Hi Reddit,
I'm currently conducting research into user experiences of buying on the first version of Silk Road (V1.0) for the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University in Australia. This research is being conducted from a harm reduction perspective, is non-invasive and expresses a curiosity about the social and personal implications for buying drugs online through a DNM. Silk Road (V1.0) was a major player in this environment and relatively stable and trusted for an extended period of time.
With the Silkroad subreddit folding, I no longer have a clearweb public discussion of this research and thought I would repost it here for those who may be interested.
There has been discussion about the project through Tor at the Hub Forums. Having a look at this would give you a good idea about who I am and how the research is being conducted.
We're still interviewing for this research into people's experiences of drug purchase and use for the next 2 months. With the Silkroad story coming to a close and people moving to other marketplaces, this is a retrospective discussion about your experiences there.
We'd like to call for another 10 participants, from anywhere in the world, to talk about their experiences anonymously over encrypted IM. Here's our plain language statement. If you would be interested in participating, or would like to know more about the research, please email me at Alexia.Maddox@curtin.edu.au. My username on the Hub forums is alexiamadd and my twitter handle is also @alexiamadd. My research profile has a link with my public PGP key.
Thanks for your consideration of this research.
You can still view the subreddit. Simply go to the top right of this page, click preferences, then scroll to "allow subreddits to show me custom styles" and uncheck it. Save, go back to /r/silkroad and there you go.