Here's the article. The best part is that the cluster that SRD, CB, ETS, etc. are in is the tightest of any other in the chart from what I saw, which means that there's hardly a difference between them.
/r/legaladvice is already a shitposting sub so the only people who hang out in /r/badlegaladvice are the smug college freshmen who flit around the other "bad" subs
Honestly /r/drama's average user is probably pretty close to South Park Neutral but that's only because the distribution of opinions here is wildly spread out in all directions, and probably no one user in particular is actually South Park Neutral.
The clustering in that image is from t-SNE clustering. Generally, points that are closer together are more similar and they are arranged to embed the maximum amount of information in the 2D space.
There's an explanation of the methods in the article. They did a semantic analysis to determine how similar the content is between subs. The axes are there because the points are plotted spatially by how similar they are to each other.
Yea, i asked the author of the article in his ama about whether we can reasonably use this to describe whether subs are homogeneous, polar, or heterogeneous.
In its most general sense k-means clustering is just a way of grouping different sets of means into different clusters. The way to interpret that graph is that Drama is not really close to any of the other subs listed. It gets grouped into one cluster but arguably doesn't really fit in.
The real question here is what exactly the means are. I think that answer is substantially more complex.
You're not necessarily grouping means, although you could. The 'means' part of k Means refers to minimizing within cluster distance from cluster means as a criterion for cluster assignment. In this particular case I also believe that the axes are different latent dimensions onto which sets of variables were mapped.
Ahhh my bad, thanks for the clarification. So it's the cluster means you're working with, and minimizing the residuals just like you would in a regression. Which...now that I'm writing it makes sense since the individual items won't actually have a mean since they only have a single measurement.
i'm really concerned that nothing in this post mentioned the eternal righteousness of our prophet muhammad or the inevitable and just destruction of the white race
are you feeling okay? have you been mixing pills and liquor again?
I've never taken a machine learning class so I don't actually know what that means. Is it a way of grouping things based on a similarity score or something?
k-means clustering is a method of vector quantization, originally from signal processing, that is popular for cluster analysis in data mining. k-means clustering aims to partition n observations into k clusters in which each observation belongs to the cluster with the nearest mean, serving as a prototype of the cluster. This results in a partitioning of the data space into Voronoi cells.
No look, it's simple. Take a feature vector with d features. Each of those features gives you a way to project that feature onto a line, right, 2 features lets you project it onto a plane, etc. So if you take say, these 3 feature vectors:
x1
x2
a
1
1
b
0
1
c
1
0
Then project it onto x1, it looks like this
0|b-------a|1
c
Then you have 2 clusters, (b) and (a, c).
Or onto x2:
0|c-------a|1
b
Again 2 clusters, (c) and (a, b)
or onto (x1,x2):
x2
1|b a
|
|
|
|
0|____________c_x1
0 1
With 3 clusters, (a), (b), (c).
Imagine that, but in d dimensional space and continuous, and that's clustering.
Is this from the 538 thing? People are getting salty about that article all over right now. I actually really like the result that Drama is fairly orthogonal, that seems correct to me.
What happens when you break r/The_Donald up into subgroups using subreddit subtraction? What happens when you add unrelated subreddits to r/The_Donald?
Well in both cases you come up with 50,322 combinations you can cherrypick from to make them look however you want. I wonder what the rest of the article looks like?
What happens when you filter out commenters’ general interest in politics? To figure that out, we can subtract r/politics from r/The_Donald
Yes, subscribing to /r/politics is an indication of general interest in politics, not an indication of rabid left wing nutjobbery. Holy shit this is terrible. Oh noes they're gamergators!
Lol is that last graph from that article? A lot of the graphs wouldn't load on my phone. I thought it was an interesting piece but that mixture graph is just silly.
