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Concept looks great but you just have reddit comments written with no reference to actual comment. How am I gonna know whether its real or made up comment?

For users to trust, Id suggest add links to origin comments and posts and likewise, somehow indicate where and what you scraped so that users know its not a biased channel or fake sentiment

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Thanks for pointing this out. You're right, it's hard for users to validate the comments without the links to original comments. I included those links on web before but removed them because I was being cautious about platform data-usage policies. I realize this may reduce the transparency. I will add them back and document more on data source selection and processing. Thanks again. This is very useful.

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