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Bad actors never sleep: content manipulation on Reddit
Continuum ( IF 2.139 ) Pub Date : 2021-09-28 , DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2021.1983254
Martin Potter 1
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ABSTRACT

The self-proclaimed front page of the internet, Reddit is a many faceted site, described variously as an assemblage of online communities, a social news aggregation website and a social media site. Reddit is one of the most popular sites online both in terms of visitation and interaction. Central to Reddit’s popularity is its active community of users who contribute posts, comments and votes to subreddits resulting in a series of constantly changing bulletin boards comprised of over 3 billion submissions annually. Since its inception in 2005, Reddit has generated polarized engagement and responses to this community activity from wildly positive to highly toxic. Recent developments around perceived political manipulation of and on Reddit and accusations of content manipulation and censorship have raised questions of trust in the Reddit platform. Since 2019 Reddit has sought to identify and mitigate bad actor behaviour, address content manipulation and maintain the site’s authenticity and the historical context of Reddit’s attempts to address each is of central concern to this article. How this history then intersects with contemporary ideas of digital resignation and commons-based models of management informs analysis in the article on moderation practices, opens up new possibilities for future research into concepts of platform literacy and structural (digital) imagination.



中文翻译:

坏演员从不睡觉:Reddit 上的内容操纵

摘要

自称为互联网头版的 Reddit 是一个多方面的网站,被不同地描述为在线社区、社交新闻聚合网站和社交媒体网站的集合。Reddit 是最受欢迎的在线网站之一,无论是访问量还是互动量。Reddit 受欢迎的核心是其活跃的用户社区,他们为 subreddit 贡献帖子、评论和投票,从而产生了一系列不断变化的公告板,每年有超过 30 亿次提交。自 2005 年成立以来,Reddit 已经对这一社区活动产生了两极分化的参与和反应,从非常积极到高度有害。最近围绕 Reddit 的政治操纵以及对内容操纵和审查的指控的最新进展引发了对 Reddit 平台的信任问题。自 2019 年以来,Reddit 一直试图识别和减轻不良行为者的行为,解决内容操纵问题并维护网站的真实性,而 Reddit 试图解决每个问题的历史背景是本文的核心关注点。这段历史如何与当代数字辞职思想和基于公地的管理模型相交,为关于节制实践的文章中的分析提供信息,为未来对平台素养和结构(数字)想象概念的研究开辟了新的可能性。

更新日期:2021-09-28
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