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?
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.
Do you have a link to these tools that you’re coding? I’d be happy to help you out myself.
EDIT:
Until federation is better at coordinating deletions to other Lemmy instances and Kbin (check this thread on kbin, the comments are only removed because I reported them to the instance admin), the API redacts removed comment content instead of just returning a flag that says removed, and the trolling with NSFW imagery and usernames with slurs is reduced, I’m gonna refrain from posting on Lemmy.
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?
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?
Probably spez in a pathetic attempt to shit on the lemmy platform :-P
