Karma could be relevant to the question of whether EA Forum content has been declining in quality (or not), and how this relates to quantity (number of posts). Besides the mean karma of the posts published in a given month, it would also be interesting to know the distribution (e.g. 10th and 90th percentile).
Subscribers to the EA Forum Digest would be relevant as a measure of the growth (or lack thereof) of EA Forum.
more that generally having this sort of data available to people would be nice
I had this in mind too. I do not know how much making the above available to the public would be useful, but in general lean towards thinking that more transparency is good. However, depending on how much effort is required to make that sort of data public, it might not be worth it.
Thanks for the reply, Angelina!
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Karma could be relevant to the question of whether EA Forum content has been declining in quality (or not), and how this relates to quantity (number of posts). Besides the mean karma of the posts published in a given month, it would also be interesting to know the distribution (e.g. 10th and 90th percentile).
Subscribers to the EA Forum Digest would be relevant as a measure of the growth (or lack thereof) of EA Forum.
I had this in mind too. I do not know how much making the above available to the public would be useful, but in general lean towards thinking that more transparency is good. However, depending on how much effort is required to make that sort of data public, it might not be worth it.