Comment by waterlesscloud

Funny, I've been mentally building a model the last few days and thinking that URLs that are frequently referenced in comments are likely to be good indicators of middlebrow dismissals. Thinking specifically of links to the various "laws" of internet discussion, logical fallacies, and so on.

But also potentially looking at things like the urls that get linked into regular discussions such as weight loss or political topics. That might go beyond the immediate scope, but comments with those links might have other factors similar to middlebrow dismissals, so they might be worth building into the model.

Trying to catch something like this post would be interesting to add. Maybe an anti-indicator if the link adds value. Then you get into figuring the value of the content of the link. Maybe compare it to the content of the original link, which you would want to be similar, but not too similar. Yeah, that might get involved.