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[–] RightHandOfIkaros 40 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We built a data set of 45 million comments on news articles on the Huffington Post website between January 2013 and February 2015.

I am no expert but I feel like this is a really bad data set choice for this study.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It is. They should've used Reddit and Twitter posts/comments from it's start to the present to get a more accurate database

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Or from the start up until like 2016 when the shills and bots started showing up en masse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's just a bad data set for basically anything

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yup, comments on news articles are pure cancer. Comments about news articles can be decent though, but they need to be hosted elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

we built a dataset of three of my comments and found that...