. :P

jokerdino

Oxymoron? :P

Octavian Damiean

Only? That is quite a lot of voters!

Stefano Palazzo

@jrg I'm pretty sure that's reasonable, yeah

Octavian Damiean

Feb 13, 2012 12:51

Compared to the current Programmers.SE results.

jrg

crud, i need to update my calendar, I made a mistake - it thinks we still have two days of elections left. :P

@StefanoPalazzo wow....

Stefano Palazzo

@jrg you can take some comfort in the thought that we have thousands and thousands of users who never create an account :)

jrg

Trust me, I have plenty of comfort in that thought. ;)

Stefano Palazzo

we've been growing like crazy this cycle

jokerdino

Make chromify-osd work in Firefox and I will give you a bounty.

jrg

Feb 13, 2012 12:55

@jokerdino george already did that.

jokerdino

I can't set it up :S

Octavian Damiean

I'm not afraid of the growth factor since I know that it should be more than good but about the low reputation per user ratio.

jrg

^^ what he said

jokerdino

You know. 'it happens.

jrg

@jokerdino oh? What's going on? Can you walk me through it so I can help?

jokerdino

Feb 13, 2012 12:57

@jrg How do you get it to work in the first place?

Octavian Damiean

We should try out a Welcome to Ask Ubuntu event. Kinda like a beginners day.

It would be a chat event advertised with a Meta post and a site banner.

jokerdino

A: How to make firefox use notifyOSD?

There is a script made by Marco Ceppi and modified by George Edison that allows Firefox to use Notify-OSD. For Firefox to use Notify-OSD, you need to have Greasemonkey extension installed in Firefox. After that, you need to download this script. You also have to download NPAPI plugin and copy ...

I tried that and it doesn't work :S

Octavian Damiean

We'd try to explain new users how to properly use the site. Why it is important to vote, flag and so on.

jokerdino

Put it on the trello board! \o/

Octavian Damiean

Oh right!

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