Makes a bit more sense with actual data in it. If they have a proper model that works with the data in that kind of way then there's nothing wrong with using that kind of graph. That said I don't think you can do that kind of model with that data. Ternary graphs have, as a fundamental assumption, mutual exclusivity. If you add more of 1 then you have to take it from somewhere else. So like in a mixture of I add 5% more vodka I have to remove some cranberry juice and heroin to give space for that in the drink. I don't know if this kind of data works in that way.
Could be he's breaking down the vector components and saying that for a given vector some percentage of it is dominated by 1 of these three orthogonal(ish) vectors that defines the sample space, but the idea that the sample space can be determined by these three alone is a bit unlikely, and if there are other variables at play then a ternary graph won't work because they aren't summed to a set constant.
It's a shame though because the message he's trying to convey with that graph is very clear in the data he presents. The subs closest to The_Donald in that graph are clearly highly linked to The_Donald based on his linguistic vector analysis. Sometimes the desire to give the dum dums out there a visual cue can lead you into questionable graph choices.
subscribing to /r/politics is an indication of general interest in politics, not an indication of rabid left wing nutjobbery
If you think /r/politics is "rabid left wing nutjobbery", you don't know shit. They are mostly milquetoast liberals, and many are unironic smug clintonites.
I like SRD, for all its faults. It's not bad if you avoid the surplus threads, and it's great for getting into high-effort arguments if you're in the mood.
This is why I come to r/drama for all my current affairs. I don't know how FAKE NEWS msm doesn't get called out for not reporting on Kevin's birthday tbqhwyf.
It was done using a semantic analysis of the comments in each subreddit, so nobody was asked but everyone took part. Well, everyone whose comments got sampled.
Like, you're commenting here ironically, and wouldn't do that for real ever? The act of commenting? Because that's the only thing it uses, not the contents.
This is some cool stuff! I have a couple of questions:
why did you choose the metric you used to gauge similarity? how accurate do you think it is in terms of representing the actual similarity between the subs in terms of content and culture?
To me it was especially amazing that such a simple strategy was able to key in on the true central role that the divine feminine plays in Christianity.
I wonder how this squares with that old data bit that said that srd was one of the most toxic places on reddit, surely drama can do better with the obnoxious user pinging and intense relationship with various amateur porn proprietors and alt lite darlings.
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n/a SnapshillBot 2017-03-23
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n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-03-23
I believe this because I agree but where did you get these scientific sources?
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
that is where all thoughts should end, friend
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-03-23
Keeps me happy this way.
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
Here's the article. The best part is that the cluster that SRD, CB, ETS, etc. are in is the tightest of any other in the chart from what I saw, which means that there's hardly a difference between them.
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-03-23
Dope. Thanks!
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
oh! it's from this analysis. sweet!
there's currently an argument raging in the dickgirls modmail about it
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
pls screencap it for those of us without access
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
it's kinda just your standard insufferably smug v. intolerably dumb political slapfight
i'll do it when it dies down later
n/a alien122 2017-03-23
Hey riemann, can you add me back to dg?
n/a telandrias 2017-03-23
Shills confirmed!
n/a Ardvarkeating101 2017-03-23
Yeah! /r/40klore forever, cunts!
n/a TheFinalArgument1488 2017-03-23
i'd like to see /r/bitcoin v /r/btc because they hate each other.
n/a Hammer_of_truthiness 2017-03-23
I'm totally unsurprised to hear that. Frankly u guys should mod some contrarian user on the sub with oodles of High T Charisma to can the SRDines
n/a Pablopubes 2017-03-23
Sounds neat, who do you have in mind?
n/a squarefaces 2017-03-23
I think it's clear what he had in mind.
n/a _Norm_ 2017-03-23
arf arf
n/a ctrbeuk_exe 2017-03-23
/u/gallowboob?
n/a TheFinalArgument1488 2017-03-23
fuck that fag
in the ass
n/a TNBK 2017-03-23
I AMA High T Charismatic Male AMAA
n/a Pablopubes 2017-03-23
How's life buddy, glad to see you posting right now!
