In the past few months, I read a paper (or a draft paper?) that I think was shared on this mailing list. Unfortunately I seem to have lost both the paper and the email (job change), so I would be grateful if anyone could send me the paper or a link or whatever.

IIRC, the paper was looking at editor retention, particularly the retention of new editors. I think there were about 8 hypotheses given and some experiments conducted to test these. The one I remember most clearly was the finding that new good-faith editors were highly likely to see their contributions deleted, by either bots or more experienced editors, and this was likely to be de-motivating for them.

If anyone can help with this, it would be much appreciated.

Kerry