Digital Community Moderation Values: Politics, News, and Hot Beverages on Reddit

Abstract

Across social media, major concerns over content moderation, policy ethics, and community values have revealed a pressing need for guidelines and boundaries for digital communication. By examining several of reddit’s forums, we show how these values translate into rules that aid moderators in scaffolding and maintaining their communities. Considering such codes of ethics as part of our work in internet studies, we use these codes and guidelines to uncover how these models can support healthy communities and resist bad actors.