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Stack Overflow: Down Votes vs. Up Votes vs. Reputation

Where do the 'personalities' and 'forces' of Stack Overflow reside in a three dimentional plot of Down Votes, Up Votes and Reputation scores?
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My fascination with up and down voting patterns persists.  Below are some statistics and a graph derived from asking the data "How do the top 1000 Stack Overflow users relate to each other with regards to up votes and down votes?"  Some results:

  • Random statistics on all users (not top 1000)
    • Only 278 of SOpedians have voted down more than 100 times
    • A puny 121 have down voted more than up voted
    • A mere 11 have down voted more than 500 times
  • Mr. Down Voter: Rich B  (.52 Up votes for every down vote)
    • 1796 Down
    • 932 Up
  • Mr. Up Voter: JB King (298 Up vs. Down)
    • 15 Down
    • 4474 Up
  • Mr. Even Handed: (There are two)
  • Other Personalities
Stack Overflow Badges: Reputation versus Up Votes versus Down Votes

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Notes on the above graph:
  • The x-axis is Down Votes,
  • the y-axis is Up Votes, and
  • the z-axis (bubble size) is Reputation Score
  • The x-axis and y-axis are not proportional, meaning if one were to draw a line from the orgin at a 45° angle, that line would not represent a 1:1 x:y relationship
Impressions and Analysis:
  • By and large, the Top 10 SOpedians are more likely to vote up than top 1000
  • By and large, everybody in the top 1000 is more likely to vote up than down
  • Joel Spolsky doesn't vote so much, relative to Jeff Atwood--they are the public faces of stackoverflow


Re: Stack Overflow: Down Votes vs. Up Votes vs. Reputation

Great graph; but are you sure you haven't mislabelled Jon? (perhaps double-check?)

Re: Stack Overflow: Down Votes vs. Up Votes vs. Reputation

Oops, my bad!  Sorry about that.  Fixed here and on meta.stackoverflow.com

Stu

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