Analysis of the reputation system and user contributions on a question answering website
Dana Movshovitz‐Attias, Yair Movshovitz-Attias, Peter Steenkiste, Christos Faloutsos · 2013
Question answering (Q&A) communities have been gaining popularity in the past few years. The success of such sites depends mainly on the contribution of a small number of expert users who provide a significant portion of the helpful answers, and so identifying users that have the potential of becoming strong contributers is an important task for owners of such communities.