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Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap (www.tandfonline.com)
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Reddit might have yet another ticking bomb at hand: r/nofap becoming breeding grounds for violence.

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[โ€“] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Masturbation abstinence practices have returned to the USA in the form of semen retention communities.

Well, that's a combination of words I've never ever seen before.

Also, both this article and web site are weird. It's this strange combination of a "news article" and a research paper. Which is it?

This study uses a systematic search on r/NoFap and two control forums (r/pornfree, and r/stopdrinking) to define a corpus of violent content.

Well, there's a textbook definition of cherry-picking right there. Control group needs more than just two other forums.

Of the 421 violent posts identified from September 2011 to September 2022,

Oh boy, if I had a dollar for the amount of times I saw a news article reference a science paper with an abysmal sample size, I could use that money to buy a decent used car. It's the main problem on something like 98% of the science shit I've see here and on Reddit.

[โ€“] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It looks like a threat to ddos or dox someone counts, and if someone says 'jk' it doesn't count. Maybe they should use the_pack as a control.

[โ€“] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they should use several popular forums as a control?

[โ€“] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

I was mostly joking about having to understand the culture of a subreddit to really make any determinations.

[โ€“] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Maybe they should use several popular forums as a control?