Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S...
by intended on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @12:49AM
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Thank you. I've realized I've been hearing warning klaxons everytime a new paper on social media comes out.
I've started posing the question - what would happen if someone used this paper, and decided to ban subs like "twox". or "for equality to all" or "improve yourself" and so on.
And the fear of that must also be tempered by reading the paper itself, since a key part is being ignored in many comments so far
Section 6.6
> In a sense, Reddit has made these users (from banned subreddits) someone else’s problem. To
be clear, from a macro persepctive, Reddit’s actions likely did not make the internet safer or less
hateful.
So its not like we've cleared the thicket, we've just put it in a jar not owned by reddit.
The study itself seems to be over the 10-20 day period immediately before and after the ban.
I've started posing the question - what would happen if someone used this paper, and decided to ban subs like "twox". or "for equality to all" or "improve yourself" and so on.
And the fear of that must also be tempered by reading the paper itself, since a key part is being ignored in many comments so far Section 6.6
> In a sense, Reddit has made these users (from banned subreddits) someone else’s problem. To be clear, from a macro persepctive, Reddit’s actions likely did not make the internet safer or less hateful.
So its not like we've cleared the thicket, we've just put it in a jar not owned by reddit.
The study itself seems to be over the 10-20 day period immediately before and after the ban.