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Spreading the honey: a system for maintaining an online community

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Joan M. DiMicco,

Beth BrownholtzAuthors Info & Claims

GROUP '09: Proceedings of the 2009 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

Pages 31 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/1531674.1531680

Published: 10 May 2009 Publication History

Abstract

As online communities, such as social network sites, mature, they face challenges in sustaining user engagement. To address this, we designed and deployed a rating system to encourage a broad set of users to promote a diverse set of content on a social network site. By evaluating the impact of the promotions on the site's content and users over time, we found that the system successfully promotes more diverse content and encourages new social interactions between users.

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1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction

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GROUP '09: Proceedings of the 2009 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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DOI:10.1145/1531674

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