I disagree with karma as a concept, but I agree that there should be restrictions of this kind in place. It’s not user friendly, but if it minimizes the chance of someone uploading sick stuff on Lemmy then I support it.
Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse
Awoo@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Forums have existed on the internet forever @sunaurus@lemm.ee and you’re overlooking the fact that forums have already dealt with this thousands of times.
Simply limit image uploads to a certain account age threshold and karma threshold and you will eliminate 99% of the ability to abuse this.
iByteABit@lemm.ee 9 months ago
thangcuoi@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Also, maybe some kind of autohide/minimise posts that have been down voted to a certain threshold.
Let users contribute to a central database similar to Sponsoblock. Posts flag by a Power/Trusted users would be immediately hidden pending review.
AbsolutelyNotABot@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The main difference is that forums aren’t federated. On Lemmy you not only need to keep in check internal users, but also external instances, and as everyone can host one, federation ads extra complexity
Awoo@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Not really. We’ve had forums that literally allow you to post to them without even signing up with an account. Without being a “user” at all. This isn’t about “checking” anyone, it’s simply about limiting its ability to be used as a troll tool below the point at which it becomes too tedious to bother. At that point you have eliminated 99% of it.
This CSAM poster is 1 single person among hundreds of thousands. Making it too tedious to perform eliminates them along with the problem entirely.