n/a TNBK 2017-03-23
Life is so good it's unfair to other people that I get it to live it. Sadly I stay fairly busy so I post less now.
n/a DoctorFahrenheit 2017-03-23
I was already a mod though.
n/a Kazruw 2017-03-23
I'd like to know how /r/badlegaladvice ended up so close to all the anarcho-commie subs like /r/anarchism, /r/socialism, /r/LateStageCapitalism, /r/FULLCOMMUNISM and /r/badlinguistics.
n/a DuckHuntHotDog 2017-03-23
the badx subs tend to have lots of communist/anarchist people.
n/a AntiLuke 2017-03-23
All except /r/badeconomics.
n/a clock_watcher 2017-03-23
The irony!
n/a Fucking_That_Chicken 2017-03-23
/r/legaladvice is already a shitposting sub so the only people who hang out in /r/badlegaladvice are the smug college freshmen who flit around the other "bad" subs
i was amused to see /r/legaladvice pop up in the middle of /r/popping, /r/fatpeoplestories, and /r/BDSMcommunity. honestly that seems about right
n/a nanonan 2017-03-23
None of those people have a job.
n/a ThatOtherPromise 2017-03-23
I for one am shocked, SHOCKED!
n/a I_DRINK_TO_FORGET 2017-03-23
If our mods weren't giant mayo pussies this would be a lefty sub in no time.
n/a LadyVetinari 2017-03-23
Thank god the mods are giant mayo pussies
n/a ur_mom_IoI 2017-03-23
n/a supergauntlet 2017-03-23
redpill me on k-means clustering
what are these axes even? is it saying /r/drama is right in the middle between /r/undelete and /r/subredditdrama?
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
yeah, it's a little unclear what this analysis is saying since i'm not sure what the observations are
but yes, without any details at all, i am prepared to say decisively that this means drama is directly in between those two dumpster fires
n/a Hammer_of_truthiness 2017-03-23
Does this mean we are the true South Park Neutrals sempai
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
no, kys you filthy liberal capitalist
n/a Hammer_of_truthiness 2017-03-23
Only when u starve to death first, red
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
can you imagine being an unironic capitalist and still being a povvo?
what a life
temporarily embarrassed millionaires and all that
n/a Hammer_of_truthiness 2017-03-23
Truly shameful. How does /u/zachums deal with it?
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
With lots of delicious IPAs.
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
mmmmmmmm
n/a Pablopubes 2017-03-23
Are they even hazy though?
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
I ain't no bitch.
n/a LedinToke 2017-03-23
drugs are bad mmkay
n/a Oxus007 2017-03-23
Rie is your sempai now?
Outrageous.
n/a Hammer_of_truthiness 2017-03-23
You're my sensei Oxus-sensei
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-03-23
Honestly /r/drama's average user is probably pretty close to South Park Neutral but that's only because the distribution of opinions here is wildly spread out in all directions, and probably no one user in particular is actually South Park Neutral.
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-03-23
Paging /u/the_reason_trump_won
n/a marsjazztrio 2017-03-23
I am.
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-03-23
right, aren't you one of the people who constantly calls themselves a National Security Expert or some shit
n/a marsjazztrio 2017-03-23
It's called education and experience while dipshits like you argue about things you know nothing about. I find it amusing.
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-03-23
hahahahaha what a dork
"I have personally wiretapped presidents while you were still in diapers, maggot!"
n/a buttsecksyermum 2017-03-23
hahahahaha what a dork.
