Research in Public #18: Working paper is now public on SSRN[1]
The Stacker News paper I've been working on since last October is now publicly available on a working paper website known as SSRN. SSRN (Social Science Research Network) is kinda like arxiv.org, but for social science papers. These papers are not yet peer reviewed, nor considered "published", but they have gone through a basic quality check to ensure that they are serious scientific papers. Here is the link:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=6556022
I tried posting it to arxiv.org, but apparently they tightened up their permissions. Now, only people who are endorsed by other arxiv.org researchers can post there. I only know one guy who is a potential endorser, and unfortunately he tried endorsing me and wasn't able to, I think because they require some minimum level of recent activity on the site in order to endorse. If anyone knows an arxiv endorser, or if you are one, and you're willing to endorse me, I can send you a link to do so. But they seem kinda strict, like in order to endorse, you have to have posted papers in the exact same subject area as the person you're endorsing wants to post in.
I will probably be submitting this paper to an academic journal within a week or two. Feedback is always welcome!
Another research question that might be interesting is whether zapping is influenced by the rewards pool.
Can you include the size of the rewards pool at time of zap?
There was also at least one experiment that put zero weight on zapping for rewards payouts.
Hmm, not sure. I'd have to check what I can infer from the data and what I can't.
It seemed like there were much bigger zaps yesterday after @grayruby made his large donation
What donation? I need a highly salient rewards-o-meter on every page of SN in the top right corner so I can know when to zap more.
You weren't aware yesterday was a day of celebration? Too be fair it was a few days late. Should have been last week.
#1475419
I failed to capitalize on Canada's misery due to my lack of attention. What a bummer!
I am sure there will be more opportunities in the future.
Maybe we can get more advanced zap settings, like zap x% of what’s in the rewards pool.
Yes. The juicy rewards pool was a conduit for zaps.
Sorry I forgot about giving feedback. I was reminded when I was telling Scoresby about it yesterday. Now I can comment with feedback here
Yeah, no worries. Even if the feedback is just about the writing and conclusions, that would be valuable.
Awesome job, it's going to be a treat to read this. Thank you!!
this is the kind of paper SN can actually improve. mi curious whether you can separate reward-seeking comments from genuine engagement, because the zaps/rewards pool probably shape tone as much as volume. respect for publishing the working paper publicly.