Conforming to the Flaming Norm in the Online Commenting Situation

@inproceedings{Moor2007ConformingTT,
  title={Conforming to the Flaming Norm in the Online Commenting Situation},
  author={Peter J. Moor},
  year={2007}
}

• Peter J. Moor
• Published 2007

A certain kind of online behavior, called flaming, consists of exhibiting hostility towards other people by insulting, swearing or using otherwise offensive language. An experiment has been conducted to test whether perceived norms have an effect on flaming behavior in the online commenting situation, a situation where people can comment on a certain stimulus. This has been done in a natural setting, where participants did not know about the experiment until they had commented on a text… CONTINUE READING

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