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# Elliquiy roleplaying forum data
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A collection of 6,640,593 posts and 112,328 forum threads from Elliquiy (arguably the largest and one of the oldest
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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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# Limitations, quirks and issues
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During the scraping procedure (performed on April 2023) some information like text color and links was lost in the process.
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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 formatting problems.
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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.
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# Elliquiy roleplaying forum data
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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.
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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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# Limitations, quirks and issues
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During the scraping procedure (performed on April 2023) some information like text color and links was lost in the process.
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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 formatting problems.
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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.
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