**All the following numbers are as of today’s date (July 21st, 2015).**

We currently have a grand total of **1,593 undeleted questions tagged with [tag:identification-request]**. 

Of these, **1,246** were asked by their owners **as their first post**, and **1,212** were **tagged _exclusively_** with [tag:identification-request]<sup>1</sup>. 

This means that 347 of our currently undeleted questions tagged with [tag:identification-request] were asked by users who had previously contributed to the site in other tags. Furthermore, there were an additional 321 questions tagged with [tag:identification-request] which were first questions, and were subsequently deleted (11 of which had other tags too)<sup>2</sup>. 

To put it in percentages, approximately **76.1% of the undeleted [tag:identification-request] questions were a user’s first question** (tagged _only_ with [tag:identification-request]), which means: 

Approximately **20.4% of our total undeleted questions** were asked by **(1,212) users** that came here **to have an anime or manga identified for them**.

**Of the 1,212 users** whose first post was a (currently undeleted) [tag:identification-request] question:<sup>3</sup> 

- **820 (67.7%) were created at the exact same time the question was created** 
- 26 (2.2%) were created up to a minute before the question was created 
- 22 (1.8%) were created between 1 and 2 minutes before the question was created 
- 77 (6.4%) were created between 2 and 5 minutes before the question was created 
- 193 (16%) were created between 5 and 30 minutes before the question was created
- 22 (1.8%) were created between 30 minutes and 1 hour before the question was created 
- 11 (0.9%) were created between 1 hour and 1 day before the question was created 
- 7 (0.6%) were created between 1 day and 1 week before the question was created
- 27 (2.2%) were created over a week before the question was created

**Of the 1,212 users** whose first post was a (currently undeleted) [tag:identification-request] question:<sup>3</sup>

- **198 (16.3%) last accessed our site at the exact same time the question was created** 
- 158 (13.0%) last accessed our site after the question was posted and up to 1 hour after that 
- 45 (3.8%) last accessed our site between 1 and 2 hours after the question was posted 
- 52 (4.3%) last accessed our site between 2 and 5 hours after the question was posted 
- 149 (12.3%) last accessed our site between 5 hours and 1 day after the question was posted 
- 247 (20.4%) last accessed our site between 1 day and 1 week after the question was posted 
- 168 (13.9%) last accessed our site between 1 week and 1 month after the question was posted
- 188 (15.5%) last accessed our site over 1 month after the question was posted

Regarding the scores for these 1,212 question: 

- The **lowest** scored questions are at **-5**, and there are 4 of them 
- The **highest** scored question is at **26**, with the runner-up scoring 17
- The **average score is 2.5**
- The **median is 2**
- The **standard deviation is 3.1**
- The **sum for all the values is 2,987**

**Of the 1,212 users:**<sup>4</sup> 

- **1,014 (83.7%)** have **a single post** on our site 
- 121 (10%) have 2 posts on our site 
- 34 (2.8%) have 3 posts on our site 
- 10 (0.8%) have 4 posts on our site 
- 3 (0.3%) have 5 posts on our site 
- 5 (0.4%) have 6 posts on our site 
- 1 (0.1%) has 7 posts on our site 
- 1 (0.1%) has 8 posts on our site 
- 2 (0.2%) have 9 posts on our site 
- 1 (0.1%) has 10 posts on our site 
- 20 (1.7%) have more than 10 posts on our site 

The user whose first post was an identification request question and that has subsequently asked/answered the most questions has **77 answers and 5 questions**.

**Of the 310 _deleted_ questions** that were a user's first post, tagged only with [tag:identification-request]:

- **219 (70.5%) were removed by the system:**<sup>4</sup> <sup>5</sup>
  - **182 (83.1% of system removed, 58.7% of total**<sup>6</sup>**) of which were abandoned closed questions**
  - 29 (13.2% of system removed, 9.4% of total<sup>6</sup>) of which were dead questions
  - 4 (1.8% of system removed, 1.3% of total<sup>6</sup>) of which were removed along with the user<sup>7</sup>
  - 3 (1.4%) of system removed, 1% of total<sup>6</sup>) of which were stubs for migrated questions
  - 1 (0.5% of system removed, 0.3% of total<sup>6</sup>) of which were abandoned questions
- 58 (18.7%) were removed by moderators
- 31 (10%) were self-deleted
- 2 (0.7%) were removed via vote

**Of the 1,212 users** whose first post was a (currently undeleted) [tag:identification-request] question:<sup>4</sup>

- **1,112 (91.8%) don't have the informed badge**<sup>8</sup>
- 100 (8.3%) have the informed badge<sup>8</sup>

**Of the 310 users** whose first post was a currently deleted [tag:identification-request] question:<sup>4</sup>

- **290 (93.6%) don't have the informed badge**<sup>8</sup>
- 20 (6.5%) have the informed badge<sup>8</sup>



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<sup>1</sup> The 34 questions that had other tags will be discarded from here on, since I’m trying to find questions that were about identifying an anime or manga _for sure_, and not to identify a piece of music or a certain reference of some kind in other anime or manga.  

<sup>2</sup> I’ve discarded the deleted questions because some of them are spam or nonsense, so it would only create some noise on the rest of the numbers. As such, I decided to only take into consideration questions that have not been deleted as of this time.  

<sup>3</sup> Missing 7 users because these were deleted users, or users who didn’t have an account here an whose question was migrated here, etc.
  
<sup>4</sup> Percentages aren't exactly 100% due to rounding.

<sup>5</sup> See [this Meta post][1] for more info on what abandoned, abandoned closed and dead questions are.

<sup>6</sup> "Total" here meaning the 310 deleted questions that were a user's first post, tagged only with [tag:identification-request].

<sup>7</sup> Removed along with a user who had been just created to post that question, but then self-deleted their account.

<sup>8</sup> The informed badge is earned when users scroll through the [tour page][2]. Used here to try to understand how many of these users have actually tried to find out how our site works before asking a question. For reference, 684 (8.3%) of our total users have this badge — which means those users actually don't fall too far from the overall average.






[1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/92006/208518
[2]: http://anime.stackexchange.com/tour