Representative Ranking for Deliberation in the Public Sphere

Representative Ranking for Deliberation in the Public Sphere

Abstract Online comment sections, like those on news sites or social media, have the potential to foster informal public deliberation. Yet this potential is often undermined by the frequency of toxic or low-quality exchanges that occur in these settings. To combat this problem, platforms are increasingly leveraging algorithmic ranking to facilitate higher-quality discussions, e.g., by using civility classifiers or forms of prosocial ranking. Howe