[Air-L] Reddit Downvotes

[Kyle Kontour]

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
>
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>
> 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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