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Does your research data include moderator actions? I imagine such data may be difficult to gather. On reddit it's easy since most groups are public and someone'
by rhaksw 5y ago
Does your research data include moderator actions? I imagine such data may be difficult to gather. On reddit it's easy since most groups are public and someone's already collected components for extracting such data [1].
I show some aggregated moderation history on reveddit.com e.g. r/worldnews [2]. Since moderators can remove things without users knowing [3], there is little oversight and bias naturally grows. I think there is less bias when users can more easily review the moderation. And, there is research that suggests if moderators provide removal explanations, it reduces the likelihood of that user having a post removed in the future [4]. Such research may have encouraged reddit to display post removal details [5] with some exceptions [6]. As far as I know, such research has not yet been published on comment removals.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/
[2] https://www.reveddit.com/v/worldnews/history/ https://www.reveddit.com/v/worldnews/history/
[3] https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#need https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#need
[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/duwdco/should_moderators_provide_removal_explanations/ https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/duwdco/should_mode...
[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/e66fql/post_removal_details_on_the_new_design_redesign/ https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/e66fql/post_remo...
[6] https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#reddit-does-not-say-post-removed https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#reddit-does-not-say-post...