Your social ties, your personal public sphere, your responsibility: How users construe a sense of personal responsibility for intervention against uncivil comments on Facebook

User intervention against incivility is a significant element of democratic norm enforcement on social media, and feeling personally responsible for acting vital prerequisite intervention. However, our insight into how users construe their sense personal responsibility expectations other remains limited. By theoretically foregrounding user perspective, this study investigates the boundaries nuances to intervene incivility. Empirically, it draws 20 qualitative vignette interviews with young people in Germany. The findings show that as contexts collapse users’ newsfeeds, imagined public spheres own relationships uncivil serve heuristics hierarchizing delimiting intervene. Beyond abstract individual discourse, practical distributed among spheres.