Notice I get a far lower percentage of up votes than many of the others here. Only 0.67%. But I don't take that as a reflection on the quality of the answers.
Here they are again with the top stories and numbers of views for each one:
For some reason the answers I write get few upvotes, but I often get enthusiastic comments from the people who do upvote them, and that encourages me to keep answering.
My second most popular answer for instance is this one:
Only 0.26% of those who view it have upvoted. And only one share. Since I shared it to my own timeline on facebook, that means that nobody else has ever shared it out of the 240,000 people who read the answer.
But if you look at the answers, several people say what a great answer it is.
Robert Walker's answer to What are the chances of Asteroid 2012 TT5 hitting the Earth on September 24, 2015?
And I think it is a good answer myself also. It is the best that I could write on this topic at any rate. And it's obviously helping some people who were scared about asteroid impacts. What more could you ask for :).
So, please, if you are a quora answerer and get a lower percentage of upvotes than most - don't feel it reflects on your answers.
Some answers, for some reason, just don't get many upvotes. I don't know why or what the pattern is. And frankly, I don't care either :). I don't think the answers I did with highest percentage of upvotes are the best. Just write the best answers I can, and then often get questions, discussions, corrections etc to improve them in the comments. The upvotes are nice as feedback that some people upvoted your answer, a bit like facebook likes, but as for getting into numbers and percentages, at least on my experience of my own answers, I don't think they mean much.
I'll just continue writing the answers so long as I feel that there are people who find them helpful.
About the Author
Robert Walker
Writer of articles on Mars and Space issues - Software Developer of Tune Smithy, Bounce Metronome etc.Studied at Wolfson College, Oxford
Lives in Isle of Mull
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