We observe that innovators are significantly more central than other users (for all measures considered: degree, betweenness and eigenvector) and are significantly more active in terms of number of posts than other individuals in the community (unpaired Welch's t-tests, all with p < 0.05).
a very robust pattern emerges across all subreddits, showing that innovators do have a particular profile in terms of their social standing: they do not belong to tightly connected cliques and occupy a central position in the network, as hubs with many connections of relatively low strength.