Social Informatics - 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18-21, 2019, Proceedings
Social Informatics - 11th International Conference, SocInfo 2019, Doha, Qatar, November 18-21, 2019, Proceedings
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社会信息学 - 第 11 届国际会议，SocInfo 2019，卡塔尔多哈，2019 年 11 月 18-21 日，会议记录
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10.1007/978-3-030-34971-4_8
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2019
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2018年3月，令许多用户惊讶的是，与暗网市场（DNM）相关的最大Reddit论坛一夜之间被禁止。对于交易活动严重依赖这些论坛的用户来说，禁令对整个社区构成了威胁。在这项研究中，我们使用了一套完整的帖子，从新成立的论坛在基于黑暗的“恐惧”平台，以检查关键的讨论主题和情绪的社区对禁令。我们关注新论坛的用户参与度，以及保留旧用户名的用户数量。将主题模型应用于新论坛上的帖子，我们发现在被禁止的论坛和新论坛中有许多重叠的主题，并且关于药物的讨论是最突出的，其次是供应商，运输评论和支付方式。我们观察到，新社区对意外的禁令和累积信息的丢失表现出负面情绪，但也对Dread持积极态度，希望它能为用户提供更好的功能和安全性。两个平台的用户都表达了对一般DNM社区的依恋和亲和力，并展示了与商业目的之外的关系。
In March 2018, to the surprise of many users, the largest Reddit forums related to darknet markets (DNM) were banned overnight. For users, whose trading activity relied heavily on these forums, the ban was a threat to the community as a whole. In this study we use a complete set of posts from the newly founded forums in the darknet-based “Dread” platform to examine key discussion topics and the sentiment of the community towards the ban. We look at the level of user engagement in the new forums, and the number of users who retain their old usernames. Applying topic modelling to posts on the new forum, we show that there are many overlapping themes across both the banned and new forums, and that discussions on drugs are the most prominent, followed by vendors, shipping reviews, and payment methods. We observe that the new community demonstrates negative sentiment toward the unexpected ban and the loss of accumulated information, but also holds a favourable view of Dread in the hopes that it will offer greater features and security for the users. Users across both platforms express attachment and affinity to the general DNM community, and demonstrate relation to it beyond the commercial purpose.