Investigating ‘One-Day Flies’ Users in The StackOverflow: Why Do and Don’t People Participate?

The paper will mainly investigate factors causing the critical issue of inactive users in one of online community, the Stack Overflow. The focus of inactive user itself will be ‘one-day flies’, those who posted once in Stack Overflow, then never come back. To establish the investigation, the author uses the systematic literature review approach.A new user is a valuable asset for Stack Overflow to keep their pace in the growing area. However, the facts that numerous users from this category become lurkers can be a huge burden for the community. The threat of unanswered questions, negative feedbacks, and deleted questions create a massive discouraging impact for the Stack Overflow, and therefore, raising a question about the health of this community - persistently intimidate new users may lead this giant community to the shrinking phase. However, there is also proves that through the user reputation and badge, some of them has passed the ‘novice’ stage and become actively participate in the community.