Behavior habrovchanina

This article will come across such popular words as “karma”, “minus”, “linux”, “microsoft”, “apple”, “google wave”, “first topic”, etc. Therefore, if you do not transfer some of these words or some of their aggregate, please excuse me immediately. The purpose of the article is not to touch someone for a living, but to trace a little the general model of the behavior of users of the habr. For academic purposes.

My scientific work is somewhat related to the analysis of user behavior on the Internet, so it was interesting to experiment with some posts and, accordingly, the ratings of these posts on Habré. As a result, I would like to share some thoughts about how the behavioral pattern affects the assessment.


I tried to answer two questions: “why minus” and “why plus”.
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Immediately let's mark the posts for which the minus is guaranteed:
- (1 place) google wave invites
- (2 place) polls
- (3 place) not justified mat
- (4th place) linux critic (often), apple (less), open source (always)
- (5th place) “look, I'm smart” articles, but outside of this blog

Posts for which are guaranteed plus:
- (1 place) posts from the topic “I Migrate”, “I Am Smart”, “Scientific Popular”
- (2 place) a large and detailed article (translation) on any subject
- (3 place) articles "how Linux (Mac) helped me in my life"
- (4 place) I indignant
- (5 place) articles on "IE6 - g ** o"

But it's all simple, let's complicate the task a bit and try to somehow highlight some behaviors.

Fanaticism

The fanatics plus everything and everyone who is on their side, and mercilessly minus all who are beyond the magic circle.

In fact, it triggers a filter for certain words, for example, “microsoft” or “linux” (underline the appropriate). When fanatics meet on the same site, the mess begins (example “ Let's talk about Microsoft ” - 988 comments, who has more?).

Vendetta

This type can be attributed to people who chronically do not tolerate criticism at their own expense ( example ). For them it is a matter of honor to put a minus on your comment, in karma, and then go through all the comments of the upper level and also put minuses. Then, with dignity, they sit down to write another "ingenious" project.

Loyalty

Users with a state of "loyalty" can put a minus for a comment only if the comment does not contain a payload when it directly or indirectly concerns his personality. Can put a plus for reasoned statements, which may be partially or completely disagree. Never put cons for those posts that he did not like.

Curiosity

Hmm, I wonder, how many points did this topic get? In this case, it is difficult to determine what the user will deliver; rather, everything depends on the specific person in a particular situation. But the fact that he will put only one assessment and will go on - a high probability. Thanks for the clarification, you can see the rating of the article, without voting.

Principle

Such users do not put either "+" or "-", but everyone knows about it, since that information is contained in a large number of comments of this user.

Pofigizm

For such a condition, it is common to read the information without some kind of karmo actions or through a microchamber.

Good and evil (hot and cold)

In such a state, people begin to distribute plus signs (or minus ones) to everyone in a row, motivating with these phrases like “I love everyone”, “what a cool day” or “your post is about ***”, “shkolota taxis”, etc. . As a rule, they are either hard plus or hard minus - it all depends on the specific topic.

And now the general conclusions:
* The topic is not very cool or is highly specialized. The number of pros and cons for a topic, for example, is 0. Conclusion: there are always more minuses in karma than advantages
* own reflections (ideas, suggestions, experience) are always rated higher (lower) than news topics
* a good translation of an article on jQuery is gaining more advantages than a similarly good translation of an article on .NET or Java
* in the first twenty habouriors ratio ms vs. unix approximately 20% to 80%
* information about Java is almost absent
* the presence of the phrase in the topic "this is my first topic" in the absence of meaning does not save from karmrolchenchevaniya

It is clear that it is impossible to talk only about one specific model for a specific person, but, having correctly understood the audience, you can write good and, most importantly, “correct” articles :)

Thanks for attention!

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