One-day flies on StackOverflow

Why the vast majority of StackOverflow users only posts once

This talk was part of the MSR Challenge conference, 2015. http://2015.msrconf.org/

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1. One-day flies on StackOverflow Why the vast majority of StackOverflow users only posts once Rogier Slag Mike de Waard Alberto Bacchelli Delft University of Technology
3. A USER WHO POSTED A MAXIMUM OF ONE QUESTION ON STACKOVERFLOW =
4. Some simple common sense
5. Some simple common sense Duplicate questions
6. Some simple common sense Duplicate questions Uncommon tags
7. Some simple common sense Duplicate questions Uncommon tags Deleted questions
8. Some simple common sense Duplicate questions Uncommon tags Deleted questions Less views
9. Some simple common sense Duplicate questions Uncommon tags Deleted questions Less views No answer
10. Apparently not
11. Apparently not Duplicates Tags Deleted Views Answers Regular users One-day flies
12. Apparently not Duplicates Tags Deleted Views Answers Regular users One-day flies
13. Apparently not Duplicates Tags Deleted Views Answers Regular users One-day flies
14. Apparently not Duplicates Tags Deleted Views Answers Regular users One-day flies
15. Apparently not Duplicates Tags Deleted Views Answers Regular users One-day flies
16. Apparently not Duplicates Tags Deleted Views Answers Regular users One-day flies
19. What did we miss?
20. What did we miss?
21. What did we miss?
22. Feedback analysis 10,000 randomly picked posts Sentistrength
23. Feedback analysis 10,000 randomly picked posts Sentistrength Question niceness Answer niceness 0 0,05 0,1 0,15 0,2 Regular users One day flies
24. Feedback analysis 10,000 randomly picked posts Sentistrength Question niceness Answer niceness 0 0,05 0,1 0,15 0,2 Regular users One day flies
25. Feedback analysis 10,000 randomly picked posts Sentistrength Question niceness Answer niceness 0 0,05 0,1 0,15 0,2 Regular users One day flies
26. So what remains?
27. So what remains? Intuition: blown to bits
28. So what remains? Intuition: blown to bits More research is required
29. One-day flies on StackOverflow Why the vast majority of StackOverflow users only posts once Rogier Slag Mike de Waard Alberto Bacchelli Delft University of Technology