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@Undo Finally got an invite to rate some comments -- "This dataset will be made available upon request, with account IDs replaced with randomized rater IDs"

Undo

@thesecretmaster Same, and noticed the same thing. I hope it means what it says

thesecretmaster

Well...

They're breaking the license, although I think we already knew that.

Undo

Pro tip: The comment IDs are embedded in the page. Trivial to get them and use the /posts/comments to find on the site

thesecretmaster

Yep, I think we already had this conversation :P

Undo

1:03 AM

Which probably isn't useful to any non-mod type people, and definitely doesn't satisfy license, but I like it

How are the comments for you?

I'm getting nice happy ones

thesecretmaster

I haven't started yet -- just started poking at CO again

Undo

Not sure if this is a representative sample of the whole site or if they're deliberately giving different batches of comments to different groups

thesecretmaster

You could find out, if you've got a sock. But that'd be against their rules and skew their data, so prolly don't do that.

Actually, I've got a 504 time out error

So I couldn't start if I tried

Undo

actually, given how rudimentary the sign in system is, I bet it's not a different-groups thing

thesecretmaster

Could be different groups get different urls

Same app running of different ... erm ... glitch containers?

Undo

1:07 AM

@thesecretmaster fancy-brontosaurus?

which isn't loading for me either :(

thesecretmaster

You're not supposed to share that, but yep

Are you getting in through the one that was shared earlier?

Undo

in TL?

thesecretmaster

Yep

Undo

Would have to dig it up

thesecretmaster

I wrote it down somewhere...

Undo

1:09 AM

I'm betting Glitch is having a bad day

anyway, I'm gonna actually handle real comment flags

slightly more useful

Super excited about getting that data

thesecretmaster

Yeah, hopefully it's be interesting and useful

Oh wait

Maybe not

They haven't stated if they're going to release comment/post ids

Undo

It sounds like we're going to get comment texts, at least.

thesecretmaster

Rater id wouldn't break license anyways

Undo

> We will emphasize the sensitive nature of this data and ask requesters to respect Stack Overflow users’ privacy by not publishing individual comment texts.

while slightly irritating, it's trivial to map texts to comment IDs

thesecretmaster

Not if they're deleted

Which, ideally, all the bad ones will be.

So, if userA was responsible for 70% of bad comments, we'd have no idea.

Undo

1:13 AM

If one is slightly lucky on the timeline, it'll be in a datadump

thesecretmaster

It'd be in one of the data dumps

But that's a pain unless it's the most recent

Because the dumps are massive and the downloads are super slow (server side limit)

Undo

Torrents

Bet it'd be in the most recent, though

thesecretmaster

Where can one get a torrent?

Undo

Usually Internet Archive has them

thesecretmaster

I only saw the archive.org download link

Undo

1:15 AM

sometimes you want to ask someone to start seeding it

Comments is 'only' 3.7G anyway

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