Galen Weld @ CSCW

That should be 4:30 pm 🤦🤦

I'd love to chat with you about it! Download data here behavioral-data.github.io/moderator_pe...

In the paper, we assess rule enforcement👮‍♀️, moderator workload😵,and moderator engagement🤝.

We developed the first automatic method to measure governance outcomes, by looking at how community members talk about their moderators.🗣️We collect all discussion for the top 10k subreddits over 5+ years💾 which we make public!

Moderators face lots of decisions about how to moderate.🤷‍♀️How can we empirically determine the best moderation practices?🤔Surveys don't scale! 📋

If you're at @acm-cscw.bsky.social #cscw
in Bergen, come check out our 🏆honorable mention paper today on Reddit community governance (w/
@axz.bsky.social @timalthoff.bsky.social ). 4pm in Dovregubben-2! More in thread... 🧵

Some nice coverage of our paper (and award) from ICWSM back in June. Big congrats to @lleibm.bsky.social on his successful first author paper, and big things to @timalthoff.bsky.social and @axz.bsky.social for their support as always!

Also, I know it’s the end of the day, but I am chairing the last 2 #ICWSM sessions on Virality, Political Coordination, & Reddit. These are going to be great sessions with work from
@zsavvas90.bsky.social @imadityav.bsky.social @tanumitra.bsky.social @munmun10.bsky.social
+more! Don’t miss it :)

Super surprised and honored to receive the single Best Paper award at #ICWSM this year (out of 138 papers) for my work with @lleibm.bsky.social, @axz.bsky.social, @timalthoff.bsky.social on Reddit Rules!

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Come to our talk in the 1pm session to learn more, and check out our paper:
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Amongst other things, we find that rules phrased prescriptively (“do this”) are received more positively than those phrased restrictively (“don’t do that”), and that the effect of adding new rules is initially positive, but wears off after ~ 6 months.

We associate these rules with key community outcomes: how do community members talk about their moderators? We classify comments discussing moderators according to their sentiment, and we make these datasets public.

We classify rules from 5.2k subreddits, capturing more than 2/3s of all activity on reddit, according to their tone (does the rule say what or what not do do), target (does the rule address content, formatting, or users) and topic (twelve specific topics).

If you're at #ICWSM, be sure to swing by the spotlight session after lunch to check our our work on Reddit rules with @axz.bsky.social , @timalthoff.bsky.social and Leon Leibmann!

Leon is presenting an analysis of 68k rules across 5 yrs, connecting them to important community outcomes. 

We've got a great set of authors including @skairam.bsky.social @mbernst.bsky.social @ceshwar.bsky.social @cfiesler.bsky.social @estellesmithphd.bsky.social!

More details here: programs.sigchi.org/cscw/2024/pr...

If you're at #CSCW2024 and interested in social platform data access, you should come to our SIG on Community-Driven Models for Supporting Research on Social Platforms! We'll be talking about data access for academics on platforms such as Reddit. Happening in 1 hour in room Cartago!