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Exploring how topic characteristics influence online discussion quality
Author(s) -
Liu Jieli,
Gao Zihan,
Zhang Pengyi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.376
Subject(s) - anonymity , quality (philosophy) , politeness , online community , online discussion , domain (mathematical analysis) , data science , psychology , computer science , world wide web , linguistics , epistemology , mathematical analysis , philosophy , computer security , mathematics
The quality of online discussions is essential to community development. Prior research has provided evidence of how different factors, such as anonymity, influence the discussion quality, but little is known about how topic characteristics and online discussion quality are related. We analyzed a collection 726 posts about 10 topics, and the finding suggest that domain and sentiment polarity of topics has effect on the politeness of discussions. Sensitive and sociological topics might engage more relevant posts.