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% goto place for programming questions (SO)
% social media
% knowledge archive
% different to top-down forums
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In August of 2018, the StackExchange team introduced a small change which may have had a huge impact on the platform. They added a new feature to visibly mark questions from new contributors, as part of their effort to make the site more welcoming for new users \cite{post2018come}. Specifically members who want to answer a question created by a new contributor are shown a notification in the answer box that this question is from a new contributor. The StackExchange team hopes that this little change encourages members to be more friendly and forgiving toward new users.
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% stackexchange new contriutor post: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/314287/come-take-a-look-at-our-new-contributor-indicator?cb=1
% what did change intend?
This thesis evaluates whether this change has a real impact on the community and if so in which direction the community reacts. For this analysis, this thesis utilizes Vader \cite{hutto2014vader}, a sentiment analysis tool, to quantify the sentiments of the answers submitted to questions of new contributors. An interrupted time series is then applied to these values to evalutate whether the change achieved its purpose of making the platform more welcoming.
This thesis evaluates whether this change has a real impact on the community and if so in how the community reacts. For this analysis, this thesis utilizes Vader \cite{hutto2014vader}, a sentiment analysis tool, to measure the sentiments of the answers submitted to questions of new contributors. An interrupted time series is then applied to these values to evalutate whether the change achieved its purpose of making the platform more welcoming.
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This thesis investigates the ten largest communities of the StackExchange platform measured by number of posts. This includes StackOverflow, MathOverflow, Math, AskUbuntu, SuperUser, and some lesser known communities.
This thesis investigates the ten largest communities of the StackExchange platform measured by number of posts. This includes prominent communities, for instance, StackOverflow, MathOverflow, Math, AskUbuntu, and SuperUser as well as some lesser known communities.
% write about other communities (e.g. i investigated)