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LemmyWorld forced to close shitposting community due to CSAM spammers (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca
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They also shut down registration

Whoever is spamming CP deserves the woodchipper

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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Okay, honest question. What mod tools are lacking. If there's something needed, what is that thing or things?

I went over to the feature request page for Lemmy and I couldn't find anything massive in terms of requests for moderation tools that would have been sure fire ways to stop this particular event.

That said, there is over 400 open feature requests alone on Lemmy's github. I obviously couldn't go through every single one. But coming from the kbin side I'm just curious about our Lemmy brothers and sisters. It sounds dire and I'm woefully under informed on how bad it is.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    There aren't enough roles. There's admin, moderator, and user, but it would be best to have tiers of user in between. Reports go to 4 categories of user when you file a report. Report a comment for violating a fun rule your community decided to implement (all post titles must contain "Jon Bois Rules!")? That report goes to: the community moderators (good), the community's host instance's admin (bad), your instance's admin (bad), the user who posted the "offending post"'s instance's admin (bad).

    Only admins can permanently remove illegal content. If a mod "removes" it, it still sits visible to all in modlog, and for the purposes of CSAM specifically, that counts as distribution which is prosecuted as a worse crime than possession. Federation with other instances is effectively binary. You can or cannot federate, you cannot set traffic as unidirectional like you can on most other fediverse platforms. The modlogs make it hard to parse who the moderator performing an action is acting on the behalf of. Was it a community mod? An admin? Your admin?

    There's more but my phone is getting low on battery

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Agreed, I don't know what AutoMod did on Reddit but if what mods need is a rule-configurable post remover then I'd be happy to clobber together something in Python

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    If you've really got the time and energy I think you would see pretty heavy use of such a tool. I think the existing libraries are definitely mature enough. I've been surprised that nobody has done it already

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Nice, do you happen to remember what the most popular moderation rules were? So far I can think of:

    • Minimum karma/account age to post/comment
    • Post title must contain X

    I have exams in September but if I get a free day it should be enough to get something working

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