"Don’t Downvote A\$\$\$\$\$\$s!!": An Exploration of Reddit’s Advice Communities

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dc.contributor.authorCannon, Emily
dc.contributor.authorCrouse, Bianca
dc.contributor.authorGhosh, Souvick
dc.contributor.authorRihn, Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorChua, Kristen
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-24T17:44:47Z
dc.date.available2021-12-24T17:44:47Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-04
dc.description.abstractAdvice forums are a crowdsourced way to reinforce cultural norms and moral behavior. Sites like Reddit contain massive amounts of natural language human interaction, with rules and norms unique to each individual subreddit community. To explore this data, we created a dataset with top 1000 posts from each of two such forums, r/AmItheAsshole and r/relationships, and extracted natural language features including sentiment, similarity, word frequency, and demographics using both algorithmic and manual methods. Further, we developed a method to extract demographic information from the subreddits, examined how the post authors’ self-disclosures reflect the unique communities in which their posts are shared, and discussed how the authors’ language use choices might be related to broader social patterns. We observed some differences between the subreddits in terms of word frequency, demographics disclosure, and gendered language. In general, both subreddits had more female posters than male, and posters tended to use more words about their opposite gender than the same. Gender-diverse posters were uncommon. Implications for future research include a more careful, inclusive focus on identity and disclosure and how that interacts with advice-seeking behavior in online communities.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2022.363
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-5-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/79697
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectData Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning for Social Media
dc.subjectcommunity advising
dc.subjectgenderness
dc.subjectreddit
dc.subjectsentiment
dc.subjectsocial media analysis
dc.title"Don’t Downvote A\$\$\$\$\$\$s!!": An Exploration of Reddit’s Advice Communities
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