"I have personally inseminated you while you were still in diapers, maggot!"
n/a squarefaces 2017-03-23
telling a doctoral student he doesn't education enough
lol wut?
n/a marsjazztrio 2017-03-23
He has no political education to speak of and zero real world experience. But he argues about it as if he's not an adult anarchist. It's quite qt
n/a WalterMatthau 2017-03-23
lol. What have you done ever other than sperg out on this board?
n/a marsjazztrio 2017-03-23
I'm glad you just conceded you don't know about the shit you argue about. Was it as cathartic as it looked
n/a ImNotPayingFullPrice 2017-03-23
This is reddit, education and experience in topics you're talking about aren't necessary, just strong anarchist feelings.
n/a double-happiness 2017-03-23
More like American Dad IMHO
n/a atakeonhooper 2017-03-23
A surprisingly hip-hop and 90s R&B loving show
n/a double-happiness 2017-03-23
One of the best use of hip-hop in cartoons has got to be the record-smashing scene out of Family Guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDVHAMv2YkA
n/a ferongr 2017-03-23
I hate all commies, marxists, anarchists, socialists, authoritarians, nazis and fascists equally. What does that make me.
n/a anothergodamnaccount 2017-03-23
A good person
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-03-23
someone who loves pretending they are superior to others without having to actually think about stuff
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-03-23
So much irony here
n/a ThatOtherPromise 2017-03-23
It was a good method to prove similarity though
Which confirms what everyone already thought though
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
i agree! /u/shorttails did a really good job. great stuff! very fun to read. i'd love to see similar analyses on reddit, or other social media!
yeah, it's interesting to see the degree of it, and some cool things came out of it!
like i saw one guy who subtracted /r/streetwear from /r/malefashionadvice and it yielded a bunch of more adult subs. literally filtered the kids, lol
n/a WearyTunes 2017-03-23
you might be interested in this
n/a shorttails 2017-03-23
The clustering in that image is from t-SNE clustering. Generally, points that are closer together are more similar and they are arranged to embed the maximum amount of information in the 2D space.
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
thanks dude!
i think it's really awesome how you've been all over reddit today, helping people engage with your analysis. super cool stuff!
any ideas of what you'll be looking into next?
n/a shorttails 2017-03-23
No problem, next I think I'll be looking into doing some more network analysis type stuff with the data.
n/a Assy-McGee 2017-03-23
you reached out to T_D mods for comments, but didn't bother to reach out to anyone from r/4chan, which was also on the list at number 5?
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
n/a CaptainMemer 2017-03-23
It’s a chart, so all I know is that it’s an authoritative source of information.
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
true
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
There's an explanation of the methods in the article. They did a semantic analysis to determine how similar the content is between subs. The axes are there because the points are plotted spatially by how similar they are to each other.
n/a WearyTunes 2017-03-23
Here ya go snally
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
Truly we are middle-of-the-road, or at least have a balance of two extremes.
n/a WearyTunes 2017-03-23
Yea, i asked the author of the article in his ama about whether we can reasonably use this to describe whether subs are homogeneous, polar, or heterogeneous.
I don't see why not, though.
n/a elwombat 2017-03-23
Semantic analysis? Sounds like Jewery to me.
n/a TheFinalArgument1488 2017-03-23
I'm an anti-semantic
n/a Hellkyte 2017-03-23
In its most general sense k-means clustering is just a way of grouping different sets of means into different clusters. The way to interpret that graph is that Drama is not really close to any of the other subs listed. It gets grouped into one cluster but arguably doesn't really fit in.
The real question here is what exactly the means are. I think that answer is substantially more complex.
n/a Velvet_Llama 2017-03-23
You're not necessarily grouping means, although you could. The 'means' part of k Means refers to minimizing within cluster distance from cluster means as a criterion for cluster assignment. In this particular case I also believe that the axes are different latent dimensions onto which sets of variables were mapped.
n/a Hellkyte 2017-03-23
Ahhh my bad, thanks for the clarification. So it's the cluster means you're working with, and minimizing the residuals just like you would in a regression. Which...now that I'm writing it makes sense since the individual items won't actually have a mean since they only have a single measurement.
n/a Velvet_Llama 2017-03-23
Yep, you got it. You're minimizing within cluster variation and maximizing between cluster variation.
