Comments on: [the making of, pt. 1] Of sausages and research papers https://alex.halavais.net/the-making-of-pt-1-of-sausages-and-research-papers/ Things that interest me. Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:53:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: [the making of, pt. 6] Are you experienced? - a thaumaturgical compendium https://alex.halavais.net/the-making-of-pt-1-of-sausages-and-research-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-214056 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:53:02 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=2059#comment-214056 […] is the sixth in a series of posts about the piece of research I am doing on Digg. You can read it from the beginning if you are interested. In the last section I showed a correlation between how much of a response […]

]]> By: alex https://alex.halavais.net/the-making-of-pt-1-of-sausages-and-research-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-204175 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:41:39 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=2059#comment-204175 Managed to completely miss that in my search of the literature. (And in general, which is scary itself since I’m pretty interested in this stuff.) Thank you!

]]> By: Bertil Hatt https://alex.halavais.net/the-making-of-pt-1-of-sausages-and-research-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-204174 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:28:54 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=2059#comment-204174 I was right to believe that influence isn’t that monotonous, and I was wrong to assume you wouldn’t detail that with the data.

I don’t know if your research idea was influenced by this paper, but you might want to put alerts on Huberman’s work:

Crowdsourcing, Attention and Productivity.
Bernardo A Huberman, Daniel M Romero and Fang Wu
http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3030v1

Abstract: The tragedy of the digital commons does not prevent the copious voluntary production of content that one witnesses in the web. We show through an analysis of a massive data set from YouTube that the productivity exhibited in crowdsourcing exhibits a strong positive dependence on attention, measured by the number of downloads. Conversely, a lack of attention leads to a decrease in the number of videos uploaded and the consequent drop in productivity, which in many cases asymptotes to no uploads whatsoever. Moreover, uploaders compare themselves to others when having low productivity and to themselves when exceeding a threshold.

]]> By: Bertil Hatt https://alex.halavais.net/the-making-of-pt-1-of-sausages-and-research-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-204173 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:38:54 +0000 http://alex.halavais.net/?p=2059#comment-204173 I came across your blog while trying to sort out the untagged feeds in my too long Google Reader list; I must have somehow pre-selected it some time ago, but I can’t remember, anyway — what a great surprise!

Both the tone of your blog, your approach to research and your topic are spot on for me; I’ve been stuck in he hell on procrastinating on Digg, and you are pulling me out.

One question on your approach (I’ll read your next posts in a minute): a higher rank is a reward, and there are truckloads on study on the effect of rewards (that’ll be your next post, I’m sure) — but while the consensus is the effect is globally positive, most agree it’s not a uniform effect: there is such a thing as resting on your laurel, that is merged with the encouragement. Timing is of the essence, and your question seems to blur that — although by measuring time between posts, you should be able to sort the dynamics of reporting sessions.

Congrat’s on the Captcha.

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