This paper describes how people who lead communities on online platforms join together in
mass collective action to influence platform operators. I investigate this by analyzing a …

Online platforms face pressure to keep their communities civil and respectful. Thus, banning
problematic online communities from mainstream platforms is often met with enthusiastic …

Volunteer moderators of online platforms have done fundamental work to foster social
relations for over forty years. Moderators create, support, and control public discourse for …

Should social media platforms override a community's self-policing when it repeatedly break
rules? What actions can they consider? In light of this debate, platforms have begun …

Concerns over the spread of abusive content in social media have led online platforms to
explore large scale community-level forms of moderation. As an alternative to full bans …

Thousands of users post on Reddit every day, but a fifth of all posts are removed. How do
users react to these removals? We conducted a survey of 907 Reddit users, asking them to …

Anti-social behaviors in social media can happen both at user and community levels. While
a great deal of attention is on the individual as an 'aggressor,'the banning of entire Reddit …

Transparency in moderation practices is crucial to the success of an online community. To
meet the growing demands of transparency and accountability, several academics came …

Reddit has found its communities playing a prominent role in originating and propagating
problematic sociopolitical discourse. Reddit administrators have generally struggled to …

Recent concerns over abusive behavior on their platforms have pressured social media
companies to strengthen their content moderation policies. However, user opinions on these …