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
i'm really concerned that nothing in this post mentioned the eternal righteousness of our prophet muhammad or the inevitable and just destruction of the white race
are you feeling okay? have you been mixing pills and liquor again?
n/a Velvet_Llama 2017-03-23
I think the problem is that I stopped mixing pills and liquor.
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
whatever it is, fix it
n/a Velvet_Llama 2017-03-23
It's baby's first clustering algorithm.
n/a supergauntlet 2017-03-23
I've never taken a machine learning class so I don't actually know what that means. Is it a way of grouping things based on a similarity score or something?
n/a sex_tourism 2017-03-23
Yes.
n/a double-happiness 2017-03-23
https://i.imgur.com/2RMOh.jpg
n/a thirdegree 2017-03-23
No look, it's simple. Take a feature vector with d features. Each of those features gives you a way to project that feature onto a line, right, 2 features lets you project it onto a plane, etc. So if you take say, these 3 feature vectors:
Then project it onto x1, it looks like this
Then you have 2 clusters, (b) and (a, c).
Or onto x2:
Again 2 clusters, (c) and (a, b)
or onto (x1,x2):
With 3 clusters, (a), (b), (c).
Imagine that, but in d dimensional space and continuous, and that's clustering.
Disclaimer, I'm pretty stoned.
n/a double-happiness 2017-03-23
KYS
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
GOOD post snally
but what are even the observations here tho
n/a crefakis 2017-03-23
That we have a good balance of autism
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-03-23
No, we just have a diversity of autism.
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
It's just a semantic analysis
n/a pepperouchau 2017-03-23
Ur a semantic analysis
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
wow rude!
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-03-23
Way to be anti-semantic
n/a Tiammatt 2017-03-23
The science is sound: were just bad people
n/a Hellkyte 2017-03-23
Is this from the 538 thing? People are getting salty about that article all over right now. I actually really like the result that Drama is fairly orthogonal, that seems correct to me.
n/a nanonan 2017-03-23
That article, holy crap.
Well in both cases you come up with 50,322 combinations you can cherrypick from to make them look however you want. I wonder what the rest of the article looks like?
Yes, subscribing to /r/politics is an indication of general interest in politics, not an indication of rabid left wing nutjobbery. Holy shit this is terrible. Oh noes they're gamergators!
Edit: Illuminati confirmed.
n/a Hellkyte 2017-03-23
Lol is that last graph from that article? A lot of the graphs wouldn't load on my phone. I thought it was an interesting piece but that mixture graph is just silly.
n/a nanonan 2017-03-23
Yes, it's from the article:
Interesting selection.
n/a Hellkyte 2017-03-23
Makes a bit more sense with actual data in it. If they have a proper model that works with the data in that kind of way then there's nothing wrong with using that kind of graph. That said I don't think you can do that kind of model with that data. Ternary graphs have, as a fundamental assumption, mutual exclusivity. If you add more of 1 then you have to take it from somewhere else. So like in a mixture of I add 5% more vodka I have to remove some cranberry juice and heroin to give space for that in the drink. I don't know if this kind of data works in that way.
Could be he's breaking down the vector components and saying that for a given vector some percentage of it is dominated by 1 of these three orthogonal(ish) vectors that defines the sample space, but the idea that the sample space can be determined by these three alone is a bit unlikely, and if there are other variables at play then a ternary graph won't work because they aren't summed to a set constant.
It's a shame though because the message he's trying to convey with that graph is very clear in the data he presents. The subs closest to The_Donald in that graph are clearly highly linked to The_Donald based on his linguistic vector analysis. Sometimes the desire to give the dum dums out there a visual cue can lead you into questionable graph choices.
