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minus-squareRightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down2·1 year 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.
minus-squareKuroeNekoDemon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoIt is. They should’ve used Reddit and Twitter posts/comments from it’s start to the present to get a more accurate database
minus-squareawwwyissss@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoOr from the start up until like 2016 when the shills and bots started showing up en masse.
minus-squareMomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down4·1 year agoIt’s just a bad data set for basically anything
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 year agoYup, comments on news articles are pure cancer. Comments about news articles can be decent though, but they need to be hosted elsewhere.
minus-square✨🫐🌷🌱🌌🌠🌌🌿🪻🥭✨@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agowe built a dataset of three of my comments and found that…
I am no expert but I feel like this is a really bad data set choice for this study.
It is. They should’ve used Reddit and Twitter posts/comments from it’s start to the present to get a more accurate database
Or from the start up until like 2016 when the shills and bots started showing up en masse.
It’s just a bad data set for basically anything
Yup, comments on news articles are pure cancer. Comments about news articles can be decent though, but they need to be hosted elsewhere.
we built a dataset of three of my comments and found that…