News Finding: It's possible these communities just naturally foster heated debate among different subreddits.
Paper Finding: While these interactions are initiated by the highly active users of the source community, the attackers and defenders who actually get mobilized to participate in the negative mobilization are much less active than them-a finding that dovetails with psychological studies showing that peripheral group members are more likely to This is calculated using comments made in past 30 days.
News Context: Others, like r/nintendoswitch and r/hearthstone, are surprising to see on this list. It's possible these communities just naturally foster heated debate among different subreddits. The study's authors didn't speculate about why these communities were so controversial.
Paper Context: Overall, we find that negative mobilizations are initiated by a handful of communities that attack highly similar communities. While these interactions are initiated by the highly active users of the source community, the attackers and defenders who actually get mobilized to participate in the negative mobilization are much less active than them-a finding that dovetails with psychological studies showing that peripheral group members are more likely to This is calculated using comments made in past 30 days. ), and interestingly we see this effect even on Reddit, which is pseudonymous.