>> Turns out that deplatforming works and has overall positive results.
Did you read this?
"Horta Ribeiro et al. (2021) assessed the impact of deplatforming across multiple platforms, concentrating on the migration of users from banned subreddits to newly established platforms. Their findings indicated a significant decline in user activity on the new platforms. However, they also found a subset of users who increased their toxicity and radicalization."
They specifically call out that departed users in past studies end up MORE Radicalized. So the people who leave get worse in some cases.
This study looks at those that remain on redit and found that:
"Our results reveal that 15.6% of the affected users abandoned Reddit after the ban and that those who remained reduced their toxicity by 6.6% on average. Despite this modest toxicity reduction, 5% of users increased their toxicity by more than 70% of their pre-ban level. The presence of such resentful users was widespread across the analyzed subreddits. However, these users likely had little impact on the platform given that only 16% of users increased both toxicity and activity. Likewise, only 21% users increased toxicity and also obtained positive engagement from the community."
Your calling that effective? It's hardly a dent in reddit, and further more the people who left likely went off and got worse.
I referenced 1984 for a reason:
"Other promising avenues of future research are the development of predictive models for the outcome of moderation interventions. These would allow to estimate the likely effects of an intervention in advance of its application, enhancing the possibility to plan the strategic enforcement of moderation actions."
This should never be a thing in our word. EVER. the fundamental assumption that it will only be used by the right people is the very thing Orwell was raging against in 1984...
> Your calling that effective? It's hardly a dent in reddit, and further more the people who left likely went off and got worse.
No, I said the result was overall positive and the study confirms that.
You've cherry picked what you got out of that text a bit:
> They specifically call out that departed users in past studies end up MORE Radicalized.
The text specifically says "found a subset of users". It's not "departed users", but a subset of them. Of course there's going to be a few that got worse... they're people.
The main point is: How did the whole system change? - Slightly positive. Where did the most toxic people go? - Away, where others won't easily find them by accident. We're not going to prevent the already evil from finding each other, but we can succeed in creating environments where they're not the normal group.
Did you read this?
"Horta Ribeiro et al. (2021) assessed the impact of deplatforming across multiple platforms, concentrating on the migration of users from banned subreddits to newly established platforms. Their findings indicated a significant decline in user activity on the new platforms. However, they also found a subset of users who increased their toxicity and radicalization."
They specifically call out that departed users in past studies end up MORE Radicalized. So the people who leave get worse in some cases.
This study looks at those that remain on redit and found that:
"Our results reveal that 15.6% of the affected users abandoned Reddit after the ban and that those who remained reduced their toxicity by 6.6% on average. Despite this modest toxicity reduction, 5% of users increased their toxicity by more than 70% of their pre-ban level. The presence of such resentful users was widespread across the analyzed subreddits. However, these users likely had little impact on the platform given that only 16% of users increased both toxicity and activity. Likewise, only 21% users increased toxicity and also obtained positive engagement from the community."
Your calling that effective? It's hardly a dent in reddit, and further more the people who left likely went off and got worse.
I referenced 1984 for a reason:
"Other promising avenues of future research are the development of predictive models for the outcome of moderation interventions. These would allow to estimate the likely effects of an intervention in advance of its application, enhancing the possibility to plan the strategic enforcement of moderation actions."
This should never be a thing in our word. EVER. the fundamental assumption that it will only be used by the right people is the very thing Orwell was raging against in 1984...