Slashdot Discussion Thread Network
A Slashdot (technology news discussion forum) dataset of 51,083 nodes and 131,175 edges, collected by KONECT via Slashdot crawl. Each record contains directed: True, weighted: True, temporal: True. Directed reply network of Slashdot discussion threads — different from the Slashdot Zoo signed network, this captures comment reply structure.. Suitable for discussion thread analysis, online community structure, reply network analysis.
Cite this dataset at
slashdot-threads.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 51,083 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
slashdot-threads- Authors
- Gómez, Vicenç; Kaltenbrunner, Andreas; López, Vicente
- Year
- 2008
- Source paper
- Statistical analysis of the social network and discussion threads in slashdot
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1145/1367497.1367585
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 51,083
- Nodes
- 51,083
- Edges
- 131,175 (directed)
- Nodes are
- comment
- Edges are
- reply
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2008 (2000s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://konect.cc/networks/slashdot-threads/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 886.2 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
Statistical analysis of the social network and discussion threads in slashdot
V. Gómez, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Vicente López
Journal Article · The Web Conference · 2008
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.
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}
}
@inproceedings{G_mez_2008,
series = {WWW ’08},
title = {Statistical analysis of the social network and discussion threads in slashdot},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367585},
doi = {10.1145/1367497.1367585},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web},
publisher = {ACM},
author = {Gómez, Vicenç and Kaltenbrunner, Andreas and López, Vicente},
year = {2008},
month = Apr,
pages = {645–654},
collection = {WWW ’08}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Gómez, V., Kaltenbrunner, A., & López, V. (2008). Slashdot Discussion Thread Network [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367585
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Gómez, Vicenç, et al. Slashdot Discussion Thread Network. 2008, doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367585.