Really interesting!…I’m still working my way through the original journal article— this though:
Interestingly, the au-
thors that receive no feedback are most likely to leave
a community.
I’ve always suspected this, in my time running my own blog and my (later) time commenting and observing here— I always thought that ‘no attention at all’, for a new poster, drives them off faster than either upvoting or downvoting does. If you put yourself out there to make a comment at all, you want some kind of response, and just like with little kids, they consider negative attention to always be better than no attention at all.