Analyzing January 2019 Reddit Comment patterns and lots and lots of bots.
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Histogram and time-based heat-map of reddit comments (or submissions) built using pushshift. This bot copies comments from YouTube videos and pastes them in the appropriate reddit threads.
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Whoa that's quite obvious! So many questions! Does this hold for prior months? How long? Do some boots necro old threads? Do they post? Do they have similar profiles?
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It appears to hold up for prior months but seems to get more exaggerated over time with there not being hardly any bots at all pre-2010 (relatively speaking). Of course, Reddit's API (when introduced) made bots far easier to write.
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