Sarah Gilbert

"I run the world's largest historical outreach project and it's on a cesspool of a website.'' Moderating a public scholarship site on Reddit: A case study of r/AskHistorians

Online communities provide important functions in their participants' lives, from providing spaces to discuss topics of interest to supporting the development of close, personal relationships. Volunteer moderators play key roles in maintaining these spaces, such as creating and enforcing rules and modeling normative b…