Hybrid Approaches to Detect Comments Violating Macro Norms on Reddit

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In this dataset paper, we present a three-stage process to collect Reddit comments that are removed comments by moderators of several subreddits, for violating subreddit rules and guidelines.

• Other than the fact that these comments were flagged by moderators for violating community norms, we do not have any other information regarding the nature of the violations.
• Through this procedure, we collect over 2M comments removed by moderators of 100 different Reddit communities, and publicly release the data.
• Working with this dataset of removed comments, we identify 8 macro norms---norms that are widely enforced on most parts of Reddit.