@RoryAlsop How anal are we supposed to be with grammar and punctuation in edits? I often wonder, if it's always required. I mostly keep it to readability levels, I gather that's sufficient?
@TildalWave The general idea is that, in everything you write, you should respect proper grammatical and typographic rules with the utmost precision. However, each edit entails some cost (especially with regards to the automatic conversion to community wiki after ten edits), so you should avoid minor cosmetic edits.
@ThomasP - yes, we have had a dramatic slump. Guessing some sort of holiday time in the US? Similar slump on the other site I have mod access to.
@Tildal - if there is only a tiny edit required I wouldn't bother, however if you were already editing then it makes sense to fix all the issues in the post at the same time.
This graph is also interesting (questions/answers per month - well actually per every past 30 days). It could be easily modified to return per day results ;)
I was wondering if it was due to our (American) tendency to spend our discretionary time following the news anytime something sensational, morbid, and offering the opportunity for plenty of FUD happens here in the States.
Interestingly, this dip in answers/questions ratio seems to be a trend throughout SE, with only a handful of exceptions that I've noticed so far (mathematics, electronics, database). Some of others are in a huge depression, like webmasters and ubuntu that is nearly at all time low for the past year.
Tho the number of new questions seems to be on the rise everywhere. Not sure, if these stats account for closed questions tho.
@RoryAlsop Not sure that answers the apparent rise in the number of new questions, tho I did want to suggest that also at first. Maybe it's the start of the mating season and people tend to have more questions than answers because of hormonal imbalance? :))
