Describing the distribution of engagement in an Internet support group by post frequency: A comparison of the 90-9-1 Principle and Zipf's Law

Sustainable online peer-to-peer support groups require engaged members. A metric commonly used to identify these members is the number of posts they have made. The 90-9-1 principle has been proposed as a ‘rule of thumb’ for classifying members using this metric with a recent study demonstrating the...

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Main Authors: Bradley Carron-Arthur, John A. Cunningham, Kathleen M. Griffiths
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-10-01
Series:Internet Interventions
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221478291400027X