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Yes! Very often I come across something with a lot of traffic and I'm unable to find where it is coming from. Sometimes it's obvious if it's on Reddit or HN, but most of the time, I'm left guessing.
– Mysticial
Commented Apr 16, 2015 at 23:18
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Shouldn't the OP answer with that himself?
– Anthony Pham
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 0:19
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As I commented on the main post: "I think it's a bad idea to bind useful and harmless features to only a subset of users. The 1k reputation requirement for observing vote counts is extremely annoying on sites where I am not registered or don't have sufficient reputation. Is there any reason why the site analytics should not be a completely public feature?"
– corsair992
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 0:45
@corsair992 if I recall correctly, the privilege was put in place because it costs too much on server side, and most (like ~50%) of users are under 1k. You wouldn't give metal pipes to monkeys around your car, will you?
– Braiam
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 3:26
@Braiam: Then the system is badly implemented, and should have been optimized to retain this data along with the aggregated total. A badly optimized system should inspire optimization, not patching.
– corsair992
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 3:41
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@Braiam Jeff Atwood made a lot of excuses like that, many of which were unfounded. I trust that Stack Exchange's engineers could make it work without much difficulty, if they wanted to, but now it's a thing the way it is.
– Jeremy
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 5:49
@PythonMaster I'm guessing Jon didn't want to post it himself to prevent it from having an unfair FGITW advantage? Regardless, I've asked him in chat before posting, and he said it was fine by him.
– Madara's Ghost
Commented Apr 17, 2015 at 11:32
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I think it's a bit silly to have official statistics for high-rep users and (inevitable) meta posts linking to analogous SEDE queries for the rabble. Being transparent even to low-rep users will help address charges of elitism and may get curious users interested in community moderation.
– Jeffrey Bosboom
Commented Jun 17, 2015 at 3:08
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@corsair992, there is a Greasemonkey script which lets you see vote counts no matter what your rep is. See stackapps.com/questions/3082/view-vote-totals-without-1000-rep
– Jonas Czech
Commented Sep 15, 2015 at 19:12
@JonasCz: Thanks, I was aware of the script, and already have the Chrome extension installed.
– corsair992
Commented Sep 15, 2015 at 19:13

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