This isn't method help, but your student may also be interested in talking with Chris Peterson <https://twitter.com/peteyreplies>, who wrote a master's thesis <http://cmsw.mit.edu/user-generated-censorship/> at MIT Comparative Media Studies about organized downvoting on Digg. N Nick Seaver Anthropology Department Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing University of California, Irvine www.nickseaver.net On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:00 PM, <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

Message: 5 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:23:10 -0700 From: jose marichal <marichal@callutheran.edu> To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Reddit Downvotes Message-ID: <CAEqQr1kxrvJSG2GC6dVEEesfjSg9zktRY1HP3iQoXtYP9Mg= 8w@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Colleagues,

A student of mine is doing a project looking at the most downvoted articles in the sub-reddit "r/politics." Does anyone know of a way to identify the most "downvoted" links on the site?

Many thanks, Jose