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pretty_name: HumanMOD (AMCIS 2023)
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We are excited to share the release of the HumanMOD dataset, unveiled in our AMCIS 2023 paper .

Wang, Kanlun; Fu, Zhe; Zhou, Lina; and Zhang, Dongsong, "How Does User Engagement Support Content Moderation? A Deep Learning-based Comparative Study" (2023). AMCIS 2023 Proceedings. 3. https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2023/sig_aiaa/sig_aiaa/3

Dataset Summary:

  • The data collection was limited to public online communities to comply with the platform's privacy policy.
  • We leveraged a Pushshift Reddit API to scrape posts from 40 subreddits daily across four different domains from Aug 24 to October 28, 2022, resulting in 104,674 posts.
  • To enhance the ecological validity of the study findings, we used a PRAW API to perform another round of data collection of the collected posts 2 months later to validate whether the post content was moderated or not.
  • Thereafter, we used a snowballing approach to collect the corresponding comments on all the posts.
  • The metadata includes post content, post time, comment content, comment time, karma score, etc.
  • We set a threshold for the minimum number of comments to 2 and an upper bound for the number of direct comments to 15 to facilitate the extraction of graph-based structural information.
  • The final dataset consists of 8,511 moderated posts and another 8,511 not moderated posts.
  • All the posts were commented on, with a total of 148,344 comments.

Data Fields for HumanMOD_Posts dataset:

  • Reddit_ID: the unique identifiers for Reddit posts, which serve as the foreign keys bridging to the HumanMOD_Comments dataset.
  • Subreddits: the names of subreddits
  • Titles: the titles of Reddit posts
  • Body: post content, which is an extended description of a post
  • Author: the authors of posts
  • URLs: the web addresses of Reddit posts
  • Labels: (0) -- The post is not moderated; (1) -- The post is moderated by moderators.

Data Fields for HumanMOD_Comments dataset:

  • Parent ID: the unique identifiers for parent comments
  • Comment ID: the unique identifiers for child comments, the ones that reply to the parent comments
  • Comment Body: the content of child comments
  • Score: the karma scores of child comments
  • Author: the authors of child comments
  • Post ID: the specific Reddit post identifiers to which the child comment should be associated, which serve as the foreign keys bridging to the HumanMOD_Posts dataset.