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-03-23
I read that bottom to top and lost my shit when it listed the_Donald similar subs
n/a thefran 2017-03-23
If you think /r/politics is "rabid left wing nutjobbery", you don't know shit. They are mostly milquetoast liberals, and many are unironic smug clintonites.
n/a nanonan 2017-03-23
Thanks for the laugh nutjob.
n/a thefran 2017-03-23
Hey, you're the one who thinks clintonites are literal communists, cretin.
How's those underground tunnels to a basement of a building that doesn't have a basement look like?
n/a nanonan 2017-03-23
"At least they're not communists" is hardly a rebuttal seeing as many are.
n/a thefran 2017-03-23
Nah, don't try anything, I'm not letting you get away with that.
n/a OniTan 2017-03-23
Then why the fuck do you mod the shithole that is /r/subredditdrama?
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
I like SRD, for all its faults. It's not bad if you avoid the surplus threads, and it's great for getting into high-effort arguments if you're in the mood.
n/a ThatOtherPromise 2017-03-23
Can you add the badX subs, the political ones, and the meta ones?
I already know where everything is going to fall but it will be fun!
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
The whole analysis is here. I'm not sure where the badx subs fall on the map, somewhere outside of the metasphere cluster and possibly spread around.
n/a DuckHuntHotDog 2017-03-23
WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK
n/a SithisTheDreadFather 2017-03-23
n/a DuckHuntHotDog 2017-03-23
you're not wrong about me, but defending srdines is basically a war crime
n/a Velvet_Llama 2017-03-23
Only tryhard spastics fail to recognize that SRD is usually pretty good.
n/a DuckHuntHotDog 2017-03-23
If I wasn't a tryhard spastic, I wouldn't be regularly posting in a sub that has a majority of commenters telling each other to kill themselves.
n/a LedinToke 2017-03-23
WHAT THE FUCK
n/a DuckHuntHotDog 2017-03-23
Jesus, this isn't even wrong or hyperbole. We really are the South Park Neutrals.
Time to kill ourselves.
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
Do it first and we'll follow.
n/a DuckHuntHotDog 2017-03-23
k i'll post image of my corpse with timestamp but you have to do it afterwards or i'll be mad and reeee at satan or something about it
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
That sounds fair.
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
While we're talking about important things, today is Kevin's 1st birthday. Here's a comparison shot from when we first got him.
n/a Pablopubes 2017-03-23
Now this is the quality content I come to drama for. Thanks Zachums, don't let him eat too much cake.
n/a squarefaces 2017-03-23
This is why I come to r/drama for all my current affairs. I don't know how FAKE NEWS msm doesn't get called out for not reporting on Kevin's birthday tbqhwyf.
n/a SaintJason 2017-03-23
Of all the dogs you could have picked you choose a shit faced Pug. Put him to sleep and get a Huskie.
n/a Kazruw 2017-03-23
Looks like he came to you as a happy and innocent little puppy, but reading /r/drama modmail has left a permanent frown on his face.
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
There are many casualties when modding this subreddit, unfortunately.
n/a GoMLism 2017-03-23
http://sketchtoy.com/67515182
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
Thanks gom!
n/a Nomadlads 2017-03-23
That's cute as fuck.
n/a YHofSuburbia 2017-03-23
Such a cute dog doesn't deserve such a terrible owner. The universe is too cruel sometimes.
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
I treat him better than I do myself, honestly.
n/a YHofSuburbia 2017-03-23
I was talking about you personally tbqhwyf, not your treatment of Kevin. Btw when are you gonna kys
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
When you say "terrible owner" it implies that I'm treating him poorly. l2engrish
And I would never want to deprive the world of my greatness, so probably never.
n/a YHofSuburbia 2017-03-23
Don't get snippy with me
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
✂
n/a Minimum_T-Giraff 2017-03-23
4 / 10 pugs. Has he yet begun with the annoying pug breathing?
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
happy birthday kevin
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
I'll let him know, thanks snall pal.
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
Thanks!
n/a WorseThanHipster 2017-03-23
dawwww
n/a ason 2017-03-23
Found a really adorable pic of you and Kevin..
