Nicole [LOCKED]

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Due to recent developments, we've had to lock down this community until further notice. For more information, please take a look at this post: https://feddit.org/post/10515288

Thank you for your understanding.

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This community will be locked down until further notice (feddit.org)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by FQQD@feddit.org to c/nicole@feddit.org

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What happened?

Due to the recent developments, I have decided to make this community moderator-only. There has been a mass spam attack involving gore and nudity. This is now a very serious situation and it is clear that something has to be done to stop this from happening. The new messages might be from a different, psychopathic spammer.

What we decided to do about it

To have better control of this situation, we decided to lock down the community, except for the comment section on this very post. (Please let me know if I've missed a post)

Rules

Please refrain to further spread the newest spam image, especially uncensored versions of it.
The "It's my girlfriend!"-joke is long gone. Be respectful, stop using it.

Going forward

Our main goal now is to stop the spread of spam on Lemmy. This seems like a major problem in Lemmy's concept, so we need to work together to create a working solution to the spam and potential defacing of users.

Update: The source of the gore images has been identified, so it's safe to say it's not actually the same person as "Nicole". Still fucked up, though.

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[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

There has to be a solution. Love it or hate it, DMs, I feel, are a necessary for social networking apps. I don't want to have to download another app if I want to send a direct message to someone on here.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's a good reason why it's difficult to implement but I'm surprised there's no rate limiter on DMs.

[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

I haven't checked to see if Lemmy has equivalents to subs like random acts of pizza, but it might interfere with helpful bots? Just a guess though.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 points 4 days ago

And moderation purposes