Project Summary

This project is part of an investigation into the moderation ecosystems of top English-speaking left-wing and right-wing political subreddits. In particular, we looked at the overlap of moderators and their rules between these communities, with graph and LLM analysis, respectively. Overall, we noticed that the right-wing group had more overlap in both ways, especially in regards to shared moderators.

Authors

This research was done by Tess Eschebach and David Spitz for Nick Feamster's course on Internet Censorship.

Code Structure

• src contains our code, both Reddit scraping and analysis
• input contains our lists of top left-wing and right-wing subreddits along with notes
• subredditdata contains our collected data on moderators (anonymized) and rules from each subreddit
• graphs contains visualizations of moderator overlap using gephi

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the Github user almayor for allowing us to use their effective moderation overlap code and approach.