“我不能继续下去了。“一个数据集从已不复存在的Voat.co新闻聚合器
"I Can't Keep It Up." A Dataset from the Defunct Voat.co News Aggregator
摘要：
Voat.co是一个新闻聚合网站，于2020年12月25日关闭。该网站有一个麻烦的历史，并以托管各种被禁止的子网站而闻名。本文介绍了一个数据集，其中包含超过230万次提交和1620万条评论，来自7.1K subverses中的113K用户（相当于Voat的subreddit）。我们的数据集涵盖了Voat的整个生命周期，从2013年11月8日开始的开发期，到2014年4月成立之日，直到关闭之日（2020年12月25日）。据我们所知，这项工作提供了最大和最完整的公共可用Voat数据集。随着该数据集的发布，我们提出了一个初步分析，涵盖了平台上的发布活动和日常用户和颠覆注册，以便对我们的数据集感兴趣的研究人员可以知道会发生什么。我们的数据可能有助于虚假新闻传播研究，因为我们分析了用户在平台上分享的链接，发现许多社区依赖于Breitbart和GatewayPundit等替代新闻媒体进行日常讨论。此外，我们对用户交互进行了网络分析，发现许多用户不喜欢与他们叙事兴趣之外的颠覆者交互，这可能有助于研究人员关注极化和回声室。此外，由于Voat是Reddit社区被禁止迁移的平台之一，我们相信我们的数据集将激励和帮助研究人员研究去平台化。最后，许多充满仇恨和阴谋的社区在Voat上非常受欢迎，这使得我们的工作对专注于毒性，阴谋论，社交网络跨平台研究和自然语言处理的研究人员很有价值。
英文摘要：
Voat.co was a news aggregator website that shut down on December 25, 2020. The site had a troubled history and was known for hosting various banned subreddits. This paper presents a dataset with over 2.3M submissions and 16.2M comments posted from 113K users in 7.1K subverses (the equivalent of subreddit for Voat). Our dataset covers the whole lifetime of Voat, from its developing period starting on November 8, 2013, the day it was founded, April 2014, up until the day it shut down (December 25, 2020). This work presents the largest and most complete publicly available Voat dataset, to the best of our knowledge. Along with the release of this dataset, we present a preliminary analysis covering posting activity and daily user and subverse registration on the platform so that researchers interested in our dataset can know what to expect. Our data may prove helpful to false news dissemination studies as we analyze the links users share on the platform, finding that many communities rely on alternative news press, like Breitbart and GatewayPundit, for their daily discussions. In addition, we perform network analysis on user interactions finding that many users prefer not to interact with subverses outside their narrative interests, which could be helpful to researchers focusing on polarization and echo chambers. Also, since Voat was one of the platforms banned Reddit communities migrated to, we are confident our dataset will motivate and assist researchers studying deplatforming. Finally, many hateful and conspiratorial communities were very popular on Voat, which makes our work valuable for researchers focusing on toxicity, conspiracy theories, cross-platform studies of social networks, and natural language processing.
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