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| == Problems and Questions == | | == Possible confounds / problems == |
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| I've been thinking about possible problems with this approach and would love others to help me to identify them (and identify solutions!) | | I've been thinking about possible problems with this approach and would love others to help me to identify them (and identify solutions!) |
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| * I think age may be a big problem - if a user posts in ''i'' before ''j'' exists, then they couldn't have posted in ''j'' first | | * I think age may be a big problem - if a user posts in ''i'' before ''j'' exists, then they couldn't have posted in ''j'' first |
| * I thought it was at first, but this is not quite the same as testing if <math>P(i|j) > P(j|i)</math>. The downside of that approach is that pathways can get diluted in the case where a subreddit acts as a gateway to multiple other subreddits. I think that my new approach is closer to the intuition I wanted. | | * I thought it was at first, but this is not quite the same as testing if <math>P(i|j) > P(j|i)</math>. The downside of that approach is that pathways can get diluted in the case where a subreddit acts as a gateway to multiple other subreddits. I think that my new approach is closer to the intuition I wanted. |
| ** I also only look at the immediately subsequent subreddit and only the first time someone posts in a given subredit. This is not obviously the best way but controls somewhat for heterogeneity in activity levels.
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| * This produces a lot of edges! I would like to figure out a good way to prune them - the simplest is to keep limiting by the proportion of the posterior < .5, but maybe there are some other ways? | | * This produces a lot of edges! I would like to figure out a good way to prune them - the simplest is to keep limiting by the proportion of the posterior < .5, but maybe there are some other ways? |
| * What do I do now? What pathways are interesting? Pathways to banned subs?
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| == Some very preliminary results ==
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| Here are the neighbors of r/conspiracy, when using a cutoff of .0001
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| * People move from these communities to r/conspiracy
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| ** adviceanimals
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| ** askreddit
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| ** codzombies
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| ** dota2
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| ** fantasybaseball
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| ** funny
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| ** leagueoflegends
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| ** pewdiepiesubmissions
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| ** pics
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| ** politics
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| ** prettylittleliars
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| ** reddit.com
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| ** showerthoughts
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| ** squaredcircle
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| ** teenagers
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| ** the_donald
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| ** trees
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| * People move from r/conspiracy to these communities:
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| ** astronomy
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| ** bad_cop_no_donut
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| ** cannabis
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| ** cbts_stream
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| ** christianity
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| ** circleoftrust
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| ** collapse
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| ** creepy
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| ** documentaries
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| ** economics
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| ** environment
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| ** fullmoviesonyoutube
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| ** health
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| ** hiphoptruth
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| ** history
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| ** latestagecapitalism
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| ** legaladvice
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| ** lifeprotips
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| ** military
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| ** mycology
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| ** nottheonion
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| ** occult
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| ** philosophy
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| ** quotes
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| ** redditrequest
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| ** science
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| ** shadowban
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| ** space
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| ** thecalmbeforethestorm
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| ** topmindsofreddit
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| ** ufos
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| ** upliftingnews
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| ** futurology
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| ** ideasfortheadmins
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| ** activism
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| ** anticonsumption
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| ** conspiracytheories
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| ** conspiratard
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| ** hailcorporate
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| ** preppers
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| ** wikileaks
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| ** 911truth
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| ** actualconspiracies
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| ** alternativehistory
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| ** altnewz
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| ** c_s_t
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| ** conspiracies
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| ** conspiracy_commons
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| ** conspiracydocumentary
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| ** conspiracyfact
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| ** conspiracyfacts
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| ** conspiracyhub
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| ** conspiracyii
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| ** conspiracymemes
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| ** conspiracyright
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| ** conspiracyundone
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| ** conspiro
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| ** culturallayer
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| ** descentintotyranny
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| ** endlesswar
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| ** falseflagwatch
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| ** fringetheory
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| ** governmentoppression
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| ** highstrangeness
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| ** holofractal
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| ** intelligence
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| ** jfkresearcher
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| ** limitedhangouts
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| ** occultconspiracy
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| ** pedogate
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| ** propaganda
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| ** romerules
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| ** truthleaks
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| ** unagenda21
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| ** undelete
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