Toxicidade e Gatilhos: Um Estudo de Caso em Comunidades do Reddit no Brasil

• Giovana Piorino UFMG
• Luiz Henrique Quevedo Lima BEON.tech
• Adriana Silvina Pagano UFMG
• Ana Paula Couto da Silva UFMG

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/webmedia.2025.15984

Resumo

In this work, we aim to understand linguistic features that may indicate potential triggers fostering toxic behavior among users in Portuguese-speaking Reddit communities. Our findings show that discussions involving such triggers tend to concentrate political terms and insults, shift topics more frequently, and make greater use of subordinating conjunctions.

Palavras-chave: Toxicity Triggers, Discussion Trees, Linguistic Analysis

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