My friend FireBatVillain drew my attention to the following study: You Can’t Stay Here, The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech. He points out that this study indicates after hateful subreddits were banned from Reddit, the removal of the offending subreddits did not cause “hate speech” to increase on other parts of the site—on the contrary, even subreddits that saw an influx of users who had formerly used the banned areas did not see significant changes in “hate speech” usage.
In other words, this study shows an instance where the existence of spaces for certain types of bad content was increasing their prevalence, and removing those spaces did not cause the content to “spill back” into the rest of the site.
Now, one difference between this and my original claim is that the spaces in question were not explicitly containment areas—however, I still consider this to be relevant supporting evidence.
My friend FireBatVillain drew my attention to the following study: You Can’t Stay Here, The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech. He points out that this study indicates after hateful subreddits were banned from Reddit, the removal of the offending subreddits did not cause “hate speech” to increase on other parts of the site—on the contrary, even subreddits that saw an influx of users who had formerly used the banned areas did not see significant changes in “hate speech” usage.
In other words, this study shows an instance where the existence of spaces for certain types of bad content was increasing their prevalence, and removing those spaces did not cause the content to “spill back” into the rest of the site.
Now, one difference between this and my original claim is that the spaces in question were not explicitly containment areas—however, I still consider this to be relevant supporting evidence.