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.

    • jarfil@lemmy.world
      748·
      10 months ago

      “Terrorist”. Having the images doesn’t mean they liked them, they used them to terrorize a whole community though.

      • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        “Petophilile enabled Terrorist” or “petophilic terrorist” depending on the person

        It still means they can tolerate CSAM or are normalized to it enough that they can feel anything other than discust during “shipping and handling”.

      • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        All of your comments have “banned” next to them for me (logged in via lemmy.world using Liftoff) - any idea why?

        I assume you’re not actually banned…?

        • Whitehat Hacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          10 months ago

          They were banned because they were defending pedophilia (advocating for them to be able to get off to what turns them on) and also trolling very aggressively. You can look at them in the Modlog on the Website, not sure if Apps implement the modlog yet though.

            • Whitehat Hacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
              31·
              10 months ago

              I have not clue, people can be quite toxic and horrible. Also noticed that they reduced his ban, not sure why, defending pedophilia is pretty bad and definitely carries legal risk but it’s not my call to make.

        • jarfil@lemmy.world
          13·
          10 months ago

          Yeah, got banned for forgetting that some axioms give people free pass to say whatever they want, no matter how they say it… and replying in kind is forbidden. My bad.

          • Whitehat Hacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            You were banned because you were arguing for why people shouldn’t be arrested for possession of CSAM material, trolling and straw-manning in the replies, and on top of that attempting to seriously and honestly advocate for pedophiles on another community, which is at best borderline illegal (anyone can check the modlog on that one if they don’t believe me, I wouldn’t make such claims if they weren’t true).

            So to summerize you were banned for

            • Trolling
            • Promoting Illegal Activities (Pedophilla and CSAM)