A lot of progress has been made, but we're not there, yet.

In the one month since we've had access to the data, we've barely made a dent in the distribution of avid users among reputation tiers (the "Grace Note query").

There is still a massive backlog of users who are still suffering from the historical effects of low voter participation. Even with the recent voting campaign, we seem to be promoting as many users into the ≥ 150-point tier as we are graduating into the upper tiers.

We're excited to have increased the ranks of our ≥ 10k users to six members. While we're focused on that figure, though, keep in mind that under the standard point scale for graduated sites, 10k points only grants access to moderator tools. It takes 15k points to be able to protect questions, and 20k points to be a full trusted user. (We're getting extremely close to having our first 20k user!)

Despite the effort to increase voting, I'm afraid that much of the voting is done by a dedicated group of supporters. Before we say that we're there, I'd like to see evidence of deep cultural change in voting patterns. (There's probably a Data Explorer query coming up to track the voting patterns!)

A lot of progress has been made, but we're not there, yet.

In the one month since we've had access to the data, we've barely made a dent in the distribution of avid users among reputation tiers (the "Grace Note query").

There is still a massive backlog of users who are still suffering from the historical effects of low voter participation. Even with the recent voting campaign, we seem to be promoting as many users into the ≥ 150-point tier as we are graduating into the upper tiers.

We're excited to have increased the ranks of our ≥ 10k users to six members. While we're focused on that figure, though, keep in mind that under the standard point scale for graduated sites, 10k points only grants access to moderator tools. It takes 15k points to be able to protect questions, and 20k points to be a full trusted user. (We're getting extremely close to having our first 20k user!)

Despite the effort to increase voting, I'm afraid that much of the voting is done by a dedicated group of supporters. Before we say that we're there, I'd like to see evidence of deep cultural change in voting patterns. (There's probably a Data Explorer query coming up to track the voting patterns!)