re: Disinfection vs Federation
@mazuba @realcaseyrollins @masterofthetiger Actually again; studies show that isolating off, and then doing isolated attempts at outreach is what reduces it. Not amplifying it out.
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re: Disinfection vs Federation
@isolategab @masterofthetiger@theres.life @mazuba What studies?
re: Disinfection vs Federation
@realcaseyrollins @masterofthetiger @mazuba
And this:
You Can’t Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech
User-level Effects of the Ban
Following Reddit’s 2015 ban, a large, significant percentage of treatment users from banned communities left Reddit (as compared to a cohort of control users). For the banned community users that remained active, the ban drastically reduced the amount of hate speech they used across Reddit by a large and significant amount.
Following the ban, Reddit saw a decrease of over 80% in the usage of hate words by r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown users (relative to their control groups).
Community-level Effects of the Ban
Following the banning of r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown, the affected users migrated to other parts of Reddit. The majority .... migrated to qualitatively different subreddits...
In simpler terms, the migrants did not bring hate speech with them to their new communities, nor did the longtime residents pick it up from them. Reddit did not “spread the infection”.
re: Disinfection vs Federation
@isolategab @mazuba @masterofthetiger@theres.life
Interesting they chose Reddit. What about the 4chan users who get banned and go to 8chan? And then get banned from 8chan and go to 16chan? These findings do not apply to all platforms.
