There are a few psychological and sociological theories that can help explain why anonymous forums may naturally tend towards negativity.
The separation from real-life consequences can result in people saying or doing things they wouldn't normally do, which can sometimes lead to negative behavior.
Some individuals derive satisfaction from creating conflict or distress for others online aka "trolling". Anonymous forums provide a fertile ground for trolls as they can typically act without direct consequences.
The larger the crowd, the less likely individuals are to take responsibility for a situation. In an anonymous forum, people might be less likely to step in and stop negative behavior, leading to a proliferation of such behavior.
Overtime this forum will see bots to promote propaganda of one company or to spread shit about other companies.
As a community there should be something around guidelines, rules, and constructs to reduce this. What are some of your suggestions?
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Because real identity platforms like LinkedIn end up being overly positive - people can barely be themselves, I think the fair picture lies somewhere between extreme positivity and negativity
Although I feel good behaviour comes through. Was very active on Reddit throughout since early 2010s, and while they had their bad moments, I’ve found it to be one of the most helpful and positive platforms if you follow the right places
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And that's because they have tons of moderation btw. Tbh the only real job of a social platform is to maintain sanctity and hygiene via moderation.
You’re very right. Everytime Reddit/Mods would try to overly Moderate, there would be huge outcry. But over time I think it’s important, it makes sure you move towards a good platform culture (even though there would always be messed up stuff on platform in some form)
Grapevine = Ranting Platform.
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I disagree with you. I'm active on LinkedIn and Twitter, one which is overtly fake positive and one which is waiting to rip you after one mistake.
Grapevine on other hand, made me feel accepted despite insecurities. It is nice how we are all good humans when we are not our name/role/company
Heck yes I think I’m actually better anonymously. Because I don’t hold back on writing out my thoughts, and my thoughts are positive(I think)
Nah. On the contrary, Large Anonymous Forums tend to gravitate towards higher cooperation, topic relevance, and Knowledge Transaction when no rules are strictly enforced.
Take a comparison between 4chan and Reddit, or between Twitter and Mastodon.
4chan operates through the rule of mutual cooperation and bullying the troll is highly encouraged. In absence of any appeal to authority figures, and instrumentation of appeal to authority; Community itself will eliminate the troll through not feeding it, and bullying them to death.
It also gives topic relevance a higher priority and this troll suppression is much more easier.
Reddit on the other hand suffered critically from Authority Battles, with mods utilizing powers to suppress all possible discussions which might not agree with them. This led to highest loss of freedom of speech. A social credit system was created and this people started with the "reddit speak".
Your question is nice, but extremely juvenile, devoid of actual research into human interaction as groups.
If you want to see what features to align, the best would be to hide a reply. Easiest andost impersonal.
People will see what they want to see
Disagree. 4chan and reddit grew because of moderation. Same with hackernews.
4chan has tons of rules! It has general rules and then additional rules for every single board.
Please read this lol 4chain.org/rules
I'm not active on 4chan as much as reddit but the fact that large groups automatically gravitate towards co-operation and topic relevance is a load of crap. As things scale i.e. become larger moderation becomes a need to have to maintain the health of a platform.
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I really liked the concept. It has best of both worlds. Easiest way to create content is audio, and consume is text.
However, I think it will suffer because it might not promote controversial stuff or negative comments.
Humans have...
Why be nice to random anonymous people.
Why are there not many really jezebel trolls on grapevine.
The reason twitter is better. Indians are too timid mostly.
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While you might argue that not everyone does that, and I would be the first one to agree to that. B...
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