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Questions tagged [people-reached]

"People Reached" is the count of views of pages where your helpful posts had some decent probability of being seen. It is shown in the User Profile under the heading 'IMPACT'.

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Why is the Community user's reach infinity?

Why does the Community user's profile have infinity in its "reached" section? It's definitely not a number. This is how it looks like:
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View "people reached" data/trend through time for user

Is there a way to view a trend (graphically or tabulated) in the number of "people reached" per user per site? E.g., to see how many people a user's posts impacted monthly or annually, etc. ...
theforestecologist's user avatar
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Inconsistent vertical spacing to tooltip on impact block [duplicate]

There's an inconsistency with vectical space for tooltips in impact block of profile page: Helpful flags tooltip looks generally correct: But others have much more vertical space as expected between ...
αλεχολυτ's user avatar
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What does the "reached" property mean on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]

If you go on my profile you will see that I have "reached" 703k: First I thought it was the number of persons who: saw an answer of me saw a question of me or an edit I made on a question ...
Lenny4's user avatar
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My people reached count decreased from 250k to 11k

I have used Stack Overflow for the last two months. One week ago, I had a 250k "people reached" count shown on my profile. Suddenly, it decreased and it shows 11k people reached. I don't ...
Dipak Ramoliya's user avatar
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If you answer your own question will you be credited once or twice for the "people reached" statistics in your profile?

I found an answer explaining how the "people reached" statistics is populated in the Stats box in the Profile tab. Basically, if your answer qualifies, you will be credited the # of views ...
GratefulDisciple's user avatar
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Is there is any benefit/privileges for increasing impact/people reached? Why is it counted?

If I earn 20k rep I will be a trusted user, and for 25k rep I can get access to site analytics. What about impact/people reached? If there's no benefit, why is it counted?
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Do edits increase the number of people reached by a user?

Let's say I edited some questions and answers which required edits. Do the new visits, from then on, increase MY (the editor) impact (i.e., the number of people reached)?
Joshua Varghese's user avatar
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How multiple answers by one user on same question impact on People Reached

EDIT We're working on a new stat to help convey the reach of your posts here discuss the Big Question #1: Do you have any suggested tweaks to improve the calculation method? Big Question #2: What's a ...
Romil Patel's user avatar
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When viewing own profile in mobile theme, "People Reached" showing even when empty

Using the mobile version of the website in Chrome. In some of the communities, when going to my profile, can read "People Reached" tells you how many people found your posts here while searching ...
Tiago Peres's user avatar
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How accurate is the "people reached" counter?

I have a kind of relatively high number for "people reached" (3.5 million) on my Stack Overflow account and I'm just kind of wondering what that really means. Is it the sum of the view counters on all ...
temporary_user_name's user avatar
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What's the formula for the "impact" figure on my user profile page?

How does Stack Overflow calculate the number "impacted", for the impact figure at the top of the user page on each site? I know there's an explanatory comment, but it's kind of general and vague....
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Is the total impact of an user's combined accounts visible somewhere or can it be queried in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer? [duplicate]

Is the total impact of an user's combined SE accounts visible somewhere or can it be queried in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer?
Pablo's user avatar
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Badges for impact [duplicate]

In the profile page there is a section where it displays the impact of a user. What is the use of this section other than... showing a number? I propose making this stat at least somewhat useful by ...
54D's user avatar
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Showing wrong impact count (people reached) 204k in my profile?

On Database Administrator Stack Exchange I have given only one answer at that time the question was already viewed by more than 100K (approx) people then I have added my answer so the total impact ...
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