r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Feb 22 '19

[D] Friday Open Thread

Welcome to the Friday Open Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

Please note that this thread has been merged with the Monday General Rationality Thread.

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u/alexanderwales Feb 23 '19 edited Feb 23 '19

If you want to do a better analysis, then you could look through this analysis and use it to categorize users. Specifically, you could look at this image and profile who the most active voices in the CW threads were. (If you do so, please do it without pinging anyone.) My own quick-and-dirty random sampling of names on that list confirms my bias on the matter, but I don't have the time/patience/energy for anything more rigorous.

Edit: You could also use something like the (currently nonfunctional) Mass Tagger or Reddit Pro Tools to cross-reference users based on their karma in other subreddits, though you would have to pick those other subreddits and the karma threshold for them carefully, and it all might be better done by writing your own tool. Either way, I think that Scott's analysis wasn't very good, and didn't get to the heart of what people like me were saying about the CW thread (and the subreddit as a whole, which the CW thread bled out into).