\chapter{Conclusion} %repeat motivation % chage is 1 of many efforts to make community better % describe change shortly % goal was to find out whether change improves user interaction experience for new users % 3 criteria, sentiment, vote score, number of questions % eval: vader -> sentiment, ITs, by looking at the 10 largest communities (list here, note so is by far the largest) %repeat datensätze % 10 largest se communities % stack overflow by far the largest, >10x times math.se % %repeat results % change seems to be a success, not a one size fits all solution that works everywhere but a majority of communities benefit % benefitters The change introduced by the StackExchange team produced desired results in more than half of the investigated communities: StackOverflow, AskUbuntu, ServerFault, stats.stackexchange.com, tex.stackexchange.com, and unix.stackexchange. The results of the StackOverflow community most closely resembles the expectation of improving the welcomingness. %in general % first questions improved in all, followup in too in most of these communities % sentiment raises in all except ServerFault % vote score is does not yiel meaningful results, either completely unaffected or votescore changes drastically before or after change, only for ServerFault the time matches and there a huge spike, but it quickly returns to previous levels % % no benefits/no evidence MathOverflow, SuperUser, math.stackexchange.com, and electronics.stackexchange.com do not profit as much from the change and show not an increase but decrease or continuation in the decrease of sentiment. % the picture is often not clear for these communities, only one statistic improves, in contrast to the benfitting communtites where stats rise accross the board % 1st question decrease for all communities -> bad sign % follow up questions decrease for all except math.se % vote score on a downward trend for all (for some even worse after) %repeat discussion % However, the falling number of questions from new contributors stabilized a bit for the math communities and the vote score increased for electronics.stackexchange.com. SuperUser saw a huge influx of new contributors shortly after the change who asked a lot of questions and dropping the sentiment and vote score value during that period. % one day files, state communities % seasonality, state communities, state months % large influx, state communities, state gravity %other odd things (peculiarities) % - stack overflow most stable, expected as largest community, also closly matches section 3 example % - MathOverflow sparsest % - sentiment levels vary drastically between communities, stats has highest, tex lowest % - same goes for vote score, MathOverflow highest by far %closing sentences % change worked over all, majority benefitted % no silver bullet, no simple solution, no 1 size fits all, communities to diverse %sum up findings % change did something? %...