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: @[email protected] 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.

    • @REdOGEnglish
      38•1 year ago

      Child sexual assault/abuse material

    • @FontMasterFlex
      10•1 year ago

      Honestly why can’t we just say what it is instead of giving every-fucking-thing an anagram that people have to ask what it is in the first place.

      • LinkOpensChest.wav
        27•1 year ago

        This is what it is, though. The entire point of switching to the term “CSAM” is because it more accurately describes the content as abusive.

        • @candybrie
          11•1 year ago

          I think they’re asking people to type out child sex abuse materials instead of CSAM. It’s not a common enough acronym that people know what it means without explanation. As evidenced by every post using CSAM having someone ask what it means.

          • LinkOpensChest.wav
            5•1 year ago

            There are people in every thread who ask, correct, but it’s pretty widely known by now. It’s no different than people previously having to ask what “CP” meant. Obviously, it’s not a problem and is generally considered to be worth the imperceptible amount of educating people to transition to the new term.

            Personally, I don’t find it annoying to have to explain things, so feel free to ignore the questions and leave it to people like me who don’t struggle with the keyboard. What does it take? Seconds to type out the definition.

            • @candybrie
              1•1 year ago

              I think when transitioning, it’s a good idea to spell the whole phrase out for your first use and then put the acronym in parentheses. And I’m pretty sure the complaint wasn’t needing to explain stuff but needing to ask and then have someone explain. It’s better if communication is clear from the beginning.

        • @NindelofochoEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          I think most platforms will block “CP” too and also that kinda fucks up talking about Cyberpunk

        • @PickTheStick
          9•1 year ago

          *Initialism. Acronyms have to be words, like ACORN or RICE.

          • @jtablerdEnglish
            3•1 year ago

            Thank you, sir or madam, I stand corrected.

            (excellently done, sincere thanks)

      • @SgtAStrawberry
        -12•1 year ago

        I think it falls into the category of, given bad thins new lesser bad words so it doesn’t sound so bad anymore. Because the old word made people fell bad. I have noticed it more and more online especially with stuff that is related to sex, it is ether new words or replace the middle with *.

        • @[email protected]
          15•1 year ago

          You’ve got it backwards, it’s completely the opposite. The old terminology associated it with something that is perhaps perverted but totally legal and done by consenting adults. CSAM makes it 100% clear that this is illegal behavior/activities that creates child victims.

        • @FontMasterFlex
          1•1 year ago

          idk why you’re being downvoted. no one else seemed to want to reply. just downvote and move on. seems like reddit lives on in lemmy afterall.

          That being said, this generation of people is soft. they can’t even say the words.

      • Whitehat HackerEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        More accurate to what it is, CSAM describes it as what it is, abuse material.