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2y ago

An upswing in actual, literal shitposting

Over the past few days , possibly longer, someone has been making new accounts and using them to post scat porn in various communities here. Like, gifs of poop coming from buttholes.

What the fuck and can we do something about it?

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Honestly these type of scat spamming has been really discouraging on me. I spend time and money so that the community can have a reliable and nice instance to call home, only to have a few (not sure what to call them) people try to ruin it for everyone. If these people are reading this comment, just know that every time you make these kinds of unwanted posts you are taking my time away from my family and young kids to address the reports.
My nights lately have been mostly used for coding some extra moderation tools that will moderate these in the future.
I sincerely apologize for all of you who have been exposed to literal shit images over the last week. I’m working as fast as I can and will implement something soon.
In the meanwhile i’ve added a few new admins to help with this moderation.
- Thanks for being the Dude, my dude. Sorry for the static.
  Take breaks when you need to. This is new to all of us.
  You're appreciated
- You and your family come first. I really appreciate all you do to make this instance available and work, but if this ever becomes a burden rather than a pleasure, I truly hope you will step away.
- You are appreciated, TheDude. I'm sorry you have to sacrifice family time putting out fires, that's not right. There is definitely a wave of communities making an effort to recruit volunteer mods. Unfortunately, they need experienced mods and those that fit the bill seem...burnt-out? Weary? I volunteered as an mod for one and they said, thanks, love your attitude, do you speak Ukrainian? :) What else can a Lemmit do to help?
- Thanks for helping! I've been trying to remove/ban people from my community when I see it get reported.
- Thank you for spending your personal time and money on SJW. We appreciate it! Make sure your family and your own well-being come first, though. Those are way more important than us random people on the internet.
- Take care of your family first! Thank you for your support
- Also, don't get burned out! Take care of your mental health. You're doing the Lord's work, He will prosper YOUR work and provide you what you need to fight evil.

They're also sending them as messages.
This exposes a number of very serious issues with Lemmy.
The inexplicable lack of a delete option for messages in your inbox.
The fact that blocking a user does not remove or hide messages they've sent you from your inbox.
The lack of a report button.
The fact that it's possible to send direct messages with inline images and have those images immediately show up for the end user (absolutely incredible that not one person ever said "Yo, what happens when people use this to send dick pics?")
I've gotten some from @thewatcher already. Hopefully some mod or server admin can get on the job of banning them.
- Re: 3. Lemmy 100% has a report button. In the the vertical dot menu under a comment on the webui.
  And in your dm's its the flag button. Lemmy messages aren't truly private so admins should be able to see and take action.
  
  Well, I tried it, and it just sits there and spins an "in progress" wheel. No idea if those reports actually went through or not.

Instances likely need global moderators or a team of admins that can address the issue. The growth of Lemmy and Kbin left the larger communities without enough volunteer staff to deal with the influx.
The instances would also benefit from a bit of cross-site collaboration. If a terrible user is spamming / botting / trolling, having a "league of allied instances" willing to ban and block the user on all of them would be beneficial.

All you can really do is report it. Message admins if it stays up too long. Other than that just hope they get bored
- Is there such a thing as a report button in Lemmy, because I can't seem to find one?
  
  Click the "more" button (three vertical dots), then the flag button!

Probably spez in a pathetic attempt to shit on the lemmy platform :-P

feddit.de defederated this instance over this spam. Really makes me sour towards Lemmy as a concept. Now I can't access all of the German speaking communities, just because one guy keeps spamming scat porn? And the feddit.de admin apparently only seeing defederation as the only option? Fuck that.
- That says more about that admin then about Lemmy.
  
  At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised if we defederated the source instance of all this crap just to stop the bleeding - it was stated by Beehaw and clearly obvious now that Lenny’s moderation tools are lacking.
  
  It does, but it's the way Lemmy is designed that gives the admin so much "power" to take chunks of the fediverse offline for others

Just a suggestion but how about making a barrier of entry to post images? Like >5 posts with >5 up votes and 48 hours will unlock images functionality? It won't be a silver bullet but might make it annoying to create multiple accounts and participate enough.
- And if they go through it enough to get enough accounts to upvote themselves to get past the barrier then it'd be easier to forensically find all their accounts and shut them all down. It'd make them lose a lot of time enough for a deterrent.

To be fair, it's been more than three days since That One Meme. Maybe they are just letting it all out.

Block them? Is that too difficult?
- Why not just stop people from semi-metaphorically shitting the place up?

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