Ranking news comments by constructiveness, curiosity, and personal stories can significantly improve perceptions of respect, trustworthiness, and interest in the comment section, with effects varying by article context.
The Great Ban, a massive deplatforming operation on Reddit, caused 15.6% of affected users to abandon the platform, while those who remained reduced their toxicity by 6.6% on average. However, 5% of users increased their toxicity by more than 70% of their pre-ban level, indicating unintended consequences of the intervention.
Large vision-language models can effectively detect images used for the illicit online promotion of unsafe user-generated content games, outperforming existing unsafe image detectors.