Document (#43767)

Author

Geras, A.
Siudem, G.
Gagolewski, M.

Title

Time to vote : temporal clustering of user activity on Stack Overflow

Source

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 73(2022) no.12, S.1681-1691

Year

2022

Abstract

Question-and-answer (Q&A) sites improve access to information and ease transfer of knowledge. In recent years, they have grown in popularity and importance, enabling research on behavioral patterns of their users. We study the dynamics related to the casting of 7 M votes across a sample of 700 k posts on Stack Overflow, a large community of professional software developers. We employ log-Gaussian mixture modeling and Markov chains to formulate a simple yet elegant description of the considered phenomena. We indicate that the interevent times can naturally be clustered into 3 typical time scales: those which occur within hours, weeks, and months and show how the events become rarer and rarer as time passes. It turns out that the posts' popularity in a short period after publication is a weak predictor of its overall success, contrary to what was observed, for example, in case of YouTube clips. Nonetheless, the sleeping beauties sometimes awake and can receive bursts of votes following each other relatively quickly.

Content

https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24658.

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