A new study links partisan activity on the Internet to widespread online toxicity, revealing that politically-engaged users exhibit uncivil behavior even in non-political discussions. The findings are based on an analysis of hundreds of millions of comments from over 6.3 million Reddit users.
Another reason why Reddit sucks: research like this is possible due to the Pushshift dataset. Now that Reddit is hostile towards data collection, it will be that much harder to study online discourse.
Another reason why Reddit sucks: research like this is possible due to the Pushshift dataset. Now that Reddit is hostile towards data collection, it will be that much harder to study online discourse.