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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Chaff from the Wheat : Characterization and Modeling of Deleted Questions on Stack Overflow · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1401.0480/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1401.0480/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Chaff from the Wheat : Characterization and Modeling of Deleted Questions on Stack Overflow — mentioned by denzil_correa</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21796483</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1401.0480:21796483</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2019 14:58:14 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Shameless plug. I did some analysis on closed and deleted questions on StackOverflow posted between 2008-2014 [0, 1]. The key findings from the analysis were as follows * Closed questions due to the reason &amp;quot;subjective&amp;quot; are very popular amongst the subscribers but not in line with Stackoverflow rules * Closed questions with reasons &amp;quot;duplicates&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;off topic&amp;quot; are the prime question areas for reputation gaming * Deleted questions are very low in quality and are pretty much unrevivable with interference, unlike closed questions. Pyramidal structure of decreasing quality - Normal -&amp;gt; Closed -&amp;gt;…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1401.0480/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.IR</category></item><item><title>Chaff from the Wheat : Characterization and Modeling of Deleted Questions on Stack Overflow — mentioned by denzil_correa</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15934594</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1401.0480:15934594</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:02:58 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Shamless Plug - I have published a couple of research papers which focuses on prediction of &amp;quot;Closed&amp;quot; (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.7291.pdf) and &amp;quot;Deleted&amp;quot; (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.0480.pdf) questions on Stack Overflow. It might help some of the bots.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1401.0480/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.IR</category></item></channel></rss>
