when I call the /users
path, like:
/docs/users-by-ids#&ids=1&site=stackoverflow
In the reply, I get a field called accept_rate
.
What is that field about?
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path, like:
/docs/users-by-ids#&ids=1&site=stackoverflow
In the reply, I get a field called accept_rate
.
What is that field about?
accept_rate
is the internally tracked value of the user's Accept Rate. This is roughly a measure of how many of the user's questions have answers and where one of the answers was accepted by the user.
For the actual details of how it's calculated, read the blog post announcing accept rate. In a nutshell:
Also note that "the community" decided not to publicly display the accept rate as of January, 2013.