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> Clamping down is not notoriously effective. "We find that the ban worked for Reddit. More accounts than expected discontinued using the site; those that stay

by Pils 6y ago

> Clamping down is not notoriously effective. "We find that the ban worked for Reddit. More accounts than expected discontinued using the site; those that stayed drastically decreased their hate speech usage-by at least 80%. Though many subreddits saw an influx of r/fatpeoplehate and r/C******n "migrants," those subreddits saw no significant changes in hate speech usage"[0]. I expect if Parler et. al. took similar stances against hate speech and open calls to violence, they would see similar results. > Without a clear understanding of how a problem came to be, how can it be fixed? You can't test a treatment without an intervention. edit: fixed asterisks. [0]https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3134666 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3134666

withinboredom 6y ago
> I expect if Parler et. al. took similar stances against hate speech and open calls to violence, they would see similar results. I haven’t really looked into those platforms, but they’re new enough that they probably don’t have the tooling to do any of that. It took fb and Twitter years to build that.
qorrect 6y ago
I can't work out what r/C**n would spell could you share ?
- stordoff 6y ago
  From the citation: > Though many subreddits saw an influx of r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown "migrants," those subreddits saw no significant changes in hate speech usage.
syshum 6y ago
They disappeared from reddit, they did not disappear from reality they just moved on to other place often time even more radicalized places with absolutely no chance of encountering differing opinions. Reddit has become a Political echo chamber, I was pretty active in libertarian and a few other political subreddits years ago, i no longer am because it is just a Authoritarian left wing echo chamber, even the so call "conservative" and "libertarian" subreddits My political views have not changed simply because I am not longer politically active in reddit, but to you that is "win" It is not, it just makes it seem that way because your little corner of the internet is now a safe space free of any dissenting thought, in reality the cultural wedge is only getting larger

by Pils 6y ago

withinboredom 6y ago

> I expect if Parler et. al. took similar stances against hate speech and open calls to violence, they would see similar results. I haven’t really looked into those platforms, but they’re new enough that they probably don’t have the tooling to do any of that. It took fb and Twitter years to build that.

qorrect 6y ago

I can't work out what r/C**n would spell could you share ?

stordoff 6y ago
From the citation: > Though many subreddits saw an influx of r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown "migrants," those subreddits saw no significant changes in hate speech usage.

syshum 6y ago

They disappeared from reddit, they did not disappear from reality they just moved on to other place often time even more radicalized places with absolutely no chance of encountering differing opinions. Reddit has become a Political echo chamber, I was pretty active in libertarian and a few other political subreddits years ago, i no longer am because it is just a Authoritarian left wing echo chamber, even the so call "conservative" and "libertarian" subreddits My political views have not changed simply because I am not longer politically active in reddit, but to you that is "win" It is not, it just makes it seem that way because your little corner of the internet is now a safe space free of any dissenting thought, in reality the cultural wedge is only getting larger