TBBT: r/physical_removal Ban Intervention (2017)
A Reddit (r/physical_removal ban intervention, 2017) dataset of 12,921 pre-ban posts from banned community, 370,492 pre-ban control posts, 222,245 post-ban control posts, collected by Cerulli et al. via Reddit API (ICWSM 2026). Each record contains comment ID, selftext (post body), author (pseudonymized), subreddit, score, created_utc, split label (in-before/out-before/out-after). TBBT r/physical_removal: pre- and post-ban Reddit dataset from The Big Ban Theory — standardized 3-month window around the 2017 moderation intervention with matched control communities. Suitable for content moderation effects, community migration, deplatforming research, pre/post intervention analysis, Reddit ban studies.
Cite this dataset at
tbbt-2017-physical-removal.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 16,747 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Record
- Catalog key
tbbt-2017-physical_removal- Authors
- Cerulli, Aldo; Cima, Lorenzo; Tessa, Benedetta; Tardelli, Serena; Cresci, Stefano
- Year
- 2026
- Source paper
- The Big Ban Theory: A Pre- and Post-Intervention Dataset of Online Content Moderation Actions
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42780
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0)
- Records
- 605,658
- Nodes
- 16,747
- Edges
- 39,773 (directed)
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2017 (3 months pre/post ban) (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/18245670 link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-21, 446.3 MB across 3 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
Citations
The Big Ban Theory: A Pre- and Post-Intervention Dataset of Online Content Moderation Actions
Aldo Cerulli, Lorenzo Cima, Benedetta Tessa, S. Tardelli, Stefano Cresci
Journal Article · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · 2026
Cited by
- Quantifying feature importance for online content moderation
Benedetta Tessa, Alejandro Moreo et al. · EPJ Data Science · 2025 · cited 3× - COMPASS: The 2nd International Workshop on Socio-technical Approaches to Content Moderation and Platform Governance
Robyn Caplan, Stefano Cresci et al. · Proceedings of the 2026 Companion of the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing · 2026 · cited 0× - Control-Theoretic Content Moderation
Benedetta Tessa, S. Tardelli et al. · 2026 · cited 0× - Contextualized Counterspeech Can Be More Persuasive Than Generic Counterspeech
Lorenzo Cima, Alessio Miaschi et al. · arXiv.org · 2026 · cited 0×
Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-22.
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{Cerulli_2026,
title = {The Big Ban Theory: A Pre- and Post-Intervention Dataset of Online Content Moderation Actions},
volume = {20},
issn = {2162-3449},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42780},
doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42780},
number = {1},
journal = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
author = {Cerulli, Aldo and Cima, Lorenzo and Tessa, Benedetta and Tardelli, Serena and Cresci, Stefano},
year = {2026},
month = May,
pages = {2756–2767}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Cerulli, A., Cima, L., Tessa, B., Tardelli, S., & Cresci, S. (2026). TBBT: r/physical_removal Ban Intervention (2017) [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42780
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Cerulli, Aldo, et al. TBBT: r/physical_removal Ban Intervention (2017). 2026, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v20i1.42780.