‘Edit: I’m sorry for being offensive, this is getting downvoted and I feel terrible’: Implicit Social Norms as Governance in Identity-Based Communities
Published in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 2025
Recommended citation: Beadle, K., Warner, M., & Vasek, M. (2025). 'Edit: I'm sorry for being offensive, this is getting downvoted and I feel terrible': Implicit Social Norms as Governance in Identity-Based Communities. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2), 1-32. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3710900
We find self-disclosures and the number of replies a post receives is positively associated with editing behaviors, while the influence of scores on the likelihood of a message being edited is highly dependent on whether the message is a post or comment. Our qualitative analysis of posts, comments, and threads finds community norms are created, contested, and reinforced through the interactions between community and individual-level understanding of what it means to be non-binary. We propose a model for implicit norms as governance in identity-based communities, and discuss how platform designers can better use implicit norms to support governance in identity-based communities.
Recommended citation: Beadle, K., Warner, M., & Vasek, M. (2025). “ Edit: I’m sorry for being offensive, this is getting downvoted and I feel terrible”: Implicit Social Norms as Governance in Identity-Based Communities. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(2), 1-32.