Would you value seeing the percentile rank for select statistics in your profile?
For example, I am currently #41 in points, in terms of total users (~22,500?), the top 1 percent. I am #1346 in questions asked, or in the top 6 percent. These metrics could also be included as part of the current dashboard.
Would you find these types of measures interesting and useful? Why, or why not?
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You might be in the top 1% for questions answered by all people who ever created an account, but is that really relevant? A lof of people will have little or no activity ever. Some people will have a lot activity for a while, and then cease to participate. Should they still be counted in percentile stats?
Anyone who participates enough to care about their stats is likely to be in top 2-3% on everything, and it's probably not very informative to know if you're in top 1.4% or the top 2.2%.
But I would be interested in seeing stats on how active the system is. For example how many users had any activity at all in the last day, week and month.
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Good point @philipy. I am just looking for metrics that are more interesting and potentially meaningful than absolute numbers. As more and more members reach brown belt and black belt status, the absolute numbers are going to be irrelevant. I thought that a percentile measure would help to somehow differentiate between members within a belt color.
Maybe that is the answer. Instead of percentile of all users, it could be your ranking within the belt color?
I'm just brainstorming here and appreciate anyone's input.
It would maybe be interesting to see as stats:
- Number of days for which the person has been a member
- Number of days for which the person had any activity
Then one could look at things like answers per day of activity.
Ranking within belt color could be interesting too.