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is anyone here?

is game on going on now?

@YiJiang What if I baseline against people who haven't asked a question in 2012?

or we could look at last seen vs current time

well, we could look at the probability someone gains more than 200 rep

I just don't know how to

Yes, I understand

@YiJiang, but these are both interpretations, is there a metric we could look at which would give us a better idea of how a closed question affects a user?

@YiJiang sure we can ignore the first couple months, and the last couple months, but that doesn't really change the data, it merely removes the outliers.

@YiJiang I'm limited in the data I can examine. There is no exist interview for users for me to determine the actual reason why a users left (or even if they did leave, the 200 mark is completely arbitrary). I've shown the total user <200 rate for comparison before, and it looks relatively similar to the total join rate (wich is to say: not convincing one way or another)

I don't think you're a bad person for any of what we've discussed

and likewise I've ment nothing personal by it

like I said, I don't take it personally, so there is no need for you to apologize

I thought it was a game

ah

I do have time while this code builds

I've never played, so I dont' know what that is

or times won and lost

they could regale us with their favorite memories

now that might be an interesting topic

I try not to take people's tones personally on the internet, there is too much room left for interpretation

@Tristan it waxes and wanes

we've been discussing this for hours

@Tristan I think that's a little unfair

but your proleclivity for exaggeration has not escaped my notice

I don't think we have to bend over backwards, we're talking about a fairly minute effort of work

but then, you've said you were done before and been unwilling to leave

@MarkTrapp strange since I have said the same about you

it's sort of the basis for modern science...

I'm sorry that you think statistics aren't convincing. I find not-statistics to be unconvincing, but that's probably because I do a lot of statistics

I don't really see what your goal is here, I think you're just sort of arguing because you don't want to admit defeat. I mean, clearly you're not going to influence me or vice versa. And you've already said that you want to agree to disagree

@MarkTrapp perhaps I should have said "potential value?" I sort of thought that was obvious since that's what we've been talking about

first impresesions may be hard to shake, but they do have a strong effect

I run a much larger website that gaming.stackexchange, and I can tell you people who have a bad experience tend not to come back, However, when we do studies where we drag them back (through promotions or focus groups) they can go on to be productive members

you're making an implicit assumption that their unwillingness to contribute provides an indicator of negative value

@MarkTrapp is that true or do you just assume?

nobody's perfect after all

#questions correlates to closed questions as well

a users who participates a lot is more likely to ask closed questions just because they ask more questions

and it's a negative effect on retention not reputation

it's not 100% either way

not really

some of the people with the most closed questions are heavy participants on the site

@MarkTrapp closure doesn't demonstrate bad user

or "not a team player"

Was StageSeven.com ruled out?

@LessPop_MoreFizz I never saw. Link?

I still like: stagesix.com or stageseven.com: i.imgur.com/P0AED.png