ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

Stack Exchange — moderators.stackexchange.com

AnalyzedSmallgraphtextStack ExchangeAcademicContent moderationEngagementKnowledge sharingQ&ASocial graph

A Stack Exchange (moderators.stackexchange.com) dataset of 540 users, 1,030 answer-collaboration edges, 582 questions, 1,296 answers, collected by Stack Exchange, Inc. via the annual Stack Exchange Data Dump. Each record contains user nodes (reputation, badge counts, vote history), directed weighted edges (answerer→asker, weight=answer score, count=interactions, accepted=bool), post text, tag distribution. User collaboration network from moderators.stackexchange.com — directed weighted graph where edges represent knowledge-sharing relationships (A answered B's question), with edge weight reflecting answer quality. Enables prestige hierarchy, community detection, and expertise flow analysis.. Suitable for expertise network analysis, reputation systems, community detection, knowledge flow, PageRank-based authority ranking, Q&A platform dynamics..

#Community moderator#Expertise network#Stack exchange data dump

Cite this dataset at stackexchange-moderators-stackexchange-com.echo.directory

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Analytics

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Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.

540
Nodes
1K
Edges
3.54e-03
Density
20
Components
-0.1031
Assortativity
3.9%
Reciprocity
287
Bridges
Most central nodes
830.08349
500.03896
6530.0334
1420.02968
4370.02968
780.02968
110.02412
130.02412
1450.02412
460.02412
Content metrics

1,878 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 7.006 ± 7.719
min -5max 135
view countμ 93.822 ± 425.607
min 0max 9.7K
answer countavg 0.69 / 9
0std 1.369
comment countμ 1 ± 1.739
min 0max 13
9.9
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
communityuserspeopleusersitedonlikemoderatortimewantmoderatorsquestionnewwaypostneedgoodmemberscontentrulesknowthinkusepostshelpanswerquotquestionsproblemgroupforumthingsworktopicpersonaskexampledoesnpointgoingcommunitiesdiscussionmoderationstackdifferentcasecommentssureisntry
Topic clusters

Topic 0

question
answer
thank
edit
think
ask
like
good

Topic 1

site
question
content
user
post
community
answer
people

Topic 2

community
group
member
people
need
time
meeting
want

Topic 3

moderator
community
action
user
moderation
site
need
mod

Topic 4

slack
community
platform
channel
online
group
like
question

Topic 5

spam
user
flag
account
post
site
system
anonymous

Topic 6

rule
user
people
policy
punishment
action
behavior
site

Topic 7

troll
offensive
joke
people
post
racist
person
community

Topic 8

ban
permanent
user
account
block
time
community
temporary

Topic 9

game
player
server
play
user
rule
time
community

Topic 10

vote
voting
post
downvote
people
system
count
upvote

Topic 11

user
deal
handle
read
rule
fraud
private
break
Show all 13 topics

Topic 12

chat
room
time
people
irc
active
moderate
user
Top hashtags
#118
#211
#38
#46
#394
#82124
#53
#suicidewatch3
#chan2
#channel2
#13141
#193222241
#321
#6131
#81
#appropriate1
#comment101658_1148491
#comment21260_133001
#comment3456_29141
#comment4497_31351

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-moderators-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2025
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 (by post date) (CC-BY-SA-2.5 AND CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
4,496
Nodes
540
Edges
1,030 (directed)
Nodes are
user (Stack Exchange account)
Edges are
answer collaboration (A answered B's question)
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
Text corpus
question titles, post bodies, comment text, tag names
Languages
en
Collected
2014/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://archive.org/download/stackexchange link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 3.1 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

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}
}

@misc{stackexchange_2025,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/download/stackexchange}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2025). Stack Exchange — moderators.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-moderators-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — moderators.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-moderators-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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