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Reddit.com: A census of subreddits

Published:28 June 2015Publication History

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The Social News site reddit.com is composed of thousands of independent user-created subreddits where people use the site's submission and voting features in a variety of ways. This paper offers a brief overview of different types of subreddit and how user activity is distributed between these.

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    WebSci '15: Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference
    June 2015
    366 pages
    ISBN:9781450336727
    DOI:10.1145/2786451

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    • Published: 28 June 2015

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