78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis

Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by eridius on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:08PM (#11629774)

Interesting, but I'm a bit disappointed the author didn't at least try to filter out things like "grammar nazi" or, as might be found in r/seinfeld, "soup nazi".

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by comboy on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:11PM (#11629806)

Yeah, or "I did nazi that coming", the bigger the thread the more memes are in it.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by dTal on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:11PM (#11631853)

Ctrl-F "nazi that"... yep.

I don't think we can draw any conclusions from this beyond the fact that the Reddit hive mind thinks Godwin's law is hilarious and mentions Hitler at every opportunity.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by samcheng on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:33PM (#11630547)

Right; I'd guess that at least half of the 'nazi' mentions are actually lame puns.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by gkya on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:39PM (#11630052)

> In this post, I’ll only try to find out how many Reddit comments mention Nazis or Hitler and ignore the context in which they are made.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by jshevek on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:32PM (#11630537)

Did you think the person posting didn't see this text? He is commenting directly on this choice.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by gkya on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:05PM (#11630808)

He may have skimmed the text and missed it. His comment does not imply that he read the sentence I quote.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by eridius on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @05:31PM (#11632030)

I read the sentence you quoted.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by gkya on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:26PM (#11633076)

How do I know that, sorry? Let's not spam the thread.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by gist on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:40PM (#11630066)

Sure but is there really a big difference between these sentences:

"And in the end anyone who feels like that reminds me of the Nazi's"

"The Nazis did that and you see what happened to them"

"The way he makes comments it's like he's a grammar nazi"

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by sosborn on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:31PM (#11630528)

> Sure but is there really a big difference between these sentences:

Yes.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by zumatic on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:52PM (#11630181)

...and what about words which contain the string "...nazi...", such as "Ashkenazim"? They don't seem to give the exact query, that I could see.

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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by ry_ry on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @06:17PM (#11632375)

I'd imagine Ashkenazim doesn't turn up often enough to be statistically significant.

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