This really drives home the political insanity of the last few years. This is a graph of all comments made to Reddit's /r/Politics subreddit. Look at the difference in volume between 2012-2016 and 2016 to today.
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This graph shows weekly comments to /r/politics mentioning Trump. Comments mentioning Trump account for a significant chunk of all comments made to /r/politics lately.
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Any way to scale this a bit for the growing scale of spam the last few years?
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Labeling spam is one of the future goals. Thankfully, the /r/politics mods are very good and keeping spam comments out of the subreddit.

