Slashdot Online Conversation Threads (Aug 2005–Aug 2006)
A Slashdot dataset of 10,019 discussion threads, August 2005 to August 2006, from the Online Conversation Threads repository of Aragón et al. (ICWSM 2017): 2,084,864 nodes (articles and comments) and 2,075,611 comment-to-parent reply edges, with comment text, moderation scores, timestamps and thread depth. Suitable for online discourse analysis, conversation dynamics and hierarchical reply-tree structure.
Cite this dataset at
slashdot-conversations.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 2,084,864 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 2.1M records; topic model from 20K.
Record
- Catalog key
slashdot-conversations- Authors
- Gómez, Vicenç; Kaltenbrunner, Andreas; Laniado, David
- Year
- 2008
- Source paper
- The Online Conversation Threads Repository (Slashdot, Barrapunto, Wikipedia Talk)
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.5281/zenodo.165404
- License
- CC BY 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 2,084,864
- Nodes
- 2,084,864
- Edges
- 2,075,611
- Attributes
- nodes have attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2005-08/2006-08 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/165404 link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 642.4 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165404,
doi = {10.5281/ZENODO.165404},
url = {https://zenodo.org/record/165404},
author = {Gómez, Vicenç and Kaltenbrunner, Andreas and Laniado, David},
keywords = {Slashdot, Barrapunto, Wikipedia, Conversation threads},
title = {The Online Conversation Threads Repository (Slashdot, Barrapunto, Wikipedia Talk)},
publisher = {Zenodo},
year = {2008},
copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Gómez, V., Kaltenbrunner, A., & Laniado, D. (2008). Slashdot Online Conversation Threads (Aug 2005–Aug 2006) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165404
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Gómez, Vicenç, et al. Slashdot Online Conversation Threads (Aug 2005–Aug 2006). 2008, doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.165404.