[Air-L] Reddit Downvotes

[Alex Leavitt]

To follow up with Kyle's comment, you can also use the API to get profile
information (though in my attempts I've also set up a web scraper to get
user profile info like karma scores, date joined, and awarded shields).
Still, the API only allows you to see the user's most recent 1000
posts/comments.

Alexander Leavitt
PhD Student
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
http://alexleavitt.com
Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>



On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Kyle Kontour <kkontour at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alex is spot on.  Also I would suggest that in /r/politics it may be
> fruitful to check the individual histories of the "controversial" posts
> and/or any downvoted posts within any of those threads:  unpopular
> views/posts seem likely to me to be posted either by people who hold
> consistently unpopular views, or who are trolling (the difference may not
> be clear).  That might give you some metadata to go on.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I've done a lot of work recently with reddit data. It's actually a
> > difficult issue of sampling unless you have access to their backend
> (which
> > I believe nobody has ever gotten). Unfortunately what you're asking is
> near
> > impossible.
> >
> > One thing you can do is sort by "controversial" (though this isn't "most
> > downvoted," it's only the most-even up-to-downvote ratio). Then you can
> > collect via the API the "top 1000" posts (or here, most controversial
> 1000)
> > by various date lengths (all time, past year, past month, today, etc.).
> >
> > As far as "near" impossible, if you're interested in a sub other than
> > /r/politics, you can start scraping every single post from a newly
> created
> > subreddit, so you have a population sample of the posts and their voting
> > scores. But with a long-time, active sub like /r/politics, you can't get
> > past the API limitations.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Alexander Leavitt
> > PhD Student
> > USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
> > http://alexleavitt.com
> > Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:23 AM, jose marichal <
> marichal at callutheran.edu
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Colleagues,
> > >
> > > A student of mine is doing a project looking at the most downvoted
> > articles
> > > in the sub-reddit "r/politics."  Does anyone know of a way to identify
> > the
> > > most "downvoted" links on the site?
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Jose
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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