Fun Forum Stat - Answer Rate

What's interesting about the new MSDN Forums is that we can track a true answer rate as opposed to simply the response rate in the newsgroups or other web forum system. It allows contributors to focus on unanswered questions for each forum or for the system as a whole.

Just looking at the stats available on the forum site yesterday I noticed that over 1074 threads have been started.  I'm sure most of them were tagged as "questions" given the default.  However, there are only 83 threads marked as "unanswered" questions.  This is a 93% answer rate!  And most of these were asked in the last 3 days.

I know that MS moderators are doing some answer marking ( I can probably account for 20-30 :-) ) , but I don't think they are doing that much. I'm probably the high tagger at the moment.  I'm pretty impressed. I think people are starting to catch on to the whole "Mark as Answer" concept and I don't think we've come close to critical mass yet for self sustaining Q & A.

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 14, 2005
  I've been persistently top or in the top few for posting in the last three days, and have to say it's a nice place to find interesting problems - although at the moment the number of people answering is much higher than the number asking questions, so some of those answering will leave unless the rate of questions increases.

• Anonymous
  April 15, 2005
  This is a problem I wanted to have. :-) I think the # of questions will start going up very soon since Beta 2 will be pointing everyone there.

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