^^^ folks, I think above feature request may be worth escalating via status-review. For quite a while I thought it was just an unimportant theoretical exercise of Atwood, mind games and such. Changed my mind recently when I figured that having more reliable and explicit way to estimate user participation at main and meta could have helped to avoid harmful theories like one about 0.015% (https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/343839).
Another angle (though more from a company perspective) is, when I learned about new users spike caused by dark mode I thought, maybe proposed "citizenship level" cou…