论文标题
众多之一：评估适度干预对R/The_donald的用户级别的影响
One of Many: Assessing User-level Effects of Moderation Interventions on r/The_Donald
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论文摘要
评估审核干预措施的效果是至关重要的任务，因为它允许评估内容审核过程的成功。到目前为止，几乎完全在汇总平台或社区级别上评估了干预效果。在这里，我们对针对R/The_donald的适度干预措施的用户级效果进行了多维评估：Reddit上的唐纳德·特朗普社区。我们证明了干预措施：1）大大减少用户活动； 2）稍微增加了用户参与的子列表的多样性； 3）用户毒性略有降低； 4）让位于分享较少的事实和政治上有偏见的新闻。重要的是，我们还发现，具有强大社区水平的干预措施与极端和多元化的用户级反应有关。我们的结果表明，社区级的效果并不总是代表个人或较小用户群体的基本行为。我们通过讨论结果的实际和道德含义来结束。总体而言，我们的发现可以为有针对性的适度干预措施的发展提供信息，并为在线平台提供有用的指导。
Evaluating the effects of moderation interventions is a task of paramount importance, as it allows assessing the success of content moderation processes. So far, intervention effects have been almost solely evaluated at the aggregated platform or community levels. Here, we carry out a multidimensional evaluation of the user-level effects of the sequence of moderation interventions that targeted r/The_Donald: a community of Donald Trump adherents on Reddit. We demonstrate that the interventions: 1) strongly reduced user activity; 2) slightly increased the diversity of the subreddits in which users participated; 3) slightly reduced user toxicity; and 4) gave way to the sharing of less factual and more politically biased news. Importantly, we also find that interventions having strong community level effects are associated to extreme and diversified user-level reactions. Our results highlight that community-level effects are not always representative of the underlying behavior of individuals or smaller user groups. We conclude by discussing the practical and ethical implications of our results. Overall, our findings can inform the development of targeted moderation interventions and provide useful guidance for policing online platforms.
