Do Social News Sites Deteriorate? (Analysis of 1.8M HN Comments)

Re:Do Social News Sites Deteriorate? (Analysis of 1.8M HN Co... by sidww2 on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @02:21PM (#2603763)

Are the number of votes for a posts available? It could be interesting to use the metrics given to compare posts with high vs low number of votes and could also help validate the use of given metrics.

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Re:Do Social News Sites Deteriorate? (Analysis of 1.8M HN Co... by tansey on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @03:26PM (#2604047)

I did originally have a similar idea, where I started out by looking at the top 10% of comments each month (ranked by upvotes). However, the resulting trends looked pretty similar to the overall community: http://blog.effectcheck.com/top_dep_hap.png

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