Abstract:
In this work, we examine the disparity in contribution behavior of
users with respect to the activities that they choose to perform on
Q&A websites. We collect the data of 156 websites of StackExchange
and analyze the contribution made by over 5.3 million users. We find
that most of the users tend to contribute predominantly to one of the
primary activities. Such a behavior yields a high-level distribution
of users across the activities, which provides useful insights into
the user base composition of these websites. In this work, we show
how this distribution varies for StackExchange websites and discuss
how it can be a valuable maintenance parameter for these websites.
