• @RightHandOfIkaros
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    4010 months ago

    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]
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      1110 months ago

      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]
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        210 months ago

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

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        10 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.