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.