# If your goal is to find out how people on reddit actually talk about it
(rather than what kind of…

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If your goal is to find out how people on reddit actually talk about it
(rather than what kind of discussion from *other people* on the subject
redditors value), a cutoff at the 100 karma threshhold is probably going to
produce horribly skewed results: because karma determines presentation order,
it grows non-linearly, which means that only a few very popular comments will
get more than single-digit karma. If you want to get a smaller data set but
keep it representative, I would isolate comments with exactly one karma point.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [April 21,
2017](https://medium.com/p/8b2b4538e193).

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