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Q&A How does displaying users in the "users" tab work?

But I was surprised to see that most of those users were all 1 point users with very generic looking profiles. I expected older users to be the ones with more points. Isn't that the case? I also ch...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Olin Lathrop‭ · 2023-06-10T16:02:19Z (over 1 year ago)
<blockquote>But I was surprised to see that most of those users were all 1 point users with very generic looking profiles. I expected older users to be the ones with more points. Isn't that the case? I also checked out the software development community and electrical engineering community and sorted the user list by age, and here the users accounts seemed to look more logical, in that the older users had more points, had profile pictures, seemed to have a real name and some of then were also staff. Total number of users also seemed to be less (less number of pages on the user search page)</blockquote>

Early on, some communities were started by importing content from another site.  Outdoors is one of those.  As a result there are a lot of "dead" users that show up in the user list because a question or answer of theirs was copied to here.  In contrast, the Electrical Engineering site deliberately started from scratch here.  It therefore has fewer users in the list, but the ones it does have are "real" users that took some action here.