2022/08/21 by Aneesh Tickoo, Tickoo, Aneesh, Shweta Chauhan +3
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Expert finding and Q&A systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #Innovative Teaching Methods #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Wikis in Education and Collaboration
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2208.10488
openalex publication_date 2022/08/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In today's modern digital world, we have a number of online Question and Answer platforms like Stack Exchange, Quora, and GFG that serve as a medium for people to communicate and help each other. In this paper, we analyzed the effectiveness of Stack Overflow in helping newbies to programming. Every user on this platform goes through a journey. For the first 12 months, we consider them to be a newbie. Post 12 months they come under one of the following categories: Experienced, Lurkers, or Inquisitive. Each question asked has tags assigned to it and we observe that questions with some specific tags have a faster response time indicating an active community in that field over others. The platform had a steady growth up to 2013 after which it started declining, but recently during the pandemic 2020, we can see rejuvenated activity on the platform.