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  # Elliquiy roleplaying forum data
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- A collection of 6,640,593 posts and 112,328 thousands of mostly _erotic_ roleplaying forum threads from Elliquiy, from October 2005 through early April 2023. About 9 GB of uncompressed text data (including formatting tags). The data is from the larger [raw Forum RP dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lemonilia/Roleplay-Forums_2023-04) I also uploaded.
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  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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  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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  # Elliquiy roleplaying forum data
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+ A collection of 6,640,593 posts and 112,328 thousands of mostly _erotic_ roleplaying forum threads from Elliquiy, from about mid-2005 through early April 2023. About 9 GB of uncompressed text data (including formatting tags). The data is from the larger [raw Forum RP dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lemonilia/Roleplay-Forums_2023-04) I also uploaded.
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  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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  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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+ # Dataset field explanation
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+ ## Threads
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+ | Field | Explanation
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+ | thread-id | The forum software's given thread id
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+ | thread-title | User-given thread title
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+ | category-id | The id of the subforum where the thread was posted
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+ | category-name | The full name of the subforum. "Small Groups" subforums are dedicated to roleplays for more than two participants, and "Solo" are generally for two participants but more than two may appear here as well.
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+ | participant-count | The number of users writing in the thread
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+ | message-count | The total number of messages in the thread
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+ | word-count-total | The cumulative sum of space-separated words in the thread, calculated by python's `split()` function, including HTML tags
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+ | word-count-median | The median message length in words, calculated by python's `split()` function, including HTML tags
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+ ## Messages
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+ | Field | Explanation
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+ | index | Message number, starting from zero at the beginning of the thread. Added mainly for debugging purposes
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+ | from | The name of the user who wrote the message. **Avoid using** if possible
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+ | from-alternative | Alternative, locally-unique name for the user in the form of `User0` ... `UserN`
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+ | timestamp | ISO UTC message timestamp
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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