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Table 5 Reason to decrease participation

From: Understanding and evaluating the behavior of technical users. A study of developer interaction at StackOverflow

Reason

Mean

Std dev

PCC

I felt bored, SO is not fun anymore

3.18

1.02

0.31

Redundant/duplicate questions have cropped up

3.59

0.99

0

Quality of questions is not good anymore

3.25

1

−0.13

Questions are now one liners

2.67

0.91

0.09

Difficult to find appropriate questions to answer

3.39

1.18

0.2

Lack of time. Busy with current work

3.94

0.81

0.16

There is a lot of negativity in SO

2.18

1.09

0.18

I have reached my personal goal

3.09

1.3

0.19

There are a lot of people to answer questions

3.45

0.85

0.79

New users don’t know how to ask questions or accept good answers

3.06

0.89

−0.16

Problems with SO management

2.3

1.14

−0.26

I have matured and have gained experience, so I am picky in my questions

3.55

1.23

0.32

  1. 1-strongly disagree, 2-disagree, 3-neutral, 4-agree, 5-strongly agree