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How is this not going to become another game of whack-o-mole? You break one clubhouse they build 3 more, re: FatPeopleHate diaspora.
by ipsocannibal 6y ago
How is this not going to become another game of whack-o-mole? You break one clubhouse they build 3 more, re: FatPeopleHate diaspora.
- belltaco 6y agoThat example disproves your point. FPH lost a lot of traction after it moved to Voat and kept losing it. It has barely a fraction of the activity and views it had on Reddit.
- ipsocannibal 6y agoI wasn't making a point. I was asking a question and providing an example to explain the context of the question.
- ceejayoz 6y ago> You break one clubhouse they build 3 more, re: FatPeopleHate diaspora. In the case of FPH, the new clubhouse was harder to find and didn't affect its neighbors as much. http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf > More accounts than expected discontinued using the site; those that stayed drastically decreasedtheir hate speech usage—by at least 80%. Though many subreddits saw an influx of r/fatpeoplehate andr/CoonTown “migrants,” those subreddits saw no significant changes in hate speech usage. In other words,other subreddits did not inherit the problem. We conclude by reflecting on the apparent success of the ban,discussing implications for online moderation, Reddit and internet communities more broadly.
- ipsocannibal 6y agoInteresting. Have there been follow up studies to track where the members of the banned groups have gone since? I'm interested to see if groups reform and realign into new groups that conduct the same types of activities.
- ipsocannibal 6y agoI think conducting research like https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3392847 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3392847 but specifically on groups that are banned for hate speech would be fascinating.