Many of these studies have analyzed content-agnostic factors such as submission timing and author social status, as well as language factors that underlie the textual content, e.g., the topic and idiosyncrasies of the community.
there is an increasing amount of work on online discussion forums such as Reddit that exploits the conversational and community-centric nature of the usergenerated content (Lakkaraju et al., 2013;Althoff et al., 2014;Jaech et al., 2015;Tan et al., 2016;Wei et al., 2016;He et al., 2016a;, which contrasts with Twitter where the au-thor's social status seems to play a larger role in popularity.