APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Why be Kind When They Are Toxic? Strategies Employed By Benevolent Repliers to Toxicity Online
- Alison Young
Houghton University - Kristian Veit
Olivet Nazarene University - Elizabeth Gassin
Olivet Nazarene University - Jonathan Case
Houghton College
Abstract
In Young Reusser et al. (2021), 39% of replies to machine-learning-classified toxic Reddit comments from January 2016 were rated as benevolent. Our coders rated the extent to which the top 669 most-benevolent replies appeared to be correcting vs. going along with each toxic comment. Correcting was a more common strategy.
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