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“Experimentally, financial incentives for commenting reduced participation differentials, whereas we did not find effects from a civility norm treatment. These findings support preference- and incentive-based accounts of participation but suggest that light-touch interventions are unlikely to bridge participation gaps, let alone polarization.” Reddit-based study. Interesting that financial incentives can make political discussion more balanced. The new Farcaster stance may push this experiment to the next level notably in scale, and more multicultural (perhaps on the latter as there is homogeneity here). https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady8022 (Via 404’s The Abstract)

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