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

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2014

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Carron-Arthur, Brad
Cunningham, John
Griffiths, Kathleen

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Elsevier B.V.

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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

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Internet Interventions

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