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Politically biased moderation drives echo chamber formation (for Reddit) (2024)

27 pointsby 25d agopapers.ssrn.com
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25d agoHN ↗

In a related research paper, scientists proved that water is wet.

24d agoHN ↗

I wonder how these kinds of papers get funding at all…

24d agoHN ↗

/r/Italy is the perfect example for this study

24d agoHN ↗

The 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.

24d agoHN ↗

It’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

24d agoHN ↗

It’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.

22d agoHN ↗

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.

23d agoHN ↗

The Seattle subreddit and a bunch of other Washington state subreddits do this and instantly ban any non-woke content.