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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    412·
    11 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.

    • KuroeNekoDemonEnglish
      12·
      11 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

      • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

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

    • MomoTimeToDieEnglish
      75·
      11 months ago

      It’s just a bad data set for basically anything

      • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
        6·
        11 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.