Nov 17, 2017

And from what I understand, it's been quite effective, too [1]. It seems that removing abusive communities basically reduces the amount of abusive content overall, because there's one less community where that content is acceptable to share. So not as much of a "spillover effect" as feared, which is good news.

[1] http://comp.social.gatech.edu/papers/cscw18-chand-hate.pdf