Would any "early internet" social media researchers be interested in a full ndjson dump of Fark comments spanning from when it first went online to the most recent threads? There are some especially interesting comments about 9/11 as it happened through the day. I am not sure I
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can make this public because I certainly don't want to piss Drew off and I may be toeing the line just keeping it for academic research but I feel this data should be archived in the event Fark ever goes offline (hopefully not).
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For the record, I will not charge anyone for this data as that would be morally wrong but if Drew is ok with allowing it for academic research, I can give 100% of the proceeds to him. Again, I don't want to anger Drew so he would ultimately be the final authority on this.
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One thing I noticed is that there are a lot of dead kinks for pictures that were shared in older comments so it would make sense to grab that data now to preserve it for future historians.
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kinks=links (not a Freudian slip)
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If Drew is okay with it, would be interested in a few ideas about online moderation research
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Yeah -- I think he wouldn't mind if we could guarantee that any researchers who use the dataset do not allow it to fall in the public domain but again, it will ultimately be up to him.
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As a one time dark user I have a vauge desire to do a paper on it someday so yeah I'm weakly interested