One Percent of Reddit Users Cause 75 Percent of the Drama (theoutline.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:10AM from the closer-look dept.

Just 1 percent of all Reddit communities set off 74 percent of all conflicts on the site, a new research has found. The Outline: In the self-published research from Srijan Kumar, Jure Leskoec, William Hamilton, and Dan Jurafsky of Stanford University, "intercommunity conflict" is defined as "negative sentiment to comment in another community." These users wouldn't necessarily qualify as trolls or sockpuppets; they're instigators, posting links to other subreddits and encouraging other users to target, harass, and fight with users on that subreddit.

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Re:1% of the internet.. by sycodon · 2018-03-26 02:34 · Score: 5, Informative

Pareto Principle.
Roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Reddit seems extreme, but it's not unusual.
Can anyone think of something where this doesn't apply?

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