Tim Weninger, University of Notre Dame (IMAGE)

University of Notre Dame

Tim Weninger, University of Notre Dame

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Tim Weninger spent five months monitoring new posts on Reddit -- 93,019 posts in all -- and randomly, regardless of content, assigned either an up-vote, down-vote or no vote (as a control) to each post.

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Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame

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