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Great tool! This site supports my suspicions that much of the activity on /r/The_Donald is the coordinated effort of a few individuals posting across multiple a
by DevX101 8y ago
Great tool! This site supports my suspicions that much of the activity on /r/The_Donald is the coordinated effort of a few individuals posting across multiple accounts. For those not familiar with this sub, it was created sometime during the 2016 election leadup and unabashedly supports Donald Trump with memes and shitposting. At one point, the entire frontpage of reddit was just posts from /r/The_Donald until reddit admins had to alter their algorithm to force the sub off.
If you look at the network graph for /r/The_Donald, it doesn't look...organic. There are 4 clearly delineated clusters of sub related to that sub. Posters to /r/The_Donald heavily post to /r/news & /r/politics, /r/TropicalWeather (?), /r/TwoXChromosomes (?) and /r/AskTheDonald (and other alt-right subs).
There's not much interaction with the rest of reddit. Posters from other subs don't also post content to the /r/The_Donald.
This is unusual.
Every other sub I've looked at there's a much more complex & dynamic graph where users post across various communities across the site. Every other major sub looks like a real network with dozens of interconnected links. Yet, /r/The_Donald, with almost 700,000 subscribers only has a strong connection to 4 clusters.
The alternate hypothesis is that people on that sub heavily use alternate accounts. This might also explain the lack of interaction with the site compared to other subs of similar size.
- zawerf 8y agoHe manually overrided some large subs: https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ae88pk/interactive_visualization_of_related_subreddits/ednceat/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ae88pk/int...
- DevX101 8y agoThanks! That's probably it then. I guess this doesn't support my hypothesis after all.