scholarly journals Norm Violation in Online Communities – A Study of Stack Overflow Comments

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-34
Author(s):  
Jithin Cheriyan ◽  
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu ◽  
Stephen Cranefield
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Stack Overflow ◽  
Norm Violation

Marking up and marking down

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Fault Line ◽  
Implementation Cost ◽  
Stack Overflow ◽  
Considerable Cost

Markup provides a means of annotating a text such that its important characteristics are readily apparent. Simplicity of annotation and richness of meaning are often at odds. Through one lens, we can see the evolution of markup as developing along this fault line. TANSTAAFL. SGML provided mechanisms that reduced the complexity of annotation at considerable cost in implementation. XML reduced implementation cost at the expense of simplicity in annotation. HTML attempted to simplify annotation complexity and implementation cost by choosing a single tag set and inventing entirely new extension mechanisms. Online communities like GitHub and Stack Overflow have abandoned angle brackets in favor of Markdown, Common Mark, AsciiDoc, and other markup reminiscent of wiki syntax or SGML SHORTREF. Why am I in this basket and where are we going?

Nurturing Online Communities: An Empirical Investigation

MIS Quarterly ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Bapna ◽  
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Mary J. Benner ◽  
Liangfei Qiu ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Empirical Investigation

Engaging Voluntary Contributions in Online Communities: A Hidden Markov Model

MIS Quarterly ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Chen ◽  
◽  
Xiahua Wei ◽  
Kevin Xiaoguo Zhu ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Markov Model ◽  
Hidden Markov Model ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Hidden Markov ◽  
Voluntary Contributions

The Internet is a Semicommons

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Grimmelmann
Keyword(s):  
Open Field ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Private Property ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Field System ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Dynamic Interplay ◽  
Enormous Success

78 Fordham Law Review 2799 (2010)The Internet is a semicommons. Private property in servers and network links coexists with a shared communications platform. This distinctive combination both explains the Internet's enormous success and illustrates some of its recurring problems.Building on Henry Smith's theory of the semicommons in the medieval open-field system, this essay explains how the dynamic interplay between private and common uses on the Internet enables it to facilitate worldwide sharing and collaboration without collapsing under the strain of misuse. It shows that key technical features of the Internet, such as its layering of protocols and the Web's division into distinct "sites," respond to the characteristic threats of strategic behavior in a semicommons. An extended case study of the Usenet distributed messaging system shows that not all semicommons on the Internet succeed; the continued success of the Internet depends on our ability to create strong online communities that can manage and defend the infrastructure on which they rely. Private and common both have essential roles to play in that task, a lesson recognized in David Post's and Jonathan Zittrain's recent books on the Internet.

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