In a study of Wikipedia contributions, Halfaker et al. found that negative feeback tend to halt the contributions of new users

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Factors that Demotivate User Contributions

HALFAKER, A., KITTUR, A., AND RIEDL, J. Don’t bite the newbies: how reverts affect the quantity and quality of wikipedia work. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (2011), ACM, pp. 163–172.

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