Volunteer moderators of online platforms have done fundamental work to foster social relations for over forty years. Moderators create, support, and control public discourse for millions of people, even as their uncompensated labor upholds platform funding models. In this paper, I examine the “civic labor” of moderators on the social news platform reddit, where a strike by over two thousand sub...

We estimate the parameters of a reputational game of political competition using data from five two-party parliamentary systems. We find that latent party preferences (and party reputations) persist with high probability across election periods, with one exception: parties with extreme preferences who find themselves out of power switch to moderation with higher probability than the equivalent ...

this study was performed based on 482 questionnaires from 30 food companies' salespeople which contained 39-items. for testing the model, multilevel approach and hlm 6.05 was used. the main effects of basic physiological needs (relatedness, competency and autonomy) and moderation and main effects of competitive climate and collective sales efficacy were investigated. results showed related...

We describe the CoJACK cognitive architecture. It is designed to provide an intuitive, high level behaviour representation language that exhibits variability across individuals and across time for use in synthetic environments. The included moderator layer enables modelling of physiological factors and affect. We report initial results of an investigation of variability and time-based moderatio...

The volatility of output and inflation has varied substantially across countries and over time. While the global economy was very turbulent in the 1970s, macroeconomic volatility declined sharply in the following years in what has been termed the ‘Great Moderation’. This decline took place to different extents in different countries. In the United States, for example, the Great Moderation is us...

© 2005 Society for the Study of Addiction Addiction, 100 , 293–298 challenge could now be made to leaders in the alcohol treatment field in the United States. Low-risk drinking outcomes are a documented pathway to recovery in the United States as in other countries. Importantly, having moderation services available could facilitate such recoveries. Yet, advocacy for such services, even by gover...

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long-run income growth. This mean-pres...