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Average and median have little meaning when most accounts never make any content.

We can compare to stackoverflow that probably has similar economics.

- There are 15.236M accounts on stack overflow.

- Only 4.046M accounts have more than one reputation, that's equivalent to one answer or two.

- 1.095M accounts have more than 1000 reputation. That was very easy if you started in the first few years of stack overflow, or is quite a bit of participation nowadays.

- 0.232M accounts have more than 2000 reputation.

Main take away, you can be top 26% percentile for posting a single answer or question.



Sheesh that abuse of powers of ten notation. Is this common?


I don't see any powers of ten notation? And using the same unit for all the account numbers is a very good thing.


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