Re:Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web
by intended on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @11:31PM
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Hey nice report, how long did it take you'll?
I don't think your research suggests a reasonable defense for human communities, once you overlay your defense strategy over ground reality.
As the other user suggested, using sock puppets creates a force multiplier for attackers. In theory it can be used by defenders, but that suggests a level of sophistication on the defenders part that is many statistical deviations from the mean for normal people.
For attackers sock puppets won't be an unusual tool to be aware of.
But - A dedicated attacker is always going to be defeating defenders anyway.
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I suspect that the work going on during neutral interactions is far more valuable to Reddit as a whole, and you should be looking into that a lot more.
It may well help with making more cross talk (but in true depressing fashion - increase the echo chamber effect).
I wonder which subs have dissimilar features and yet have successful neutral colonization ? Perhaps that's a healthier feature to examine and deal with polarization ?
I don't think your research suggests a reasonable defense for human communities, once you overlay your defense strategy over ground reality.
As the other user suggested, using sock puppets creates a force multiplier for attackers. In theory it can be used by defenders, but that suggests a level of sophistication on the defenders part that is many statistical deviations from the mean for normal people.
For attackers sock puppets won't be an unusual tool to be aware of.
But - A dedicated attacker is always going to be defeating defenders anyway.
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I suspect that the work going on during neutral interactions is far more valuable to Reddit as a whole, and you should be looking into that a lot more.
It may well help with making more cross talk (but in true depressing fashion - increase the echo chamber effect).
I wonder which subs have dissimilar features and yet have successful neutral colonization ? Perhaps that's a healthier feature to examine and deal with polarization ?