Preventing online harassment in r/science: Nathan Allen and Piper Below at #CSMIT2018
Channel: Citizens and Technology Lab
Date: 2018-05-29

The r/science community on reddit connects scientists with over 18 million people worldwide in conversations about their discoveries. With so many large-scale conversations, unruly behavior is common.

Nathan Allen and Piper Below, moderators of the 18-million subscriber science discussion community R/science, and CivilServant founder Nathan Matias talk about their work testing ways to prevent online harassment and improve newcomer engagement. 

This talk was presented at the CivilServant Community Research Summit at MIT in January 2018. 

Read more about their study design and results: https://civilservant.io/moderation_experiment_r_science_rule_posting.html
Visit r/science: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/
Read more about the summit: https://civilservant.io/civilservant_summit_report_jan_2018.html
And about CivilServant: https://civilservant.io/