• loobkoob@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I believe the rule of thumb is the 90:9:1 ratio:

    • 1% of users create original content
    • 9% of users interact with that content - voting/commenting on it, sharing it, etc.
    • 90% of users are essentially just in read-only mode
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      Not that I don’t believe you, but do you have a source about that? Quite literally for the sake of my curiosity/further reading

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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

        Seems like in 2014, a peer-reviewed study confirmed that it’s pretty close to accurate:

        A 2014 peer-reviewed paper entitled “The 1% Rule in Four Digital Health Social Networks: An Observational Study” empirically examined the 1% rule in health-oriented online forums. The paper concluded that the 1% rule was consistent across the four support groups, with a handful of “Superusers” generating the vast majority of content.[6] A study later that year, from a separate group of researchers, replicated the 2014 van Mierlo study in an online forum for depression.[7] Results indicated that the distribution frequency of the 1% rule fit followed Zipf’s Law, which is a specific type of power law.