A list of preliminary questions to be answered through the Edgesense testing on Edgeryders, slightly focusing on building last year’s event Lote4, timeline July - December 2014 (work on progress). Please add your questions and comments.
How subcommunities develop and grow in Edgeryders?
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who are the central non-moderator members? (potential moderator role in the community)
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how central members add specialization to conversations? what is the nature of the non-moderator interactions between sub communities? this includes the ratio and done by whom
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what is the role of moderators in decreasing the modularity, across time?
(Noemi) My question would be: what, if any, is the influence of community members in the evolution of sub-communities? If you remove them from the graph, do sub-communities still exist?
- what is the sustainability of conversations in sub communities over time ?
(Noemi): Sustainability in terms of what? That conversations become more and more specialized?
(hazem) plus how much of it being faded away and how much new conversations started , in other words what’s the ratio of new edges being built to the old edges already exists?
this would be just a relative value between subcommunities as the edge value represents “unique relationships” as explained by alberto
// the timeline of posts and comments follows the same curve except for a small incident in 2014 where the posts by community members exceeded again the posts by moderators … so when was that exactly? ( probably while proposing sessions for lote4 )
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going back to the Spot the Future project in spring 2014, what is the ratio of interaction of the futurespotters subcommunity with the network during and after the project?
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excluding the moderators, what is the average degree ( in + out ) of the different nodes
Users life-cycles
Questions to answer during Masters of Networks event in March, comparing and computing data from more communities.
Can we predict from early behavior which users have a chance to become vary active community members aka “tribe elders”?
What converts a lurker into an active user?
Imagining a mechanism that causes the user to become active, and then building a test for the reality to conform to that model.
Is there a typical time window from user creation during which either the new user becomes active (for some value of “active” or is lost forever?
Example of explanation we’re looking for: “85% of users that do not write a comment within two weeks of creating their user never contribute anything”.
// (hazem) from 16 march till now there was 2 small increases in the no of nodes per users (could be the effect of different activities that requires more engagement from different users lote and futurespotters )
Community health and other questions
Can we maybe break down or build a model for a minimally healthy community? Are there reliable tests for a debate’s good health? Why is debate fruitful and creative in some contexts, sterile and conflictual in others?
NB: Active communities are not the same as healthy ones I think.
- Can we develop a metric as to the optimal proportion of content in a healthy community? Are healthier communities those with a greater share of contributors content than moderators content, or viceversa?
- Do people in more active communities talk to more people? Or do they talk more to the same average number of people?
- can edgesense be developed to predict different scenarios of how the community could grow ? ( trying to keep the same modularity , how many moderators are needed if one new average size sub community appeared …etc )
