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Is This AI? Longitudinal Analysis of Strategies Used for AI Detection on Two Subreddits
Christina Yeung, Galen Weld, Jaron Mink +1
As AI-generated content (e.g., "slop") becomes more prevalent online, people are developing strategies to attempt to identify it (or, conversely, to gain confidence that something…
How Conversational Structure and Style Shape Online Community Experiences
Galen Weld, Carl Pearson, Bradley Spahn +3
Sense of Community (SOC) is vital to individual and collective well-being. Although social interactions have moved increasingly online, still little is known about the specific rel…
Reddit Rules and Rulers: Quantifying the Link Between Rules and Perceptions of Governance across Thousands of Communities
Leon Leibmann, Galen Weld, Amy X. Zhang +1
Rules are a critical component of the functioning of nearly every online community, yet it is challenging for community moderators to make data-driven decisions about what rules to…
Perceptions of Moderators as a Large-Scale Measure of Online Community Governance
Galen Weld, Leon Leibmann, Amy X. Zhang +1
Millions of online communities are governed by volunteer moderators, who shape their communities by setting and enforcing rules, recruiting additional moderators, and participating…
What Makes Online Communities 'Better'? Measuring Values, Consensus, and Conflict across Thousands of Subreddits
Galen Weld, Amy X. Zhang, Tim Althoff
Making online social communities 'better' is a challenging undertaking, as online communities are extraordinarily varied in their size, topical focus, and governance. As such, what…
Making Online Communities 'Better': A Taxonomy of Community Values on Reddit
Galen Weld, Amy X. Zhang, Tim Althoff
Many researchers studying online communities seek to make them better. However, beyond a small set of widely-held values, such as combating misinformation and abuse, determining wh…
Leveraging Community and Author Context to Explain the Performance and Bias of Text-Based Deception Detection Models
Galen Weld, Ellyn Ayton, Tim Althoff +1
Deceptive news posts shared in online communities can be detected with NLP models, and much recent research has focused on the development of such models. In this work, we use char…
Political Bias and Factualness in News Sharing across more than 100,000 Online Communities
Galen Weld, Maria Glenski, Tim Althoff
As civil discourse increasingly takes place online, misinformation and the polarization of news shared in online communities have become ever more relevant concerns with real world…
Adjusting for Confounders with Text: Challenges and an Empirical Evaluation Framework for Causal Inference
Galen Weld, Peter West, Maria Glenski +3
Causal inference studies using textual social media data can provide actionable insights on human behavior. Making accurate causal inferences with text requires controlling for con…