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Consumption and production of digital public goods modeling the impact of different success metrics

With the Internet has come the phenomenon of people volunteering to work on digital public goods such as open source software and online encyclopedia articles. Presumably, the success of individual public goods has an effect on attracting volunteers. However, the definition of success is ill-defined. This paper explores the impact of different success metrics on a simple public goods model. The findings show that the success metrics considered have minimal impact on the behavior of the model, leading to the conclusion that many proposed success metrics measure the same phenomenon.