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
tbh, super drunk and single me totally would
n/a Awayfone 2017-03-23
Is that a new care bear?
n/a AntiLuke 2017-03-23
Your dog is cute and you should tell him he's cute.
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
I'll let him know, thanks Luke!
n/a LedinToke 2017-03-23
:D
n/a Oxus007 2017-03-23
SRD mods were a mistake.
Drama mods are great though.
Mod both? You must be an enlightened Angel.
n/a DoctorFahrenheit 2017-03-23
So, do you guys just make snally do everything over there too?
Also, modding me is the only way to fix SRD.
n/a StopTalkingOK 2017-03-23
enlightened angelSpastic retard.
n/a darth_stroyer 2017-03-23
Without Prince we would probably be stormfront tbh.
n/a bleasehalb 2017-03-23
There's a decent amount of stealth reds in this sub.
n/a KorianHUN 2017-03-23
We need helicopters?
n/a atakeonhooper 2017-03-23
what do you mean stealth you nondialectical shit?
n/a Will0saurus 2017-03-23
Spreading class conscience one shitpost at a time
n/a pointmanzero 2017-03-23
Nobody ever asked me my opinion.
Did you guys get a survey or something?
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
It was done using a semantic analysis of the comments in each subreddit, so nobody was asked but everyone took part. Well, everyone whose comments got sampled.
n/a TSwizzlesNipples 2017-03-23
I'd like to sample your bussy.
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
discuss.
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-03-23
Yes, feminine bussy is a thing.
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
thx
n/a pointmanzero 2017-03-23
But....... Sarcasm though.
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-03-23
Like, you're commenting here ironically, and wouldn't do that for real ever? The act of commenting? Because that's the only thing it uses, not the contents.
n/a Velvet_Llama 2017-03-23
I believe that they were mapping based on user ID, not the content of comments.
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
Oh, you're probably right. I just skimmed the methods section.
n/a Zachums 2017-03-23
literal
heroin
n/a Evolution-Happens 2017-03-23
I can't help but find this cluster funny
n/a LadyVetinari 2017-03-23
Awwwww :(
n/a Works_of_memercy 2017-03-23
No /r/menslib? Or are they actually on the smug end of the spectrum?
n/a sadrice 2017-03-23
We're mostly smug, with a handful of miserable people and a smattering of everyone else.
n/a PadaV4 2017-03-23
Well color me surprised (well actually not surprised at all..)
n/a TSwizzlesNipples 2017-03-23
I've argued with /u/Ciceros_Assassin and /u/Dewey_Darl several times about how the philosophy of MensLib is shit and this proves it.
n/a Ls777 2017-03-23
That shouldn't be surprising at all, Menslib was created specifically as an alternative to the men's rights sub since they didn't like that sub
n/a LedinToke 2017-03-23
jesus christ that made me laugh
n/a chaosakita 2017-03-23
Where's this from? Link plz
n/a Evolution-Happens 2017-03-23
Not exactly the easiest thing to use, just kinda have to mess around and look all over the place
n/a Hellkyte 2017-03-23
Men go their own way down that dark path
n/a wh0mping 2017-03-23
LITERALLY ON SUICIDE WATCH
n/a YourGayOpinion 2017-03-23
Imagine being into trannies when you could be into this https://twitter.com/hashtag/SlimGirlTwitter?src=hash
smh
n/a LadyVetinari 2017-03-23
Arent you cucking yourself in Jamaica? Or is that the other rightie mayo?
n/a YourGayOpinion 2017-03-23
I think you got the wrong number, shawty.
