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Area of Science:

  • Social Computing
  • Network Science
  • Computational Social Science

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  • Loyalty is crucial in online multi-community engagement, yet its behavioral manifestations and drivers remain unclear.
  • Users often exhibit strong loyalty to a single community, neglecting others.
  • Understanding user loyalty is key to community health and engagement dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To operationalize and investigate user and community loyalty in online platforms.
  • To identify behavioral indicators of user loyalty and characteristics of loyal communities.
  • To explore the predictability of user loyalty based on early engagement patterns.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of a large dataset of Reddit communities and user interactions.
  • Operationalization of loyalty through user-community preference and retention metrics.
  • Examination of user language, content engagement, and network structures.

Main Results:

  • Loyal users exhibit distinct behaviors: using collective identity language and engaging with less popular, esoteric content.
  • Loyal communities feature denser user interaction networks and lower triadic closure rates, indicating cohesive interactions.
  • A user's propensity for loyalty can be predicted from their initial community interactions.

Conclusions:

  • User loyalty is observable through consistent behavioral patterns and language use.
  • Community network structure plays a significant role in fostering and retaining loyal users.
  • Intrinsic user predispositions towards loyalty are evident early in their community engagement.