• DocumentCode
    731528
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    16-17 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    458
  • Lastpage
    461
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Florence
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSR.2015.63
  • Filename
    7180117
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=731528