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Re:Why Reddit is mediocre: some scientific evidence by friednslip on Monday September 15, 2014 @06:00PM (#8321784)
The paper is fairly interesting from a methodological POV, and I do agree with the hypothesis that negative feedback actually does encourage trolls too, but none of those communities are anything close to reddit in their scope. The biggest problem I see in making the analogy is the fact that two of the four communities(allkpop, IGN) studied are fairly myopic in their subject focus, and subject to filter bubbles.
Re:Why Reddit is mediocre: some scientific evidence by freshhawk on Monday September 15, 2014 @07:33PM (#8322198)
But so are subreddits, by definition. Why would a collection of independently myopic communities act differently? It might I suppose but it seems less likely.