Success of a Q&A forum depends on volume of content (questions and answers) and quality of content (are the questions asked relevant, answers provided correct etc). Community participation is essential to create and curate content. Since their inception in 2008, stack exchange based forums have been able to engage a large number of users to create a rich repository of good quality questions and answers. In this paper, we wish to investigate the “activeness” of users in the stackexchange network particularly from a perspective of content creation. We also attempt to measure how the forums' incentive mechanism has enabled user's activeness. Further, we investigate how user's have diffused to other parts of the stack exchange network over time, hence bootstrapping new forums.
[1]
Lena Mamykina,et al.
Design lessons from the fastest q&a site in the west
,
2011,
CHI.
[2]
Krzysztof Czarnecki,et al.
Towards improving bug tracking systems with game mechanisms
,
2012,
2012 9th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR).
[3]
J. Herbsleb,et al.
Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and Mozilla
,
2002,
TSEM.
[4]
Philippe A. Palanque,et al.
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
,
2014,
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
[5]
D HerbslebJames,et al.
Two case studies of open source software development
,
2002
.