Our quantitative analyses confirm many of the statements made in our qualitative interviews and provide further insights into the specific nature of interactions on the subreddit. In RoastMe, roasters rely heavily on perspective-taking rather than dissociation from their targets, roastees highly value the often scathing assessments offered by users on RoastMe, and, despite the salience of norms that enhance feelings of safety, there is lingering concern among participants about the potential for emotional or psychological harm. From our interviews, we found that, like other deviant online communities, RoastMe relies on a specific set of norms. To complement our qualitative analyses, we also analyzed a RoastMe data set of over 9,000 image posts and 230,000 comments from June-August of 2017. We conducted semi-structured interviews with sixteen participants (both "roasters" and "roastees") in the online forum to understand their motivations for participating, their experiences in the subreddit, and their perceptions of their and other members' participation.
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We present a mixed methods study of the online forum r/RoastMe, a comedy-focused subreddit of the parent site, wherein members post photos of themselves to be ridiculed by other members the site generally encourages harsh and offensive forms of humor in these interper-sonal exchanges. Our results indicate that even analyzing public forums such as the DarkNetMarkets subreddit can reveal trends and keywords related to criminal activity and their methods, and that users of the dark web appear to be becoming increasingly more security-minded due to the recent law enforcement events. After extracting, filtering out irrelevant posts, and preprocessing the text crawled from the subreddit, we perform Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling on a corpus of posts for each month from November 5th, 2016 to November 5th, 2017. To quickly understand how this affected the markets and the choice of tools utilized by users of darknet markets, we use unsupervised topic modeling techniques on the DarkNetMarkets subreddit in order to determine prominent topics and terms, and how they have changed over a year's time.
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In July 2017, significant law enforcement operations compromised or completely took down multiple international darknet markets. Darknet markets, which can be considered as online black markets, in general sell illegal items such as drugs, firearms, and malware.