Darren Scott Appling

“Did You Suspect the Post Would be Removed?”: Understanding User Reactions to Content Removals on Reddit

Thousands of users post on Reddit every day, but a fifth of all posts are removed. How do users react to these removals? We conducted a survey of 907 Reddit users, asking them to reflect on their post removal a few hours after it happened. Examining the qualitative and quantitative responses from this survey, we prese…