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I'm afraid that our research group was the reason that Reddit removed access to the vote count. Not that it has stopped us from doing research on reddit... We
by coreyp_1 10y ago
I'm afraid that our research group was the reason that Reddit removed access to the vote count. Not that it has stopped us from doing research on reddit... We submitted another paper a week or so ago, and will be releasing or dataset upon publication.
- minimaxir 10y agoThat's unlikely. For clarification, only the breakdown of up/downs was hidden, not the overall score, and it was hidden because when people saw posts with tons of downvotes, it invited more downvotes.
- coreyp_1 10y agoAlexis Ohanian visits Notre Dame, & specifically meets with my advisor. We show them what we are working on in regards to analyzing Reddit (probably not the wisest thing to show them a work in progress, before all the data is collected). They're not thrilled about it. A few weeks later, a crucial part of the information is gone. You tell me.
- minimaxir 10y agoThe change happened in 2014 (http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/28hjga/reddit_changes_individual_updown_vote_counts_no/ http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/28hjga/reddit...), when Ohanian had less of an affiliation with Reddit.
- coreyp_1 10y agoThat's also when he came to Notre Dame.
- pmarreck 10y agoWhat does your research entail? Sounds tantalizing
- coreyp_1 10y agohttp://dsg.nd.edu/soc.html http://dsg.nd.edu/soc.html I'm in the same lab, but I don't work on the Reddit projects currently (although I am on the most recently submitted paper, which, due to it not being accepted yet, is not on the website, either).
- pmarreck 10y agooh wow. this is like data porn for me. (I was a Psych major at Cornell, and am a programmer now.)