Characterizing Growth and Decline in Online UX Communities

Chen, Gillian; Mok, Lillio

doi:10.1145/3411763.3451646

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“…Reddit (27) showed that the Reddit community grows faster, while SE becomes less diverse and active over time. Special attention was paid to the activities of individual users.…”

Section: Modular the Comparison Of Ux Community In Se Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability of Stack Exchange Q\&A communities: the role of trust

Vranić¹,

Tomašević²,

Alorić³

et al. 2022

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Knowledge-sharing communities are a fundamental element of any knowledge-based society. Understanding how they emerge, function, and disappear is thus of crucial importance. Many social and economic factors influence sustainable knowledge-sharing communities. Here we explore the role of the structure of social interactions and social trust in the emergence of these communities. Using tools from complex network theory, we analyze the early evolution of social structure in four pairs of StackExchange communities, each corresponding to one active and one closed community on the same topic. We adapt the dynamical reputation model to quantify the evolution of social trust in these communities. Our analysis shows that active communities have higher local cohesiveness and develop stable and more strongly connected cores. The average reputation is higher in sustainable communities. In these communities, the trust between core members develops early and remains high over time. Our results imply that efforts to create a stable and trustworthy core may be crucial for building a sustainable knowledge-sharing community.

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“…Reddit (27) showed that the Reddit community grows faster, while SE becomes less diverse and active over time. Special attention was paid to the activities of individual users.…”

Section: Modular the Comparison Of Ux Community In Se Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability of Stack Exchange Q\&A communities: the role of trust

Vranić¹,

Tomašević²,

Alorić³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Connecting Twitter With Scholarly Networks: Exploring HCI Scholars’ Interactions From an SNA Approach

Hsu

Lin

Yueh

2022

IEEE Trans. Profess. Commun.

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Sustainability of Stack Exchange Q&A communities: the role of trust

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Knowledge-sharing communities are fundamental elements of a knowledge-based society. Understanding how different factors influence their sustainability is of crucial importance. We explore the role of the social network structure and social trust in their sustainability. We analyze the early evolution of social networks in four pairs of active and closed Stack Exchange communities on topics of physics, astronomy, economics, and literature and use a dynamical reputation model to quantify the evolution of social trust in them. In addition, we study the evolution of two active communities on mathematics topics and two closed communities about startups and compare them with our main results. Active communities have higher local cohesiveness and develop stable, better-connected, trustworthy cores. The early emergence of a stable and trustworthy core may be crucial for sustainable knowledge-sharing communities.

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Characterizing Growth and Decline in Online UX Communities

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

Sustainability of Stack Exchange Q\&A communities: the role of trust

Sustainability of Stack Exchange Q\&A communities: the role of trust

Connecting Twitter With Scholarly Networks: Exploring HCI Scholars’ Interactions From an SNA Approach

Sustainability of Stack Exchange Q&A communities: the role of trust

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