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-03-23
Ah so this is what a circle jerk looks like on paper
n/a TheFinalArgument1488 2017-03-23
and 4chan is literally a 50/50 split between fascists and libertarians.
funny how the non-pc areas of the internet are the most diverse.
n/a ur_mom_IoI 2017-03-23
n/a TheFinalArgument1488 2017-03-23
this
it's why 4chan stopped that pizzagate investigation
n/a thefran 2017-03-23
n/a shorttails 2017-03-23
Author of the article (and that visualization tool) here, happy to answer any questions!
n/a IAmAN00bie 2017-03-23
How many people have accused you of being a cuck today?
n/a snallygaster 2017-03-23
This is some cool stuff! I have a couple of questions:
why did you choose the metric you used to gauge similarity? how accurate do you think it is in terms of representing the actual similarity between the subs in terms of content and culture?
were any of the results surprising to you?
n/a shorttails 2017-03-23
Thanks!
It's been shown in the academic literature to be a good similarity metric for a lot of diverse applications.
Overall it's just surprising that the simple strategy we use works as well as it did.
n/a normalresponsibleman 2017-03-23
To me it was especially amazing that such a simple strategy was able to key in on the true central role that the divine feminine plays in Christianity.
n/a Nechaev 2017-03-23
Are you really that brain damaged?
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
tru
n/a Nechaev 2017-03-23
So he's not actually answering questions... he's just making snarky anonymous reports.
Good to know.
n/a riemann1413 2017-03-23
are you really that brain damaged?
n/a outside-looking-in 2017-03-23
That quote is completely accurate.
n/a King-Achelexus 2017-03-23
It looks like pandering to angry immature people to me.
n/a outside-looking-in 2017-03-23
Yes, r/KotakuInAction is that too.
n/a King-Achelexus 2017-03-23
Alright, you're just trolling.
n/a outside-looking-in 2017-03-23
Dead serious, chucklefuck.
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-03-23
Man it must hurt to lack that much self awareness
n/a ur_mom_IoI 2017-03-23
>tfw its not just about video games
n/a LedinToke 2017-03-23
Are you a cuck? I'm asking for some people I know.
n/a Wtfct 2017-03-23
Why wont you take sock accounts into account? Do you not realise how large of an effect it can have on literally your entire article?
Also why do you think /r/politics is neutral?
n/a freet0 2017-03-23
Which users do we most need to remove from r/drama? We all know it's the SRDines, but who else?
n/a explohd 2017-03-23
How old is the data? Will you make a new study a year or so from now and show how demographics have changed?
n/a [deleted] 2017-03-23
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n/a Nechaev 2017-03-23
This is the interesting bit:
r/subredditdrama - r/drama:
r/drama - r/subredditdrama
n/a ThatOtherPromise 2017-03-23
hahahaha my fucking god, lunatics on both sides
n/a Wtfct 2017-03-23
what is this?
n/a freet0 2017-03-23
Wait a second, you take out r/drama and you get more r/goldenrace? WTF you guys are slacking on that mayocide.
Also jesus christ that's just a list of pure cancer.
n/a DuckHuntHotDog 2017-03-23
goddamn the south park neutrality. it's even worse than I thought. Everyone here needs to be summarily executed.
n/a Wraith_GraveSpell 2017-03-23
Man, who would have thought cancer minus cancer is cancer squared
n/a TSwizzlesNipples 2017-03-23
Fix your fucking sub, /u/TakeItToRCircleJerk!
n/a lurker093287h 2017-03-23
I wonder how this squares with that old data bit that said that srd was one of the most toxic places on reddit, surely drama can do better with the obnoxious user pinging and intense relationship with various amateur porn proprietors and alt lite darlings.
n/a JumbledFun 2017-03-23
Oh my god label your damn axis' snally what the hell?!
n/a Ultrashitpost 2017-03-23
horizontal one is Germany, vertical one is Japan
n/a cruelandusual 2017-03-23
Drama - The_Donald... god dammit.
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n/a MapleMemeMagician 2017-03-23
I decided to search three subs I like a lot from entirely different parts of reddit. Spookily accurate.
Reddit Horoscopes when?