Comments on: gini coefficient for online participation

By: Must Read Monday 7/27 — Social Mallard

Must Read Monday 7/27 — Social Mallard — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:24:14 +0000

[...] Gini Coefficient for Online Participation (Bud Caddell) – Long reading, consider this your online community grad school course for the week. [...]

By: Bud Caddell

Bud Caddell — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:35:11 +0000

Mike,

To your question, the points themselves, and the community mean and median, are the way to track overall activity.

We should be charting point totals, mean, and median along with the coefficient.

By: Mike Arauz

Mike Arauz — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:44:51 +0000

I’m all championing more equal distribution of participation in online communities. And I like this metric for measuring that.

But, wouldn’t this metric show a an equally strong score if everyone’s participation on average dropped or if everyone’s participation on average increased? It only measures their equalness, right? So we’d need another (probably simpler?) metric to measure if overall participation was increasing.

By: Bryce Benton

Bryce Benton — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:25:20 +0000

I started this site about a week ago. We only have 45 members so far but your predictions seem about on par with our participation levels.