How can online communities execute a focused vision for their space? Curation offers one
approach, where community leaders manually select content to share with the community …

Asking and answering questions are inseparable parts of human social life. The primary
purposes of asking questions are to gain knowledge or request help which has been the …

Live streaming platforms and existing viewer participation tools enable users to interact and
engage with an online community, but the anonymity and scale of chat usually result in the …

Content moderation is a widely used strategy to prevent the dissemination of irregular
information on social media platforms. Despite extensive research on developing automated …

Discussions about project values are important for engineering software that meets diverse
human needs and positively impacts society. Because value-related discussions involve …

Counterspeech, ie, direct responses against hate speech, has become an important tool to
address the increasing amount of hate online while avoiding censorship. Although AI has …

Online conversations are particularly susceptible to derailment, which can manifest itself in
the form of toxic communication patterns like disrespectful comments or verbal abuse …

Growing evidence shows that proactive content moderation supported by AI can help
improve online discourse. However, we know little about designing these systems, how …

Facilitated dialogue is increasingly popular as a method of civic engagement and as a
method for gathering social insight, but resources for its study are scant. We present Fora, a …

Community rules play a key part in enabling or constraining the behaviors of members in
online communities. However, little is unknown regarding whether and to what degree …