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I don't want to imply anything with this comment but the number of accounts with the same or similar age as Cumberbatch participating in that thread is highly u
by pests 13y ago
I don't want to imply anything with this comment but the number of accounts with the same or similar age as Cumberbatch participating in that thread is highly unusual.
- TomGullen 13y agoYou forgot to mention the important fact that he's a new account. Seems perfectly plausible that people saw the AMA, and it spurred some lurkers to sign up a new account so they could ask a question.
- selmnoo 13y agoA lot of the accounts that were replying were not simply new, they were 3 days old -- incidentally also the age of the account with which Cumberbatch was participating in the AMA.
- gknoy 13y agoGiven the size of Reddit, I wonder what the probability distribution of new accounts would be be on an article.
- yohui 13y agoHow do you figure that? Manually checking the ages of accounts proved laborious and unrewarding.
- mwilcox 13y agoWith RES you can simply hover over the usernames of comments to check without loading a new page.