Title :
One-Day Flies on StackOverflow - Why the Vast Majority of StackOverflow Users Only Posts Once
Author :
Slag, Rogier ; de Waard, Mike ; Bacchelli, Alberto
Author_Institution :
Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands
Abstract :
Stack Overflow (SO) is a popular question and answers (Q&A) platform related to software development. An interesting characteristic of SO is that about half of its users makes only one contribution to the platform in total. In this work, we study this group of users, which we call one-day flies, and we investigate why they do not continue to contribute to the platform. By achieving this understanding we can find ways to enable users to become more active.
Keywords :
Web sites; question answering (information retrieval); software engineering; Q&A platform; SO; StackOverflow; one-day flies; question and answer platform; software development; Communities; Data mining; Databases; Market research; Negative feedback; Software; Standards; one-day flies; stack overflow; user analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
Florence
DOI :
10.1109/MSR.2015.63
