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Title: Who Uses Bots? A Statistical Analysis of Bot Usage in Moderation Teams
Adopting new technology is challenging for volunteer moderation teams of online communities. Challenges are aggravated when communities increase in size. In a prior qualitative study, Kiene et al. found evidence that moderator teams adapted to challenges by relying on their experience in other technological platforms to guide the creation and adoption of innovative custom moderation "bots." In this study, we test three hypotheses on the social correlates of user innovated bot usage drawn from a previous qualitative study. We find strong evidence of the proposed relationship between community size and the use of user innovated bots. Although previous work suggests that smaller teams of moderators will be more likely to use these bots and that users with experience moderating in the previous platform will be more likely to do so, we find little evidence in support of either proposition.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1617129
PAR ID:
10220251
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1 to 8
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Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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