I want more modding, do you?

[jerry]

Poopypants did the clustering based on likes alone and posted the results in the fun poster data thread. The groups were lefties, non-pol posters, and everyone else, as best as I can tell. I’m not sure if this will work, but here’s a link to the post:

Fun Poster Data

So I was trying some spectral clustering to see how the forum separates into groups. Here I’ve clustered everyone into three groups based entirely on their likes. Roughly speaking, the image below plots users according their likes. If you want to know the mathematical details, here is the wikipedia article. [scatter] There are three groups. The purple group encompasses most of the users. Contrary to what @zarapochka believes, she is not an “other” and belongs to this group. If I had to guess,…