The graphs below are from a real polis conversation and illustrate an important point. Polis engages lurkers - users who don't engage if their sole option is to write a comment.
This graph shows participation rates across three segments:
- Users who loaded the page
- Users who wrote and submitted a comment
- Users who clicked agree and disagree at least once
~1% of users commented. ~25% of users voted.
The graph above begs a question: of those who voted, how much did they vote? The next graph gives us insight in to that. People vote a lot!
The light gray bars denote users who voted less than 7 times. These users are not included in the statistical computation or the visualization, because of a lack of data for them.
How many votes were cast, and when?
How does that compare to the number of comments submitted? In this conversation, there were ~250x more votes than comments!
