<p>About the suggested milestone #2 we reached it in july/2017 (see <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/users?page=2&amp;tab=reputation&amp;filter=all">here</a>). It is an indicative that people are voting and it is good to have more people around who able to answer questions.</p>

<p>However, the proportion of unanswered questions is growing faster than the ones which do get answers. We agree a significant part of the former group are the type of poor quality, off-topic, uncler, broad, opinion-based and duplicates (some references: <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4477/my-questions-dont-get-an-answer-is-it-a-general-trend-or-am-i-doing-somethin/4478#4478">here</a> and <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4901/2017-moderator-election-qa-questionnaire">here</a>).</p>

<p>If I would answer this question today, I'd say a milestone would be somehow to reduce the number of unanswered questions by being more effective towards questions which should be put on hold/closed/deleted. This could be achieved in many ways, such as going from improvements in the SE system bot which automatically deletes poor posts; having more 3k reputation users who are able to cast close/reopen votes; giving more incentive to users to find duplicates (for <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/274353/reward-3k-reputation-users-for-finding-duplicates">example</a>); and also having current 3k users to be less tolerant with poor questions (including questions from new users) and quickly put those on hold, independent if a custom comment will be posted or not. It is time to rely more on our default close-reason messages (they can be improved if needed) plus the extended documentation built on CV Meta along past years; and put more weight on the OP's shoulders about the responsibility of learning how the site works and come back to improve their questions if they can.</p>

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<p>1- One milestone I think we could be proud of:</p>

<ul>
<li>the respectful environment we have been keeping on Cross Validated SE;</li>
</ul>

<p>Merits to all community, but specially for the high quality level we have on our moderation team;</p>

<p>2- Milestones yet to reach are difficult to say, but what about: </p>

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<li><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/users?tab=Reputation&amp;filter=all">two pages of users</a> with 10K reputation;</li>
</ul>

<p>For example,</p>

<p>Mathematics SE has 190 10k reputation users (1068 questions by 10k user).<br>
We have 22 10k reputation users (1318 questions by each 10k user).</p>

<p>I think this milestone is important because it brings us more independence as a group.<br>
It is also a consequence of having many users participating and voting.</p>
