> And if you cast votes at certain thresholds (like quantiles)

> Please explain that a bit more. I keep thinking i know what you mean, but i don't.

Prerequisites:

Normally I don't know how many votes your posts got, because I am LanX and not chacham and havent voted on all your writeups.

Approach

• I can order your writeups by votes and I (normally) see immediately the reply level by parsing the /Re:^(\d+)/ part
• After voting at the middle of the 863 entries list at position 430 I see how many votes you got there +1 (here 4)
• All following posts in this ordering have less or equal votes which is in a narrow margin (here <=4)
• After voting at the middle of the upper list at position 215 I see how many votes you got there +1 (here <=7)
• that means all posts between 215 and 430 have 4<=x<=8 votes
• repeat these upper steps for 12.5%, 6.75%, ... and so on (here position 107 53 26 13 7 ...)
• you get a logarithmic scale with narrow margins of votes

Result

Now you can pretty well approximate how many votes someone got for different reply levels

For instance between 7th and 15th writeup there is only one level 2 post so you get @levelcount= (3, 4, 1) with votes 26<=x<=30

Consequence

You get a very good approximation of votes per level for one user after only casting votes on 1% of his writeups.

Additionally you can also approximate the percentage of XP he got by votes cast by himself.

Clearer now? :)

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