UnityAnswers Current Statistics

News & General Discussion
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I was wondering how UnityAnswers was doing, in terms of numbers. Obviously, nothing can compare to Stack Overflow, which is placing bets on when they will hit their millionth question. :slight_smile: But as far as secondary sites, UnityAnswers seems to be doing fairly well.

If you look at Top StackExchange Sites, we’re generally second only to MathOverflow.

But I also wanted to know more about how the user numbers break down by reputation, so I decided to start counting. :slight_smile: Should anyone else care to know, here’s a count of the users in each Category. (I’m not entirely convinced some of the Category numbers are correct - I seem to remember retagging a post early, but it’s what the FAQ says…)

Total Questions = 4,042
Un-Answered Questions (no checkmark) = 846
Answered Questions (checkmarked) = 3,196

Total UnityAnswer Users = 1,464
Administrators = 9 (can edit/delete other’s posts regardless of reputation level)
Moderators = 2

Reputation       People

1              = 754 (half the users!)

2 - 14         = 239

15 - 49        = 249 (can Upvote)

50 - 99        = 94 (can leave Comments)

100 - 499      = 87 (can Downvote)

500 - 1,999    = 32 (can Retag Questions)

2,000 - 2,999  =  5 (can Edit other's Questions/Answers)

3,000 - 9,999  =  4 (can vote to Close posts)

10K+           =  2 (can Delete closed posts)

If I were to graph these numbers with a spreadsheet (if I had a spreadsheet) - it would be more clear that the numbers nicely match the Power Law.

John C>
“For all your days, prepare, and meet them ever alike;
When you are the anvil, bear - when the hammer, strike.”

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I was bored, so I made your graphs for you. :slight_smile: I love visuals. :lol:

Percentage of Answered Questions

User / Point Ratios

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Nice - but the first graph is backwards. 75% of Questions are answered. We’re not that badly off. :slight_smile:

Also, I just changed two numbers, the power-users got some promotions. :slight_smile:

And yeah, I like visuals also, would have liked to post a graph. But I don’t have Excel, and deleted OpenOffice from my system a while ago, and it wasn’t worth re-installing just for this. :slight_smile:

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Oh, haha, my mistake :stuck_out_tongue: I’ve updated them all to reflect the changes, though you may have to update it yet again sometime soon, I’m approaching 3k points :wink:

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Update for UnityAnswers, as of 6/26/10.

Again, you can look at Top StackExchange Sites to see how UnityAnswers matches up to other SE 1.0 sites. We tend to fluctuate around the top 3.

Total Questions = 5,205 [+1,163] (80% Answered)
Un-Answered Questions (no checkmark) = 1,020 [+174]
Answered Questions (checkmarked) = 4,185 [+989]

Question with zero replies at all: 461
As a percentage of Total Questions = 9%
As a percentage of Un-checkmarked Questions = 45%

Total UnityAnswer Users = 1,737 [+273]
Administrators = 9 (can edit/delete other’s posts regardless of reputation level. Not counted below.)
Moderators = 2

Reputation       People

1         = 892 [+138] (half the users!)

2+        = 304 [+65]

15+       = 298 [+49] (can Upvote)

50+       = 116 [+22] (can leave Comments)

100+      = 116 [+29] (can Downvote)

500+      =  33 [+1] (can Retag Questions)

2,000+    =   4 [-1] (can Edit other's Questions/Answers)

3,000+    =   6 [+2] (can vote to Close posts)

10K+      =   2 (can Delete closed posts)

John C>
“For all your days, prepare, and meet them ever alike;
When you are the anvil, bear - when the hammer, strike.”

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Interesting stats. I wonder what percentage of questions are answered, but are never marked correct? You guys know what I mean. :smile:

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Ah, that would be 20%. :slight_smile:

My definition of answered is that it has a checkmark, not just that someone gave an Answer. So although it might not seem that way (I know a lot people post a Question and never return or reply at all), but 80% of Questions are followed up on and given a checkmark by the poster, thus marking them as correct.

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On second thought… the percentage of Questions with no replies at all is 9% (I updated my post above). And obviously a person can’t checkmark no reply.

So that would mean that 11% of Questions did receive a reply, but the poster did not checkmark one of them as correct.

So not 20%, but 11% of Total Questions did not get a (possible) checkmark. Mea culpa…

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I answered one question so far. The guy even thanked me in a comment and then never marked it answered. :slight_smile:

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You got thanked? At least 20% of my Answers don’t even get a reply. :frowning:

And yeah, people new to the site, simply don’t know how it works. So it goes…

You could put a comment mentioning checkmarking, in the Question - if he ever comes back, he might notice the little blue envelope indicating he has a comment. :slight_smile: On second thought, no need - I just commented it for you (and upvoted the Answer). I’m not sure if you have enough reputation to comment someone else’s Question.

John C>
“For all your days, prepare, and meet them ever alike;
When you are the anvil, bear - when the hammer, strike.”

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I put this comment in the answer the same day he thanked me. Oh well, I tried.

Thanks for the vote!
Now I’m not one of those 1 pointers :slight_smile:

At first his question seemed bad because he had a typo in his code. But it was still broken and had an interesting answer for his waypoints problem.

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I voted you up to. Unity answers needs more people with some power (closing, editing, deleting questions) and knowledge. Now your 10 pts. closer. :wink:

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:slight_smile:

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Heh. Yeah, I saw your comment. What I didn’t really explain well is how the UnityAnswers notification system works (mostly it works poorly :slight_smile:

Unfortunately, UnityAnswers is based on the StackExchange 1.0 codebase, which is fairly old (and missing a lot of StackOverflow features). Here on UA, you only receive notification if one of your Questions/Answers is updated.

So because you added a comment to your own Answer, he would not get notification. Whereas adding a comment to his Question would send him a notification (turn the email icon blue). Assuming he ever logged back in, of course. If he logs in, he’ll be notified of my comment to his Question, but not your comment to your own Answer.

Basically, people only get notified of events that affect their own Q&A. Unfortunately. Hopefully this is clear. :slight_smile:

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Ah, OK.