Are r/CC users overly enthusiastic in posting comments, but overly stingy when givin

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Are r/CC users overly enthusiastic in posting comments, but overly stingy when givin

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>An unexpected trend I noticed recently is that posts with low upvote counts routinely make it to the frontpage. </p> <p>This is common in smaller communities, but there are 4 million+ subscribers here. You’d expect posts on the frontpage would have a couple thousand upvotes instead of a few hundred each.</p> <p>I dug into the numbers to check if it’s true.</p> <h1>I exported our top 100 posts and compared the upvotes-to-comments ratio to subreddits that share our hobby of yolo-ing life savings because a stranger told us to</h1> <p>That's Wallstreetbets and SuperStonk.</p> <p>I scraped <a href="https://imgur.com/bt09arh">data from 300 posts in the last 30 days</a> into a javascript object notation (JSON) file. Then I converted it into CSV format to find the headers that contained the info I needed: post title, upvote count, comment count, post type, flair, and a few others.</p> <p>After that, it was just a matter of <a href="https://imgur.com/ooakgfR">cleaning it up in Excel</a> and making some pivot tables to combine data from all 3 subreddits.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h1>Result 1: Users of Cryptocurrency give massively less upvotes than Wallstreetbets and SuperStonk</h1> <p>And it’s not even close. Here’s a summary of all 300 posts I scraped:</p> <table><thead> <tr> <th align="left"></th> <th align="left">Subscribers</th> <th align="left">Total Upvotes</th> <th align="left">Total Comments</th> <th align="left">Upvote-to-Comment Ratio</th> </tr> </thead><tbody> <tr> <td align="left">Cryptocurrency</td> <td align="left">4,286,758</td> <td align="left">455,146</td> <td align="left">135,170</td> <td align="left">3.37</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">Wallstreetbets</td> <td align="left">11,449,899</td> <td align="left">2,170,981</td> <td align="left">90,523</td> <td align="left">23.98</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">SuperStonk</td> <td align="left">720,403</td> <td align="left">1,734,892</td> <td align="left">69,300</td> <td align="left">25.03</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>^Table ^formatting ^brought ^to ^you ^by ^{<a href="https://xl2reddit.github.io/">ExcelToReddit</a>}</p> <p>You are <strong>612% more likely to get an upvote in Wallstreetbets</strong> or Superstonk than on Cryptocurrency.</p> <p>Other revealing stats are:</p> <ul> <li>We have 62% less subscribers than Wallstreetbets, but Cryptocurrency has 49% more comments</li> <li>Superstonk has 83% less subscribers, but they give 281% more upvotes than Cryptocurrency</li> </ul> <p>A high upvote-to-comment ratio means that there are more upvotes than comments. A <strong>low ratio means users comment more</strong> than upvote.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h1>Result 2: If you look at SELFPOSTS ONLY, Cryptocurrency also gives way less upvotes than anywhere else</h1> <p>Memes are allowed in both Wallstreetbets and SuperStonk which tend to be more upvote-heavy than comments.</p> <p>If you exclude those, this is what you get:</p> <table><thead> <tr> <th align="left"></th> <th align="left">Total Upvotes</th> <th align="left">Total Comments</th> <th align="left">Upvote-to-Comment Ratio</th> </tr> </thead><tbody> <tr> <td align="left">Cryptocurrency</td> <td align="left">325,455</td> <td align="left">115,203</td> <td align="left">2.83</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">Wallstreetbets</td> <td align="left">102,821</td> <td align="left">12,588</td> <td align="left">8.17</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">SuperStonk</td> <td align="left">392,629</td> <td align="left">19,136</td> <td align="left">20.52</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>Your selfpost is still 189% more likely to get an upvote in Wallstreetbets, and 625% more likely in SuperStonk.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h1>Result 3: We also give out less post appreciation awards than other subreddits</h1> <p>Superstonk is way ahead at an insane 221 awards per post, then WSB is next with 65.</p> <p>Cryptocurrency is last with an average of 51 awards.</p> <table><thead> <tr> <th align="left"></th> <th align="left"># of Posts</th> <th align="left">Total Awards Given</th> <th align="left">Avg Awards per Post</th> </tr> </thead><tbody> <tr> <td align="left">Cryptocurrency</td> <td align="left">100</td> <td align="left">5,083</td> <td align="left">51</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">Wallstreetbets</td> <td align="left">100</td> <td align="left">6,459</td> <td align="left">65</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left">SuperStonk</td> <td align="left">100</td> <td align="left">22,066</td> <td align="left">221</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>This counts all awards: reddit gold, silver, helpful, facepalm, wholesome etc.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h1>Conclusion/TLDR</h1> <p>Cryptocurrency is the Scrooge McDuck of upvotes. We like leaving comments a lot, but we don’t upvote the post we’re commenting on as often.</p> <p>Why though?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/toyume"> /u/toyume </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/rzicfg/are_rcc_users_overly_enthusiastic_in_posting/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/rzicfg/are_rcc_users_overly_enthusiastic_in_posting/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R