I feel a bit uneasy about the bot that reposts comments from 8ch.net to v/8chan. The rate of posting (often 1 comment every 2 seconds) overwhelmed my data collection stream and I had to ramp up API requests just to keep up.
In January, 104,266 comments were posted to v/8chan. This was more than double the number posted to v/GreatAwakening, which had 3,142 active commenters.
This post for example https://voat.co/v/8chan/2969519 has 1,322 comments, 15 views and 1 upvote.
Is it really worth the server processing and data storage load?
Or is this just my professional jealousy? :)
@Flux @Ravage
MrBateman ago
It looks like it creates on average 2 threads per hour so it isn't sliding. It appears that on average 1 post per day is getting around 20 upvotes so at least one post per day is probably making it to at least the 2nd page of v/all . It seems that ever since it started, any major new topic that is posted to 8ch.net/pol gets reposted here and then that repost goes to the front page. To me it seems that there has been a lot more activity and more quality activity since it started.
Voat users that were never exposed to 8ch.net/pol and never left voat are now exposed to pol posts if people feel they are worthy and are upvoted.
MadWorld ago
It has a lot of data, but the view count, within each submission, seems quite low. The 8chan bot is doing its thing, but not many users are interacting within /v/8chan subverse.
PuttItOut ago
Thanks for sharing. Hmmmm... A few sides to this.