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July 09, 2015

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  1. the  algorithm   Data  Source   520k comments from 4k

    posts Data  Cleaning   Recency, comment length, comment level Sentiment  Analysis   Bag of words Positive + Negative Logistic  Regression   Predict the probability of being upvoted vs. downvoted Webapp   Classification of comment based on pre-trained model Real-time Reddit API calls
  2. sentiment  fit  by  subreddit   Comments that are downvoted have

    lower sentiment (even for subreddits with mostly negative sentiment)
  3. validation   Overall Accuracy: 68.3% (Compare to No-Information Rate: 52.2%,

    p < .001) Predicted   Upvotes   Downvotes   Actual   Upvotes   Downvotes   Upvote   Recall:  60%   Downvote   Recall:  75.8%  
  4. recency   The earlier comments are made, the wider the

    possible range of upvotes and downvotes
  5. Back and forth conversations are more likely on /r/politics (ps

    < .001) DBDude 0 points 1 month ago No, I completely countered your statement that a one-degree change… onetime 0 points 1 month ago Please, quote me saying that exact statement. I said that, changes to the… DBDude 0 points 1 month ago You just keep going down the rabbit hole, don’t you? You claim funds… Onetime 1 point 1 month ago That’s not what I said at all. That’s why I asked you to quote me… [+] DBDude 0 points 1 month ago (35 children)