Hello everyone,

We unfortunately have to close the !lemmyshitpost community for the time being. We have been fighting the CSAM (Child Sexual Assault Material) posts all day but there is nothing we can do because they will just post from another instance since we changed our registration policy.

We keep working on a solution, we have a few things in the works but that won’t help us now.

Thank you for your understanding and apologies to our users, moderators and admins of other instances who had to deal with this.

Edit: @[email protected] the moderator of the affected community made a post apologizing for what happened. But this could not be stopped even with 10 moderators. And if it wasn’t his community it would have been another one. And it is clear this could happen on any instance.

But we will not give up. We are lucky to have a very dedicated team and we can hopefully make an announcement about what’s next very soon.

Edit 2: removed that bit about the moderator tools. That came out a bit harsher than how we meant it. It’s been a long day and having to deal with this kind of stuff got some of us a bit salty to say the least. Remember we also had to deal with people posting scat not too long ago so this isn’t the first time we felt helpless. Anyway, I hope we can announce something more positive soon.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    So you should understand that what you said is invalid. Automod doesn’t post porn without a subreddit owner configuring it to and just because it posts 2/3 to NSFW subs doesn’t mean it is posting content just working more there.

    We could 100% take advantage of a similar tool, maybe we some better controls on what mods can make it do. I’m working to bring BotDefence to Lemmy because it is needed.

    • @[email protected]
      -2•1 year ago

      You completely missed the point.

      By the statistics of the data I found, most of the subreddits using AutoModerator are filth communities.

      So you can reverse that, check AutoModerator comment history, and find a treasure trove of filth.

      I can’t help that these are the facts I dug up, but yeah AutoModerator is most active in porn communities.

        • @[email protected]
          1•1 year ago

          No no, I am well aware it’s a bot account which is programmed by moderators to filter out certain things and perform other automated tasks.

          It just so happens that many of the communities that AutoModerator has to take action in are filth communities.