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In a natural experiment on a popular German Question & Answer community we investigate how user status demotion affects user activity levels in online communities. The virtual reward system on this platform is designed to activate the status seeking behavior of its members. The members’ status within the community is represented by the member’s rank. In the experiment the platform operator restructured...
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