Rethinking Community Vitality: Why Posts + Comments per Month Trumps MAU

CoderSupreme@programming.dev · edit-2 10 days ago

I agree, but that might complicate things. Instead of votes we could also use time spent reading posts as the engagement metric.

How about something like this?

Quality Engagement Score (QES)

QES = (PCM * AVU) / MAU, where:

PCM = Posts + Comments per Month
AVU = Average Votes per User (total monthly upvotes / MAU)
MAU = Monthly Active Users

PCM measures raw activity, while AVU factors in community approval.

CoderSupreme@programming.dev · edit-2 15 days ago

I appreciate your perspective, but my focus is on enhancing our measurement of community activity; if you have a more effective metric in mind, I’d love to hear it instead of just pointing out flaws.

CoderSupreme@programming.dev · edit-2 15 days ago

Rethinking Community Vitality: Why Posts + Comments per Month Trumps MAU

CoderSupreme@programming.dev · 17 days ago

There are 16M comments per day according to the observer website.

CoderSupreme@programming.dev · edit-2 17 days ago

30k communities and 9M posts by day. I find the number of posts by day very hard to believe. Each community would have an average of 300 posts by day and most communities are abandoned, maybe its the bot communities that repost all the Reddit posts that gets the number so high.