Synthesized Social Signals: Computationally-Derived Social Signals from Account Histories

This post summarizes a research paper that suggests a new type of social signal on social platforms. This paper was accepted to the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, a premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. This work was done with Sonali Tandon, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Taylor Denby, and Eric Gilbert.

What if we can know an account is toxic before interacting with it online? It would save us so much energy — you can avoid/mute/block…