Stack Exchange — tor.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (tor.stackexchange.com) dataset of 4,575 users, 5,884 answer-collaboration edges, 5,792 questions, 7,087 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 tor.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..

#Anonymity#Expertise network#Reputation#Stack exchange data dump#Tor

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The full graph has 4,575 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

4.6K
Nodes
5.9K
Edges
2.81e-04
Density
268
Components
-0.1786
Assortativity
0.5%
Reciprocity
3.1K
Bridges
Most central nodes
9230.007
6100.00437
1000.00372
1140.00372
12920.0035
49900.0035
710.0035
880.0035
640.00328
148320.00306
Content metrics

12,879 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 1.716 ± 3.265
min -4max 89
view countμ 1.2K ± 7.9K
min 0max 338.6K
answer countμ 0.55 ± 0.882
min 0max 13
comment countμ 1.025 ± 1.913
min 0max 47
8.2
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.0
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
torbrowserusenetworknoticeserviceserverlikeexitonionnoderelayfileaddressproxyconnectionssethiddendonknowconnectruntrafficconnectionrunningquotportneedwantnewclienttimedirectorytorrccircuitquestionwaywarndataworktailsuser127socksproblemnodesbridgesitetrylog
Topic clusters

Topic 0

browser
tor
start
download
firefox
bundle
file
run

Topic 1

service
hidden
hide
key
hiddenserviceport
hiddenservicedir
server
address

Topic 2

browser
javascript
noscript
firefox
user
addon
flash
disable

Topic 3

tail
tails
gpg
usb
key
drive
signature
boot

Topic 4

relay
bandwidth
flag
day
guard
limit
consensus
run

Topic 5

exit
node
country
exitnodes
strictnodes
excludenodes
torrc
list

Topic 6

proxy
socksport
port
socks
use
tor
sock
privoxy

Topic 7

question
answer
link
post
good
thank
ask
topic

Topic 8

circuit
stem
new
stream
controller
import
tor
change

Topic 9

vpn
iptable
tor
openvpn
tcp
traffic
use
port

Topic 10

bridge
port
orport
sep
exitpolicy
transport
pluggable
reachable

Topic 11

tor
question
work
implementation
traffic
network
safe
project
Show all 28 topics

Topic 12

orbot
android
app
orfox
device
phone
connect
vpn

Topic 13

connect
network
tor
establish
fail
connection
verizon
browser

Topic 14

file
apr
torrc
notice
tor
log
socksport
nov

Topic 15

email
facebook
anonymous
account
mail
send
anonymity
use

Topic 16

notice
warn
connection
handshake
disablenetwork
socks
state
bootstrappe

Topic 17

browser
chrome
tor
open
google
work
window
browse

Topic 18

whonix
gateway
workstation
host
jun
virtualbox
use
jessie

Topic 19

time
clock
timezone
utc
identity
zone
accurate
ntp

Topic 20

service
point
rendezvous
hidden
introduction
descriptor
hsdir
client

Topic 21

dns
resolve
dnscrypt
udp
leak
server
resolver
use

Topic 22

node
traffic
encrypt
relay
exit
datum
send
client

Topic 23

guard
node
circuit
entry
relay
hop
middle
cell

Topic 24

version
update
browser
tor
late
old
upgrade
new

Topic 25

build
openssl
compile
apt
src
package
install
binary

Topic 26

onion
hostname
subdomain
address
site
domain
php
host

Topic 27

user
tor
nsa
people
node
government
fbi
know
Top hashtags
#1336
#warning114
#log63
#orport51
#exitpolicy50
#hiddenserviceport49
#tor48
#dirport47
#036
#235
#sockspolicy35
#hiddenservicedir34
#socksport32
#accountingstart31
#contactinfo29
#details29
#3923
#search20
#hashedcontrolpassword18
#typicalabuses18

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-tor-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
32,282
Nodes
4,575
Edges
5,884 (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
2013/2024 (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, 12.1 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 — tor.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-tor-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 — tor.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-tor-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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