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Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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: @Striker@lemmy.world 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.

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[+] jarfil@lemmy.world -12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

evil disgusting person monster

please don't use this as an opportunity to inject bad-faith arguments

💯 Totally agree.

Let's discuss the problem: a Lemmy community got abused by a ~~evil~~ ~~disgusting~~ person ~~monster~~. How can moderation be improved, without hiring sub-minimum wage people in the 3rd world to do the "hotdog vs. not-hotdog" filtering, or harming a community that's literally about shitposting?

Edit: Wow your post history is a lot of the same garbage, there is no point in attempting to reason with you, you seem to be defending the act of CSAM or just trolling (really awful and severe trolling I might add, CSAM isn't something to joke or troll about).

Well, you had your chance, apparently you're more interested in trolling.

[–] Whitehat93875@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah I see what's going on, you're salty that they closed the shitposting community so you're trolling here, going so far as to compare gays and jews to pedophillia (which is extremely bigoted and incorrect) or downplay the horrific acts that led to the closing of that community and registrations to protect the rest of the Instance's well being.

Also I'd appreciate it if you didn't edit what I said when quoting me, thanks.

[+] jarfil@lemmy.world -8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] AceLucario@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing you say matters, because you're defending pedophiles. Whoops.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm not defending pedophiles, I'm attacking bigots. And now you're blocked, "whoops".

[–] Whitehat93875@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lol you do realize blocking on Lemmy means to ignore them, it's not going to silence them or more critically prevent them from downvoting or reporting you like it does on Reddit.

You're just going to stop seeing them, they can keep calling you out for it. You just made it easier for them.

[–] AceLucario@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Oh no. Anyways...

[–] Whitehat93875@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Amazing, you think that being against pedophiles makes someone a bigot, do you think the same applies to being against Nazis as well? Paradox of tolerance much?

There's a very clear difference between the arguments you cited and pedophilia, which is that pedophilia causes physical and psychological harm to the child who is the victim and also is extremely psychologically harmful to the people who witness such event or the abuse material from it. I don't think you realize how severe this is or you wouldn't be trying to defend such heinous acts right now.