Careful, upvotes and karma are analytics.
They aren't. They're feedback. Analytics is demographic information used for marketing purposes.
Analytics are often used for demographic purposes, but they aren’t for that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytics
Ranking comments by quality is absolutely tangential to analytics. It’s processing feedback, and rearranging the pangs in orders to make it more pleasant to readers… it’s real close to a-b testing.
If I can see the number of votes and replies and their affect on my account (karma count), those are analytics of my comments and stories.
Demography is the genre of analytic.