{"id":226913,"date":"2025-12-11T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/reddit-field-experiment-examines-what-distinguishes-lurkers-from-power-users"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:28:00","slug":"reddit-field-experiment-examines-what-distinguishes-lurkers-from-power-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/reddit-field-experiment-examines-what-distinguishes-lurkers-from-power-users","title":{"rendered":"Reddit field experiment examines what distinguishes lurkers from power users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reddit-field-experiment-examines-what-distinguishes-lurkers-from-power-users2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Online discussions are often dominated by a small group of active users, while the majority remain silent. This imbalance can distort perceptions of public opinion and fuel polarization.<\/p>\n<p>In a group-based field experiment on Reddit, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, TU Dresden, and Stanford University have investigated why some people remain silent readers (\u201clurkers\u201d) while others are particularly active (\u201cpower users\u201d)\u2014and which measures might encourage people to join the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Results from the experiment are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.ady8022\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online discussions are often dominated by a small group of active users, while the majority remain silent. This imbalance can distort perceptions of public opinion and fuel polarization. In a group-based field experiment on Reddit, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, TU Dresden, and Stanford University have investigated why some people remain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}