Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)
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#4> Usernames are replaced with consistent pseudonyms generated by the
mimesis library, ensuring that identifiers remain unique and contextually meaningful across records. Similarly, user IDs and message IDs are hashed using the SHA-256 algorithm and truncated to 12 characters. This deterministic hashing approach maintains linkage between related records while effectively masking the original identifiers. The global name field, deemed unnecessary for analysis, is entirely removed. Additionally, user IDs embedded within the content field are identified via regular expressions and replaced with their corresponding hash values.
Seems pretty thorough, though this is may end up being a good lesson for GenZ/A not to post things in public spaces on the internet.
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#5The biggest problem that sucks about discord is that it isn't normally publicly searchable. And it seems to be a modern replacement for internet forums which historically were publicly searchable and often had a lot of great information about various hobbies and things.
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#6Pretty sure this violates Discord's Terms of Service, there was someone selling access to logs from servers the person running the website was joining on self-bots (TOS) and the person would just log all available data. Discord definitely got legal on them. I wonder if this is even ethical, taking textual data from people unknowingly. Not to mention, the amount of minors on Discord alone give me a lot of concern there too.
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#7> Usernames are replaced with consistent pseudonyms generated by the mimesis library, ensuring that identifiers remain unique and contextually meaningful across records. Similarly, user IDs and message IDs are hashed using the SHA-256 algorithm and truncated to 12 characters. This deterministic hashing approach maintains linkage between related records while effectively masking the original identifiers. The global na…
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#8The biggest problem that sucks about discord is that it isn't normally publicly searchable. And it seems to be a modern replacement for internet forums which historically were publicly searchable and often had a lot of great information about various hobbies and things.
Agreed. Some use it as a knowledgebase and issue tracker and forum and chatroom in one. I absolutely despise it for that use case.
I mean I use it for voice chatting with friends while gaming too and it's fine for that.
But if I have to beg and plead to a discord bot to join a channel to just read some docs, I'm just going to ignore your project. Not sorry about that at all.
Re: Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)
#9The biggest problem that sucks about discord is that it isn't normally publicly searchable. And it seems to be a modern replacement for internet forums which historically were publicly searchable and often had a lot of great information about various hobbies and things.
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#10Pretty sure this violates Discord's Terms of Service, there was someone selling access to logs from servers the person running the website was joining on self-bots (TOS) and the person would just log all available data. Discord definitely got legal on them. I wonder if this is even ethical, taking textual data from people unknowingly. Not to mention, the amount of minors on Discord alone give me a lot of concern ther…
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