https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1405.1429/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574146urn:hackerpapers:mention:1405.1429:16574146Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:11:48 GMT<p>People attribute to malice what is best attributed to entropy The old reddit, allowed actual pedophiles to describe their issues in ask reddit threads. Theres even a dark ama where a relation which would make people ill, was discussed. ---- Unfortunately what social media is exposing, is weaknesses in how human beings agglomerate. If someone makes a forum for dead baby jokes - distasteful to many, but not harmful in private - it eventually attracts people who think that dead baby jokes are the norm. Or in worse terms - a sub for making offcolor jokes soon gets overrun by people who think off…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1405.1429/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15591085urn:hackerpapers:mention:1405.1429:15591085Tue, 31 Oct 2017 04:29:39 GMT<p>You are making many assumptions that need support. They are directly contradicted by relevant research. This study on the community effect of downvotes [1] came to rather different conclusions. They conclude that downvoting has a paradoxical effect. It actually incentivizes the poster to post even more content, of even lower quality. And just as importantly, upvotes similarly have no positive effects. They do not result in users posting more regularly, nor generating more well received content. Upvoted users actually tend to leave the community more quickly than downvoted users. The one and…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1405.1429/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7761557urn:hackerpapers:mention:1405.1429:7761557Sat, 17 May 2014 23:52:24 GMT<p>From the arXiv blog linked to by slashdot: Cheng and co began by compiling a dataset of the comments associated with news articles on four online communities: CNN.com, a general news site; Breitbart.com, a political new site; IGN.com, a computer gaming news site; and Allkpop.com, a Korean entertainment site. The data includes 1.2 million threads with 42 million comments and 114 million votes from 1.8 million different users. Are any of those sites famous for their effective community management? The arXiv submission: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1429</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1405.1429/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7760861urn:hackerpapers:mention:1405.1429:7760861Sat, 17 May 2014 19:51:38 GMT<p>Original paper: How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1429</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1405.1429/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SI