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Science, AskScience,and BadScience:on the coexistence ofhighly related communities
Jack Hessel, Chenhao Tan, Lillian LeeCornell University
[Zachary 1977]
/r/wallpapers (370K Subscribers)
/r/wallpaper (157K Subscribers)
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5692Subreddits
887.5MComments in Context
88MPosts
Most work done by: Jason Baumgartner of pushshift.io and (Tan and Lee 2015)
All Posts and Comments from
2006-2014! E-mail me for full text :-)
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1. Affixes
/r/TrueAtheism = True + /r/Atheism
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/r/pokemon (494K Subscribers)
+True(6K Subscribers)
+RNG(1.5K Subscribers)
+Trades(37K Subscribers)
1. Affixes
/r/TrueAtheism = True + /r/Atheism
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1. Affixes
2. Topic
/r/TrueAtheism = True + /r/Atheism
or
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6.6M Text Posts 3.2K Communities[Blei et al. 2003]
Topic Distributions available from [Hessel et al. 2015]
Vegetarian
vegan (.975)Paleo (.944)
glutenfree (.917)nutrition (.884)
juicing (.881)VegRecipes (.832)
EatCheapAndHealthy (.831)fitmeals (.827)
food (.823)keto (.792)
1. Affixes
2. Topic
/r/TrueAtheism = True + /r/Atheism
or
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1. Affixes
2. Topic
/r/TrueAtheism = True + /r/Atheism
or
“Highly Related”
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1. Affixes
2. Topic
/r/TrueAtheism = True + /r/Atheism
or3. Founders are from original community
“Highly Related”
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1. Affixes
2. Topic
/r/TrueAtheism = True + /r/Atheism
or3. Founders are from original community
“Highly Related”
“Spinoff”
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Atheism
TrueAtheism
Atheism
TrueAtheism
Atheism
TrueAtheism
t
Atheism
TrueAtheism
t
Atheism
TrueAtheism
t
Post-interactionsPre-interactions
Atheism
TrueAtheism
t-w t t+w
Post-interactionsPre-interactions
Ask+GayBros
True+tf2
GameDeals+Meta
cringe+pics
airsoft+market
GTA+online
space+porn
casual+pokemontrades
canada+guns
music+videos
More Active
in Original
Less Active
in Original
More Active
in Original
“Action”
“Better”
“Parody”
“Derivative”
“Generation”
“Subject”
“Learning/Improvement”
“Medium”
“Genre”
“Place”
“nsfw”
Questions?
Contact:[email protected]@jmhessel
Thanks to David Mimno + Mor Naaman for their helpful comments.
Credits
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