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		bhousel on May 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do Social News Sites Deteriorate? (Analysis of 1.8... Any plans to compare against corpora from other social news sites? BTW, I think what you're doing is brilliant, and I can think of about a dozen practical applications for your technology.. Ignore the naysayers.

tansey on May 31, 2011 [–]

Thanks! I'd be happy to analyze of corpora like reddit or Digg, but I don't want to scrape the sites as that is a great way to have my IP banned. Are there publicly-available datasets that I can download somewhere?

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