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You 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 n
by TomGullen 13y ago
You 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.