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Re: Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit

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@lettergram In lettergram.com, when it says "{} opinion ({}) in {} separate discussions" - are these discussions from Reddit and HN?

It’s what ever is fed into the system. So currently it’s monitoring 12 or so data sources. I could monitor more, but I figure I’ll scale it with interest.

Cool! What are they?

Have you considered adding the feature of listing the conversations which contributed to the score?

Re: Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit

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I searched for "suicide". I got a list of people back who had interesting opinions in a thread about suicide, but who are not domain experts.

It's an interesting idea though, and it worked a lot better than I was expecting it to. The limitations are clear from the description on the page ("note we only track a small number of subreddits").

Re: Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit

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Fortunately I'm not the kind of person people would be searching for, but this just seems impolite. Posting to an internet forum on a topic that interests you is not an opt-in to have random internet people or reach out to you asking for free advice. If I were a domain expert I wouldn't want to be searched for on Reddit using a tool like this because the implicit goal is to then be spammed about it. If I wanted to be reached out to, I'd say so on a web site somewhere

Re: Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s what ever is fed into the system. So currently it’s monitoring 12 or so data sources. I could monitor more, but I figure I’ll scale it with interest.

Cool! What are they? Have you considered adding the feature of listing the conversations which contributed to the score?

100% of the conversations on this website come from subreddits (main ones listed in another comment here). Overall I also monitor some forums, hacker news, and others for https://projectpiglet.com which identifies company insiders then recommends trades. So I don't feel comfortable with sharing exact sources.

Regarding the score - The paid version I'm offering to companies has said feature. It also has a bunch of other items as well, find duplicate accounts, automated related project notification, etc.

Re: Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit

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Fortunately I'm not the kind of person people would be searching for, but this just seems impolite. Posting to an internet forum on a topic that interests you is not an opt-in to have random internet people or reach out to you asking for free advice. If I were a domain expert I wouldn't want to be searched for on Reddit using a tool like this because the implicit goal is to then be spammed about it. If I wanted to be…

Neither is it proof of being an expert.

Re: Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool! What are they? Have you considered adding the feature of listing the conversations which contributed to the score?

100% of the conversations on this website come from subreddits (main ones listed in another comment here). Overall I also monitor some forums, hacker news, and others for https://projectpiglet.com which identifies company insiders then recommends trades. So I don't feel comfortable with sharing exact sources. Regarding the score - The paid version I'm offering to companies has said feature. It also has a bunch of oth…

Thanks! I will consider trying paid version.

Re: Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit

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If you want to find mods and bots, try searching for "please". It works on the HN version to pick out dang and sctb and it seems to work on Reddit as well. There are some false positives, however. E.g. a comment saying "Zuck Fuck" being interpreted as discussing "please" might be due to uncleaned word vectors. https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/85y46f/facebooks...

I tried https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=... to no avail; there's neither dang nor sctb on the first 5 pages.

Re: Show HN: Search for a domain expert on Reddit

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post #49
post #13

If you want to find mods and bots, try searching for "please". It works on the HN version to pick out dang and sctb and it seems to work on Reddit as well. There are some false positives, however. E.g. a comment saying "Zuck Fuck" being interpreted as discussing "please" might be due to uncleaned word vectors. https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/85y46f/facebooks...

I tried https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=... to no avail; there's neither dang nor sctb on the first 5 pages.

So.. the system learns what the subject of a sentence is over time. It's since learned "please" is not a subject, so I imagine that's what's dropped them in the results.

Still appear first for YCombinator, because that's the links they constantly post

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