The social identity approach suggests that group prototypical individuals have greater
influence over fellow group members. This effect has been well-studied offline. Here, we use
a novel method of assessing prototypicality in naturally occurring data to test whether this
effect can be replicated in online communities. In Study 1a (N= 53,049 Reddit users), we
train a linguistic measure of prototypicality for two social groups: libertarians and
entrepreneurs. We then validate this measure further to ensure it is not driven by …

This dataset is the cleaned Reddit data that were collated using Google BigQuery as well as
the cleaned data from the Silk Road (made publicly available by Branwen et al., 2015). Data
have been anonymised for ethical reasons and all posts not used in the analysis have been
omitted (more detail about this process found in the Methods section of the article).