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license: other
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license_name: agpl-3.0
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license_link: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt
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tags:
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- not-for-all-audiences
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language:
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- en
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---
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# Elliquiy roleplaying forum data
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A collection of about X million posts and Y thousands mostly _erotic_ roleplaying forum threads from Elliquiy, from October 2005 through early April 2023. Basic automated cleaning was performed, but the messages are still (by deliberate choice) mostly in HTML format, with the notable exception of converting linebreaks into `\n`.
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In addition to the messages, some metadata was provided for convenience, as well as alternative usernames that could be used instead of directly usernames (in the format of `User0`, `User1` ... `UserN`).
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Consider this a **work in progress**. I might update the dataset in the future as I improve the cleaning procedure.
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# Limitations
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During the scraping procedure (occurred on April 2023) some information like text color and links was lost in the process. Most of the data is adult-themed, and given that usernames inside the posts still exist, it would be best if usernames weren't directly used when training a model with this data.
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Given the text formatting used by many users, complete and thorough conversion to Markdown seems very difficult without losing information in the process or causing other issues.
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# Cleaning procedure details
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## At the element level
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- Converted post dates to ISO format
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- Simplified blockquotes
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- Removed attributes (class, style) from most tags
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- Changed stylistic div/span into their closest HTML counterpart
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- Some deprecated tags have been used
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- Cosmetic font sizes consolidated into three categories: `<small>`, normal, `<big>`
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- Font changes removed
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- Special CSS effects removed
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- Background-colored text into `<mark>`
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- Spoiler tags converted into `<details><summary>` blocks
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- However, inline spoilers don't work well with this—to be checked out at a later time
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- Removed left/right "floating text" `<div>`
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- Removed left/right/justify text-alignment `<div>`
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- Center alignment elements changed to `<center>` (deprecated tag)
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- Tried to reduce the amount of `<table>` elements inappropriately used for cosmetic purposes
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- More work needed
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## At the text level
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- Removed non-standard unicode spaces
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- Changed generic spoiler text
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- Removed some leftover BB tags (most often the result of user error)
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- More work needed
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- Shortened some bare URLs
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- Tried to turn into `<a>` links some URLs, when possible (the data was scraped using a forum function that mangled links in some way)
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- Changed `elliquiy.com` URLs into `example.com`
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- Removed some site-internal URLs
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- Converted all smilies into emoji
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- Removed excessive newlines and leading/trailing spaces
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- Fixed some HTML element spacing issue
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- More work needed
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## NOT done
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- Replacing HTML escape characters
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- Changing fancy punctuation to ASCII punctuation
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- Removing usernames entirely
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