Re: the ratio The ratio isn’t obviously bad to me, depending on your expectation? Between the beginning of the review on Dec 8th and Jan 3rd [1] then there’s been 199 posts (excluding question posts but not excluding link posts), but of those:
− 149 post written by 66 users with over 100 karma
- 95 written by 33 users above 1000 karma (the most relevant comparison)
- 151 posts written by 75 people whose account was first active before 2019.
Compare those with the 82 reviews by 32 reviewers, it’s a ratio of reviews:posts between 1:1 and 1:2. I’m curious if you’d been expecting something much different. [ETA: because of the incomplete data you might want to say 120 posts vs 82 reviews which is 1:1.5.]
Re: the effort It’s not clear to me that the effort involved means you should expect more reviews: 1) I think the Cost-Benefit Ratio for posts is higher even if they take longer, 2) reviewing a post only happens if you’ve read the post and it impacted you enough to remember and feel motivated to say stuff about, 3) when I write posts, it’s about something I’ve been thinking about and am excited about; I haven’t developed any habit around being excited about reviews since I’m not used to it.
[1] That’s when I last pulled that particular data onto my machine and I’m being a bit lazy because 8 more days it isn’t going to change the overall picture; though it means the relative numbers are a bit worse for reviews.
Re: the ratio
The ratio isn’t obviously bad to me, depending on your expectation? Between the beginning of the review on Dec 8th and Jan 3rd [1] then there’s been 199 posts (excluding question posts but not excluding link posts), but of those:
− 149 post written by 66 users with over 100 karma
- 95 written by 33 users above 1000 karma (the most relevant comparison)
- 151 posts written by 75 people whose account was first active before 2019.
Compare those with the 82 reviews by 32 reviewers, it’s a ratio of reviews:posts between 1:1 and 1:2.
I’m curious if you’d been expecting something much different. [ETA: because of the incomplete data you might want to say 120 posts vs 82 reviews which is 1:1.5.]
Re: the effort
It’s not clear to me that the effort involved means you should expect more reviews: 1) I think the Cost-Benefit Ratio for posts is higher even if they take longer, 2) reviewing a post only happens if you’ve read the post and it impacted you enough to remember and feel motivated to say stuff about, 3) when I write posts, it’s about something I’ve been thinking about and am excited about; I haven’t developed any habit around being excited about reviews since I’m not used to it.
[1] That’s when I last pulled that particular data onto my machine and I’m being a bit lazy because 8 more days it isn’t going to change the overall picture; though it means the relative numbers are a bit worse for reviews.