Redditology · field guide to Reddit

How a page gets made

How every Redditology page is produced: public-archive ingestion, statistical candidate mining, evidence-cited classification, and human review.

1. Archive a community's entire history from public archives (millions of posts and comments)
2. Mine candidate phrases statistically: log-odds vs a site-wide baseline, burst detection
3. Trace every occurrence of every candidate across the full corpus (tens of millions of scans)
4. Score lifecycles: persistence, author spread, opacity, score signal; merge variants
5. Only then: an LLM judges each phrase against a dossier of real, cited examples
6. Editorial consolidation with a style guide, from the community's own words
7. Human review of every page before publishing