Abundance of user contributions does not necessarily indicate sustainability of an online community. On the contrary, excessive contributions in the systems may result in “inform...
Abundance of user contributions does not necessarily indicate sustainability of an online community. On the contrary, excessive contributions in the systems may result in informati...
This paper presents the first comprehensive exploration of the largest Chinese online knowledge sharing communityBaidu Knows. With analyzing 5.2 millions questions and 2.7 million...
Online communities have something in common: their success rise and fall with the participation rate of active users. In this paper we focus on social rewarding mechanisms that gen...
A hard challenge facing developers of online communities is attaining a critical mass of members and subsequently sustaining their participation. We propose a new mechanism for mot...