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  • Social Media Studies
  • Online Behavior Research
  • Information Science

Background:

  • Identity cues are prevalent on social media, with suggestions for their use in deterring harmful online behavior.
  • The precise effects of identity cues on user opinions and online interactions remain underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To estimate the causal effect of identity cues on opinion formation and content interaction.
  • To understand how identity cues influence user voting and replying behaviors on social content.

Main Methods:

  • A large-scale, longitudinal field experiment was conducted on a social news aggregation website.
  • Content was randomly assigned to 'identified' and 'anonymous' conditions to isolate the impact of identity cues.
  • Analysis focused on user voting and replying patterns in response to content.

Main Results:

  • Identity cues significantly influenced voting behavior, explaining 28%–61% of variation linked to commenter attributes.
  • Users voted faster on identified content, indicating heuristic processing.
  • Voting patterns were influenced by content producers' reputation, production history, and reciprocity.

Conclusions:

  • Identity cues mediate rich-get-richer dynamics and social inequalities in content evaluation.
  • Findings offer insights into the evolution of status within online communities.
  • Including votes on anonymized content could enhance platform content quality.