Paper ID: 2204.08806

Understanding Toxicity Triggers on Reddit in the Context of Singapore

Yun Yu Chong, Haewoon Kwak

While the contagious nature of online toxicity sparked increasing interest in its early detection and prevention, most of the literature focuses on the Western world. In this work, we demonstrate that 1) it is possible to detect toxicity triggers in an Asian online community, and 2) toxicity triggers can be strikingly different between Western and Eastern contexts.

Submitted: Apr 19, 2022