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Moderating a public scholarship site on Reddit: A case study of r/AskHistorians [pdf]
- gbrindisi 6y agoAskHistorians is the internet I like.
- rjtavares 6y agoWell moderated Internet corners are truly a wonderful thing. /r/NeutralPolitics/ is another great example - even with the difficult topic it deals with, you can usually find great discussions there.
- raxxorrax 6y agoIt can be, but I also like the alternative. From a content perspective the sub is decent, but as with all heavy handed approaches to moderation, the perspective you get will get narrower as time progresses. Most information is really good, but I dislike the community character it gets. I have seen it enough times and it will very likely affect it negatively. It is inevitable if it gets too personal.
- s9w 6y agoThat paper calls opposition of immigration "discrimination" and free speech "lawnessness". I don't agree with that.
- rjtavares 6y agoThe paper says "Reddit’s lassez faire approach to sanctioning demonstrates an ethos of lawlessness; when lawlessness is framed as ‘free speech,’ moderation is seen as censorship". You may not agree with this sentence, but it is definitely not calling free speech "lawlessness".
- aaron695 6y agoIt's a really toxic white paper, but they are from Reddit so what did you expect? I'd only somewhat agree "hostility towards immigration" is not "discrimination" It's worded in that toxic Reddit way to cause conversations like these, it's imprecise what they mean with "hostility" but that's the authors Reddit world to enrage and be enraged. The author is not a Moderator from my reading. It'd be interesting if a AskHistorians moderator would write a proper paper and how it would sound.