Respectfully, and I am not an academic, but from my perspective, it appears that it took 7 researchers to interview 22 people on /r/programming, and then write 12 pages about it with the conclusion that if you want to write software, /r/programming has some good news, and that people that use reddit are comfortable in upvoting and downvoting posts?

And you have 49 citations - is this some sort of comedy journal like the onion that I am missing, or did these people just need to do this for homework? And you are sharing this at a programming conference? yikes.