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Activity-selection Behavior of Users in StackExchange Websites

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Anamika Chhabra,

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WWW '20: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3366424.3382720

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In this work, we examine the disparity in contribution behavior of users with respect to the activities that they choose to perform on Q&A websites. We collect the data of 156 websites of StackExchange and analyze the contribution made by over 5.3 million users. We find that most of the users tend to contribute predominantly to one of the primary activities. Such a behavior yields a high-level distribution of users across the activities, which provides useful insights into the user base composition of these websites. In this work, we show how this distribution varies for StackExchange websites and discuss how it can be a valuable maintenance parameter for these websites.

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WWW '20: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2020

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ISBN:9781450370240

DOI:10.1145/3366424

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Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni
Sorbonne University, France
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Gita Sukthankar
University of Central Florida, United States
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Tie-Yan Liu
Microsoft Research Asia, China
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Maarten van Steen
University of Twente, Netherlands

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Vranić ATomašević AAlorić AMitrović Dankulov M(2023)Sustainability of Stack Exchange Q&A communities: the role of trustEPJ Data Science10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00381-x12:1Online publication date: 24-Feb-2023
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00381-x
Chhabra AIyengar SSaini JMalik V(2021)Analysis and Modeling of Activity-Selection Behavior in Collaborative Knowledge-BuildingTransactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXXVI10.1007/978-3-662-64563-5_7(116-160)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64563-5_7
Chhabra AIyengar SSaini JMalik V(2020)Activity-selection Behavior and Optimal User-distribution in Q&A WebsitesComputational Collective Intelligence10.1007/978-3-030-63007-2_67(853-865)Online publication date: 23-Nov-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63007-2_67

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