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Trolls are spamming CP on AskLemmy@Lemmy.world (self.meta)

submitted 9 months ago by andrewrgross to c/meta

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I don't know if you need this info, but I was pretty disturbed to see unexpected child pornography on a casual community. Thankfully it didn't take place on SLRPNK.net directly, but if anyone has any advice besides leaving the community in question, let me know. And I wanted to sound an alarm to make sure we have measures in place to guard against this.

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[–] MrMakabar 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It should be reports and limited to users with some form of track record on the platform. So posted some time earlier, has gotten X likes, account age and similar measures to make sure it is not problematic.

Downvotes are a bad measure. They are often just done by somebody disagreeing with a post, which often are not exactly a problem. Also 10 is really low, when something really takes off. On the c/meme half the posts have more then 10downvotes, but nothing is really all that bad.

[–] mars296@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The best suggestion I have seen is to have a specific report category for CSAM. If a post is reported for CSAM x number of times, the post is hidden for moderator review. If it is a false report, the mod bans the reporting accounts.

Another issue is that post links can be edited. Trolls will definitely use this feature for abuse.

[–] silence7 1 points 9 months ago

Ranking algorithms need to be adjusted so that if a post is removed like this, and then restored, it gets the same number of views it otherwise would have. Without that, a user-interaction driven automatic removal will get abused at scale.

[–] activistPnk 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You can see below in this thread herein that someone got >10 downvotes for a perfectly reasonable and civil post by people who merely disagreed with their comment. Automatic censorship would be overly interventionalist. I would not want to participate in a forum that auto-censored like that. Downvotes did their job -- pushed the msg low on the page for reduced visibility.