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Hello Babies and Ladies, [DISCLAIMER: if you are a baby, please learn to read first. This is not a quality statistical analysis, it's the result of me having fun with the RedditAPI and some Python. Also, everything refers to the Top 100 Posts of all time!] one thing unites all the people in this community: Moon Farming. So I went out on an epic quest to find the recipe for the maximum amount of upvotes on your daily shit posts. In this post, I will present to you the result of an analysis of the top 100 posts of all time on r/CryptoCurrency. The DataI used the RedditAPI and Python to scrape the top 100 posts of all time. Next, I deleted polls and posts with a "MOD"-flair. That brings our dataset down to 91 remaining posts. 100 was the maximum amount I could scrape using the API. In the next step, I did some preprocessing by setting all Flairs to uppercase so that "COMEDY" and "Comedy" will be treated as the same. I checked whether the posts or titles contained external links and finally counted the words in the titles and posts. Some StatsLet's dive right into some descriptive statistics! First up: Upvotes In this boxplot you can see that the top post of all time had around 53.000 upvotes. Apart from the other 5 outliers, the number of upvotes range from about 12.000 to 27.000. The median number of upvotes is roughly 17.000. You can also see that the data are slighty right-skewed. We see a similar distribution for Text Lengths: One madlad really put in some effort and cranked out 3600 words! Many of you will notice that there are posts with 0 words, that means there was only a title and maybe a link. Titles are distributed pretty evenly with only a single outlier at 50 words. Nothing special here. Next, let's check out the Flairs: Trading was used 12 times, followed by Finance, Strategy, Comedy and Focussed Discussion. I also counted the most common Nouns/Proper Nouns in both the titles and the texts: Top 10 words in titles:
Top 10 words in texts:
Who woud have thought, people talk about crypto on this sub! To conclude this section, let's see how many posts contained external links: 55 posts didn't have external links, 36 had. So how do you get more upvotes and moons? Fear not mighty warriors, I have some more statistics! I grouped the data in relation to the upvotes and here are the results: Not having an external link performs slightly better than having a link:
Talk about SCAMS for the maximum amount of that sweet karma: Perspective was the worst performing Flair. This difference is actually quite interesting as both SCAM and PERSPECTIVE where only used two times each. I left out the other flairs at this point.
And finally, it doesn't really matter how long your title is but try to keep your posts short (just like this one…): Thanks for reading and staring at some charts! TL;DR: Talk about scams and don't use many words submitted by /u/CaptainLysander |
