I adapted some Data Explorer queries to compare our post scores with our peers (questions and answers): see plots below.
I included posts created since 2019 (i.e., in 2019 or in 2020 up to the last Data Explorer update).
I chose non-English language sites which have accumulated 1000+ questions within this time frame. Namely
- Japanese.SE (4326 Qs; 5037 As),
- German.SE (2333 Qs; 5235 As),
- French.SE (2153 Qs; 4455 As),
- Chinese.SE (1815 Qs; 4261 As),
- Spanish.SE (1481 Qs; 2764 As), and
- Latin.SE (1181 Qs; 1918 As).
These numbers are striking. Either we're (a) failing to vote, or (b) voting appropriately but attracting un-vote-worthy ("meh") posts. Or maybe a bit of both.
I repeat the plea... please Vote Early, Vote Often!
Both upvotes and downvotes are needed. Please strive to make this a place where people want to contribute high-quality posts; we need to stop people thinking
pfft, it's not worth the effort of writing a high-quality post, it won't get upvoted anyway,
and get them thinking
wow, if I put in more effort, I'll get more upvotes.
Below are the plots. We can see e.g. 29.81% of questions here have a score of 1, and 32.34% of answers here have a score of 1.
While I'm looking, there's some other statistics:
- Number of 0-score questions here: 25.12%. Our peers: ≤15.53% (next highest: Japanese.SE).
- Number of 0-score answers here: 23.45%. Our peers: ≤15.23% (next highest: Spanish.SE).
And with regards to badges (all time):
Question Answer
Nice Good Great Nice Good Great
Japanese.SE 1910 180 4 2488 218 6 [21909 Qs]
German.SE 1828 167 1 3432 373 2 [13588 Qs]
French.SE 951 83 0 1378 95 0 [10241 Qs]
Chinese.SE 376 32 1 606 23 0 [8240 Qs] <-----
Spanish.SE 493 41 0 872 48 0 [7537 Qs]
Latin.SE 628 33 0 650 32 1 [3732 Qs]
Again, we see we're significantly behind our peers. (I previously compared some basic site statistics back in November 2019; it was just as alarming back then.)
