Now that you mention it, I was somewhat curious. I ran the following simple query on both Super User and Stack Overflow to see how many users had edit permission (>= 2000 reputation): SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Users WHERE Users.Reputation >= 2000 Which returns 488 for Super User, and 18890 for Stack Overflow. As a percentage of total users (i.e. commenting out the `WHERE` clause in the above query), and repeating the query for Android SE while we're at it, we get: Super User: ( 488 / 136571) x 100% = 0.357% Stack Overflow: (18890 / 1582958) x 100% = 1.193% Android SE: ( 32 / 19260) x 100% = 0.166% Given these numbers, it appears as though Super User has roughly 3.3 times *less* editors as a percentage of all users on the site as compared to Stack Overflow. ---- I also thought it would be cool to evaluate the above based on number of questions; so below are two values, the first is total questions + answers divided by users, the second is questions + answers divided by number of users w/ edit permissions: Super User: (151k + 265k) / 136571 ~= 3.1 Posts/User (151k + 265k) / 488 ~= 852 Posts/User w/ Edit Perms Stack Overflow: (4.2m + 8m) / 1582958 ~= 7.7 Posts/User (4.2m + 8m) / 18890 ~= 646 Posts/User w/ Edit Perms Android SE: (11k + 16k) / 19260 ~= 1.4 Posts/User (11k + 16k) / 32 ~= 844 Posts/User w/ Edit Perms Thus, it looks as though Super User has more posts per user than Android.SE, with a similar number of posts per editors. This may indicate a higher volume per unit time on Super User. Stack Overflow has a significantly higher number of posts per user, but also has a proportionally higher number of editors, obtaining the lowest number of posts per editors.