# Participation for the main site

When we are in meta and we click on user, we can sort them by participation. According to the description, it measures the activity.

I suggest to make something similar for the main site, for example based on the total activity (answers, comments, edits, asked questions, reviews). We could for example display that in a disk with colors associated with each kind of activity. Then the existing section "Editors" will be contained in "Activity", like the other types.

"Activity" as defined before is, to my mind, like reputation, a good way to have an idea about the contribution of an user to the site.

What do you think?

• Could be interesting! What kind of weights should we have for each type of activity? A percentage figure (in comparison to the highest number) for each type of activity? – Jyrki Lahtonen Apr 2 '13 at 17:43
• @JyrkiLahtonen Yes for example (with the total number of actions). – Davide Giraudo Apr 2 '13 at 17:53
• Why would we want to do this? – Chris Eagle Apr 2 '13 at 18:03
• @Chris: Curiosity? – Jyrki Lahtonen Apr 2 '13 at 18:03
• @ChrisEagle Curiosity, like for reputation, editors, voters, etc... – Davide Giraudo Apr 2 '13 at 18:07
• How is "activity" measured on meta? I always assumed it was just using the secret meta reputation count, so on the main site would just agree with reputation. – Noah Snyder Apr 13 '13 at 15:18
• @NoahSnyder: Indeed, it would be good to know. – Davide Giraudo Apr 16 '13 at 17:20
• @NoahSnyder No, it's not the hidden rep counter. Hovering over the word participation brings up the text "Users most active on this site in the last 60 days (combined number of posts, votes, comments and edits)". Meta.SO source – 75064 May 5 '13 at 2:58

The link to list of users ordered by participation is http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/users?tab=participation: http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/users?tab=participation
If you simply remove meta. part from the URL, you get this list: https://math.stackexchange.com/users?tab=participation