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Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names(theconversation.com)

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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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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.

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KuroeNekoDemon@sh.itjust.works
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It is. They should’ve used Reddit and Twitter posts/comments from it’s start to the present to get a more accurate database

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

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MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works
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It’s just a bad data set for basically anything

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

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✧✨🌿Allo🌿✨✧@sh.itjust.works
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we built a dataset of three of my comments and found that…

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