Recall that assortativity is a particular case of homophily in social networks, which indicates the tendency of a node to cooperate with nodes having similar characteristics. Īssortativity Analysis, to extend and deepen the previous analyses to discover and study whether possible forms of assortativity exist among the authors of NSFW posts.Social Network Analysis, to study the co-posting phenomenon, and therefore the interactions between authors of NSFW posts. ĭescriptive Analysis, to study the distributions of the entities involved in the phenomenon (e.g., the distribution of NSFW posts against subreddits, authors, score and comments).For this purpose, we consider a dataset that includes all the posts published in Reddit from January 1 st, 2019 to December 31 st, 2019.ĭuring our investigation, we carried out three types of analysis, namely: In this paper, we give a contribution in this setting investigating the phenomenon of NSFW posts in Reddit and describing the whole context (authors, subreddits and readers) behind it. The study about the role of images and selfies in NSFW content of, presented in, and the analysis of the anonymity level of NSFW content in both Twitter and Whisper, described in are two examples. In addition, several authors have focused on the analysis of this phenomenon in other social networks. Since its first appearance, many social media, such as Twitter, WhatsApp and Reddit, have adopted it to indicate certain sections or contents. The term “NSFW” has been proposed since 1998, and is one of the oldest acronyms of the Internet. In fact, only a very small number of authors have analyzed it. The phenomenon of NSFW posts in Reddit has been very little investigated, although it is very common in this social medium.
#Reddit gone wild professional#
This term refers to user-submitted content not suitable to be viewed in public or in professional contexts. One aspect of Reddit worth to be analyzed involves NSFW (Not Safe For Work) posts. Furthermore, many papers have focused on specific aspects of this social network, concerning, for example, community structures and interactions, ,, user behavior, ,, structure and content of subreddits, posts and comments, structural properties, ,, text classification, user migration, political and ideological aspects. In, the authors present an interesting longitudinal analysis of the evolution of this social medium. It has been extensively studied by researchers in the past. More technical details can be found in the HackerOne write-up.Reddit 1 is currently one of the most active social media. The issue was patched and the security researcher received a $500 bug bounty reward for reporting it.
If they then open a crafted HTML file of malicious content, their settings will be updated and they will, unwittingly, be able to view NSFW content. Next, the user visits the ‘not safe for work’ (NSFW) subreddit where there is a window asking if the user wants to see adult content. The reproduction steps begin with a victim creating a Reddit account, navigating to and turning off the option declaring the user is over 18 years old and willing to view adult content. An attacker can trick users into executing the action, enabling/disabling ‘I am over eighteen years old’ and willing to view adult content preference in the victim account.” The medium severity security bug disabled the option to turn on certain settings, meaning that any user who has opted to restrict adult content could instead be directed towards it by malicious hackers.Ī bug report reads: “A state-changing POST request to lacked proper modhash validator leaving the sensitive action vulnerable to CSRF attacks. Mischievous hackers exploiting flaw could subvert ‘not safe for work’ restrictionsĪ cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Reddit forced users to view adult content.
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