Datasets:

lemonilia
/

Elliquiy-Role-Playing-Forums_2023-04

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 # Elliquiy roleplaying forum data
-A collection of 6,640,593 posts and 112,328 mostly high-effort _adult_ roleplaying forum threads from Elliquiy, from April 2005 through April 2023. About 9 GB of uncompressed text data (including formatting tags). The data was processed from the larger [raw Forum RP dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lemonilia/Roleplay-Forums_2023-04) collection I also uploaded.
 Basic automated cleaning was performed, but the messages are still (by deliberate choice) in HTML format, with the notable exception of converting linebreaks into `\n`.
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 Consider this a **work in progress**. I might update the dataset in the future as I improve the cleaning procedure or the data format.
-# Limitations and issues
 During the scraping procedure (performed 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.
 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 formatting problems.
-# Basic usage
 The files need PyArrow installed from `pip` to be loaded with `pandas`. FastParquet will not work properly due to the nested data structure.
 ```python

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 # Elliquiy roleplaying forum data
+A collection of 6,640,593 posts and 112,328 forum threads from Elliquiy (arguably the largest and one of the oldest adult roleplaying forums on the Internet), from April 2005 through April 2023. About 9 GB of uncompressed text data (including formatting tags). The data was processed from the larger [raw Forum RP dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lemonilia/Roleplay-Forums_2023-04) collection I also uploaded.
 Basic automated cleaning was performed, but the messages are still (by deliberate choice) in HTML format, with the notable exception of converting linebreaks into `\n`.
 Consider this a **work in progress**. I might update the dataset in the future as I improve the cleaning procedure or the data format.
+# Limitations, quirks and issues
 During the scraping procedure (performed 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.
 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 formatting problems.
+Note that messages in older threads (low `thread-id`) were in general shorter and more casually written than those in newer ones. This might be due to a slow shift over time in the userbase and/or self-selection due to access requirements.
+![Median message length trend](https://files.catbox.moe/da3si9.png)
+# Basic usage
 The files need PyArrow installed from `pip` to be loaded with `pandas`. FastParquet will not work properly due to the nested data structure.
 ```python