Comment by zahlman

> Your site score came to mean something -- I once had a hiring CTO say "Oh you have some popular answers on the techs we use"

This was a bad idea, and worked terribly.

I have over 1800 answers on the site, many of them detailed, well-considered, long answers to difficult problems. But my highest rated answer by far was to someone asking two completely different questions at once (both of which have far better individual versions) in a way that was barely comprehensible even after multiple attempts by the community to rewrite in something approximating proper English.

For reference, the original version, verbatim:

> if I have list of numbers as [1,2,3,4,5...........etc ] and I want to calculate as that (2+1)/2 and for the second (2+3)/2 third (3+4)/2 ...... etc

> how can do as that ? like sum the first point with the second and divide it by 2 .. then sum the second with third point then divide it by 2 .... etc ?

> also how can i sum a list of number ? a = [1,2,3,4,5,......ect ]

> is it:

> b = sum(a) print b

> in i get one number !? it doesn't work with me help me plz