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Politically biased moderation drives echo chamber formation (for Reddit) (2024)
- tuhx 28d ago[flagged]
- cucumber3732842 27d agoIt's just the most obvious tumor. The cancer is present everywhere that people's rightthink score is meticulously kept.
- alejohausner 28d agoIn a related research paper, scientists proved that water is wet.
- FacelessJim 28d agoI wonder how these kinds of papers get funding at all…
- defrost 28d agoBig Aqua.
- lormayna 27d ago/r/Italy is the perfect example for this study
- deterministic 27d agoThe moderator is basically the equivalent of the environmental evaluator in a genetic/survival of the fittest algorithm. So of course the moderator will shape the outcome. No surprise there.
- ModsAreGayDude 27d agoIt’s more of a god role where sudden changes are possible to the environment that no fitness level could prepare for (e.g. a mod can decide to change history after it happened, or remove entire scenes suddenly), those violate the natural order of things to which you allude
- twistedpalm 27d agoIt’s the opposite. Moderator is arbitrary authority to do as they please. Survival of fittest would be if opinions were allowed, and let the best one win.
- deterministic 25d ago> Survival of fittest would be if opinions were allowed, and let the best one wi Not at all. By definition, the only thing a survivor needs to accomplish is to survive. And who decides which one is "the best"? You need someone to make that judgement. That was exactly my point. You may not agree with a typical moderator's judgement, but that doesn't change the fact that, within that narrow context, they are playing the role of deciding what is good.
- silexia 26d agoThe Seattle subreddit and a bunch of other Washington state subreddits do this and instantly ban any non-woke content.