An initial look at kudos on AO3 D:BH fics

Basic descriptives of kudos. With information on the users who left kudos and the amount of guests per story who contributed kudos, I’m hoping to do more in-depth analyses to follow up. I’ll update if there’s any interesting!

Note:

I scraped the kudo list at the end of each story (e.g. Connor, Markus, Kara, and 2 more users Hank and Sumo, as well as 5 guests left kudos on this work!) and used regex to extract the (1) names of registered users, and (2) the number of guests who left kudos.

Overall, I extracted information on 3144226 kudos this way. AO3 also provides its own kudo count on each story; summing those gave me a total of 3144430. There’s a discrepancy of 204 kudos between my extracted number and AO3’s reported total - a very small discrepancy. On closer inspection, I see that 202 fics are missing 1 kudos each from my extraction, and 2 fics are missing 2 kudos. I’m not sure about AO3’s backend, but I’m thinking that the cause could be readers leaving kudos while I was scraping.
In any case, I went ahead with the information I extracted.

Breakdown of kudos-givers (user vs guest)

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Breakdown of kudos-givers (user vs guest), by rating

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Distribution of proportion of kudos-givers who are guests, by rating

For each fic, I divided the number of guests kudos-givers against the total number of kudos it received. I was wondering, for example, if explicit fics might skew more to a higher guest kudos-giver proportion, etc? (spoiler: the answer is no!)
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