I hope that Lemmy instance admins are keeping the IP addresses of the trolls that post CSAM.
I don’t think by default anyone wants instances to log and save IP addresses (not sure what the normal practice even is), but specifically saving that for people who get banned is wise. These people are committing jailable crimes and if law enforcement does come knocking, it would be both morally and selfishly (for self-preservation) good to have that info to share.
Mod of a larger community here (which is still small compared to Reddit).
The mod tools for Lemmy aren’t great. For example, Lemmy doesn’t have the ability to send separate high priority notifications for reports.
All in all, your mods need help. Volunteer to moderate so we have more eyeballs, and continue to make noise about Lemmy needing better tools. You can block if you want, but that doesn’t address the core problem.
I’m not a mod here, but the lemmy.world admins have set me up with some tools and bots to take care of trouble makers.
So the reports never made it to me because I’m not a mod.
A bot got the reports showing the offensive subject and a button for “Perma Ban” and it looked (to me) like the Perma Ban had already been enabled.
It now looks like it wasn’t. :(
So this post was brought to the attention of an Admin chat that I’m part of, I ran down the post manually and hit it with the ban-hammer bot as well as going back through the bot posts and making sure the Perma Ban option was triggered.
HOPEFULLY it’s gone now. The user should be permanently banned as well.
Because while I am a lemmy.world mod, I’m not a mod for lemmyshitpost.
I see all the reports for Politics and World News and a few other TINY communities (hello Comic Books!) but I wouldn’t ordinarily see the reports for lemmyshitpost.
That’s where the bot comes in. Multiple reports happening really quickly get reported to Discord and then all of us can go “Whoah, what’s going on?”
If we click the link and it’s legit bad, there’s a Perma Ban button that any of us can use even if we aren’t a mod on that community.
In my case, I clicked the link in Discord and the post didn’t load and I was like “Cool! Already done! One less thing to worry about!”
But that wasn’t because it was resolved, it was because I had blocked lemmyshitpost from my personal feed. :(
I realized what had happened when I saw the discussion this morning, ran down the post and used all the bots to unleash hell. ;)
I purposely seek out the meme communities now. I send lots of memes to friends and have become known as a font of memes, and really I have Lemmy to thank for it
The problem isn’t the community, it’s the instances with quick no-checks signups that they can create an account on in seconds, they don’t care if the account gets nuked because they can spend another 1.3 seconds making another. They can post in any community.
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