Reddit as a data source
Reddit is a link aggregation website used by millions worldwide, although the English versions are US-centric. Any user can contribute a link to a website they found interesting, along with a title for that link. Other users can then upvote it, indicating that they liked the link, or downvote it, indicating they didn't like the link. The highest voted links are moved to the top of the page, while the lower ones are not shown. Older links are removed from the front page over time, depending on how many upvotes it has. Users who have stories upvoted earn points called karma, providing an incentive to submit only good stories.
Reddit also allows non-link content, called self-posts. These contain a title and some text ...
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