Voat — v/anon

Posts from v/anon on Voat, from the Voat archive of Mekacher & Papasavva (ICWSM 2022): 7,471 submissions and 32,011 comments with their text, votes and dates. The archive did not recover the author of almost any post in this subverse, so the entry has no user or reply graph. Suitable for studying anonymous posting, topic modelling and moderation.

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Content metrics

39,482 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

upvotesμ 1.329 ± 3.567
min 0max 155
downvotesμ 0.725 ± 1.805
min 0max 35
scoreμ 0.604 ± 3.446
min -23max 146
is link post56.6% true
true 56.6%false 43.4%
depthμ 1.547 ± 3.135
min -1max 58
6.5
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
7.0
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
whiteronintrumplikepeopledonvoatmessageknowautomatedthinkshittimeaccountgoodfuckwantuserrightwhitedeletedpostfuckingsaidnewgoinganonwayneedlinkgotpresidentworkdaydoesnlookbetterthingfaggotniggermanliferealyearslittlethingsjewsurelolstopdidn
Topic clusters

Topic 0

trump
donald
president
message
automate
putin
mueller
house

Topic 1

delete
account
user
deactivate
helpful
psa
ghostskin
voater

Topic 2

jew
jews
jewish
shill
israel
porn
pornography
child

Topic 3

like
people
time
want
know
thing
feel
think

Topic 4

voat
goat
ban
new
post
site
censor
reddit

Topic 5

thank
love
interesting
head
find
base
person
agree

Topic 6

voat
ban
post
reddit
shill
sub
downvote
censorship

Topic 7

white
racist
people
antifa
leftist
conservative
black
right

Topic 8

fuck
faggot
fucking
incel
shit
fuckin
gay
nigger

Topic 9

anon
post
sub
anonymous
hide
gabara
pussy
coward

Topic 10

trump
president
message
automate
house
donald
tariff
bill

Topic 11

need
want
try
ask
friend
funny
help
mentos
Show all 35 topics

Topic 12

nigger
niggerfaggot
niggersexual
jew
taco
stalk
fph
hate

Topic 13

faggot
cuck
reddit
fag
internet
faggotry
gay
cry

Topic 14

delete
account
user

Topic 15

pedo
pedophile
pedophilia
castrate
shh
cult
pub
confirmed

Topic 16

sure
good
cool
pretty
happy
deserve
hey
guy

Topic 17

girlfriend
sex
girl
wife
little
gender
mom
sad

Topic 18

dick
pic
penis
askin
big
asshole
send
aka

Topic 19

feel
friend
time
life
love
yesterday
like
need

Topic 20

lie
stop
beta
cunt
lol
yay
yes
brag

Topic 21

fuck
fucking
bunker
ass
motherfucker
holy
bitch
cuck

Topic 22

piss
poop
smell
eat
toilet
sniff
paper
water

Topic 23

shit
hacker
news
russia
europe
automate
message
government

Topic 24

youtube
automate
message
video
hbo
twitter
official
music

Topic 25

think
mind
wonder
thought
flattered
disciple
count
exaggeration

Topic 26

drink
drug
beer
alcohol
vodka
rub
alcoholic
milk

Topic 27

know
guitar
shame
lol
sense
bad
soon
mod

Topic 28

sbbh
pedo
pedophile
wow
member
alt
sdbh
srs

Topic 29

npc
repeat
evidence
read
fact
bible
prepackage
conceive

Topic 30

climate
heat
weather
conceal
background
change
sea
florida

Topic 31

pay
fix
break
short
throw
away
job
unemployment

Topic 32

hooktube
automate
message

Topic 33

coronavirus
virus
pandemic
toll
case
trump
death
global

Topic 34

post
point
poster
new
day
transfer
pun
comment
Top hashtags
#metoo16
#ids18115
#submitbutton14
#errormessage12
#18
#28
#me8
#content7
#linkflair6
#suggest6
#comment5
#linkflairselectmodal5
#messagecontainer5
#submissionid5
#france4
#vote4
#giletsjaunes3
#privatemessagereplyform3
#selection3
#subverse3
Top emoji
😂72
🐘63
🤣32
🐻23
🏻14
💕12
🏼11
💦10
😍10
🏽9
👌9
😛9
👨8
🍆7
🎄7

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
voat-anon
Authors
Mekacher, Amin; Papasavva, Antonis
Year
2022
Source paper
"I Can’t Keep It Up." A Dataset from the Defunct Voat.co News Aggregator
DOI / arXiv
10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19382
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (CC-BY-4.0)
Records
36,406
Languages
en
Collected
2015/2020 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://zenodo.org/records/5841668 link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 23.9 MB across 4 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}
}

@article{Mekacher_2022,
  title     = {“I Can’t Keep It Up.” A Dataset from the Defunct Voat.co News Aggregator},
  volume    = {16},
  issn      = {2162-3449},
  url       = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19382},
  doi       = {10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19382},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
  publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  author    = {Mekacher, Amin and Papasavva, Antonis},
  year      = {2022},
  month     = May,
  pages     = {1302–1311}
}

APA

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

Mekacher, A., & Papasavva, A. (2022). Voat — v/anon [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19382

MLA

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

Mekacher, Amin, and Antonis Papasavva. Voat — v/anon. 2022, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19382.

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