In looking closely at the astonishingly wide variety of ways our users have chosen to represent themselves, we discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. For interested readers, I explain our measurement process, and how we collected our data, at the end of the post. All my bar charts are zeroed on the average picture. Now to the data.
Let your audience decide: Get to know your audience by letting them decide which questions, suggestions or ideas interest them most.
Everyone's voice is heard: The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate.
Be creative: Include people in your preparation for lectures, interviews and hard decisions or work together to organize feature requests and brainstorm new ideas
