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1% rule - 1% of users actively create new content, while 99% lurk. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a general rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an Internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. Variants include the 1–9–90 rule (sometimes 90–9–1 principle or the 89:10:1 ratio),[1] which states that in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only consume content, 9% of the participants change or update content, and 1% of the participants add content.

Similar rules are known in information science; for instance, the 80/20 rule known as the Pareto principle states that 20 percent of a group will produce 80 percent of the activity, regardless of how the activity is defined.

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Bots are generally spotted pretty quick and banned, though some do slip through. It is certainly not 80% on Lemmy (my perception is more like 7 to 10%).

Many people post links to news since it is relatively low effort, and something that can be done consistently to keep a community active and encourage discussion. That's not to say more original content wouldn't be appreciated and is needed, but as we are still small, there likely isn't a big enough pool of people who can create higher effort original stuff to keep up a constant 'supply', for lack of a better term.

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

A majority of what I'm seeing might not be bots but is definitely "low effort" as you said. I'll browse through the Hot posts across all instances Federated with my instance and it seems like most of what I see is just low-effort, copy-paste links with no description in the body of the post and a click-bait title leading to a pay-walled news article.