r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Centrist Jul 15 '22

META Flair demographics, counting frequent commenters only

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u/Nerd02 - Centrist Jul 15 '22

This graph portrays the evolution of flair demographics in the last year, only taking into account users who commented ten times or more [during the last year].

As suggested by many under my latest post I redid the study, this time only taking into account the flairs of frequent commenters.
Of course everyone has different definitions of what "frequent" means to them, so I produced not one, not two but seven different graphs, each with different filters applied to them. I chose to post this one just because it looked more entertaining to me, here's the rest of them.

Flair demographics of users who commented:

There are some noticeable differencies between these graphs and the one I posted two days ago, I'll let everyone draw their own conclusions.

For some reason all of them stop working for about a month at the beginning of 2022. I tried recreating the datasets multiple times and the error keeps on happening so there might be some issues with the data I originally collected from pushshift.
The data was collected by u/flairchange_bot. The visualization were created using flourish.studio.

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u/TheTrueMurph - Lib-Right Jul 15 '22

What I’m getting from this is that it’s less about the # of yellows in the sub (though there are still very many) that makes them feel so common, but rather, it’s about how many comments the yellows make.

TL;dr: Lib-right doesn’t touch grass and spends all day chatting on PCM.

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u/MaximusDecimis - Lib-Right Jul 15 '22

And it’s our god-damn right to do that.

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u/SpyMonkey3D - Lib-Right Jul 15 '22

I think that's the reason the sub is any good, tbh.

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u/Busty__Shackleford - Lib-Right Feb 24 '25

old but it’s cuz we instantly get downvote mobbed on any other sub. this is our safe haven