Yesterday on StackOverflow, I came across one of those users that kept asking questions, but didn’t really seem to understand much of the responses. Looking at his profile, it turned out he had asked over a hundred questions, but contributed less than ten answers. I won’t be tempted to start about his capabilities of actually answering any SO questions (although his understanding of other’s answers to his own questions, except when he was able to copy-paste someone’s source code, also didn’t seem to be that great), but it did get me thinking about what a ‘common’ ratio of questions versus answers would be for other SO users (personally, I’m at 1/85 right now). Of course, that triggered my data-analysis and graphing gene…

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