Tracking Patterns in Toxicity and Antisocial Behavior Over User Lifetimes on Large Social Media Platforms
arxiv(2024)
摘要
An increasing amount of attention has been devoted to the problem of "toxic"
or antisocial behavior on social media. In this paper we analyze such behavior
at very large scales: we analyze toxicity over a 14-year time span on nearly
500 million comments from Reddit and Wikipedia, grounded in two different
proxies for toxicity.
At the individual level, we analyze users' toxicity levels over the course of
their time on the site, and find a striking reversal in trends: both Reddit and
Wikipedia users tended to become less toxic over their life cycles on the site
in the early (pre-2013) history of the site, but more toxic over their life
cycles in the later (post-2013) history of the site. We also find that toxicity
on Reddit and Wikipedia differ in a key way, with the most toxic behavior on
Reddit exhibited in aggregate by the most active users, and the most toxic
behavior on Wikipedia exhibited in aggregate by the least active users.
Finally, we consider the toxicity of discussion around widely-shared pieces of
content, and find that the trends for toxicity in discussion about content bear
interesting similarities with the trends for toxicity in discussion by users.
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