The Consent of the Crowd Detected in an Open Forum

Mattias Mano (), Jean-Michel Dalle and Joanna Tomasik ()
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Mattias Mano: UP1 UFR02 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - École d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, I3 SES - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation de Telecom Paris - Télécom Paris - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CRG - Centre de Recherche en Gestion - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique - UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 - CentraleSupélec - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Joanna Tomasik: GALaC - LRI - Graphes, Algorithmes et Combinatoire (LRI) - LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique - UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 - CentraleSupélec - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CentraleSupélec

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Abstract: Within Reddit, Change My View is a specific debate forum where anyone can expose her or his view on a given topic and ask the crowd to provide counter-arguments with the aim of potentially changing this view. CMV uses a dual reward system according to which a) anyone, often the person who had asked the initial question, can highlight and acknowledge an argument (a post) by giving it a "delta" (Δ) and b) anyone can up- or down-vote one or several posts in a discussion. We take advantage of this dual reward system to investigate a phenomenon we call the Consent of the Crowd. Our results provide evidence on the use of the up-vote reward system by the crowd in order to express a dissent against the Δ reward. This phenomenon may be observed when not enough contributors got a chance to join the discussion before the Δ is granted. Our result highlights the necessity for forum moderators to foster discussion between as many participants as possible before closing discussions.

Date: 2018-08-22
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Published in OpenSym, Aug 2018, Paris, France. pp.1-9, ⟨10.1145/3233391.3233538⟩

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DOI: 10.1145/3233391.3233538

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