Please don't look for posts from /u/hardtimes without a severe CW for scat and who knows what else at this point.
I think it's worth considering what kind of damage trolls, wreckers, and edgelords in general can do with such images in the future. @Frank@hexbear.net may have been right in that struggle session today; such open image posting may be a mistake.
Any account could also do this with posts too though.
I continue to not think it's an issue, just ban them. Perhaps as a precautionary measure comments could be collapsed if reported.
The site should categorically not overreact to attackers like this or it will see other forms of attack aiming to get the site to become more and more isolated/changed from the traditional Lemmy.
EDIT: Simple solution is the same solution that worked for forums for decades before reddit took over. Require new accounts to reach a certain post count first before getting image posting, and rate limit their posting.
it's not a reaction if i never wanted inline images in comments and thought they were bad before any wrecking attempts
slack let's you collapse them by default, I think such a user setting would be appropriate for lemmy comments.
a barely acceptable compromise if and only if they start collapsed by default
undefined> The site should categorically not overreact to attackers like this or it will see other forms of attack aiming to get the site to become more and more isolated/changed from the traditional Lemmy.
this goes for so much stuff lol, namely:
I don't want to have nightmares for weeks because I opened a post with a shock image before the mods could get it, thank you very much.
There is absolutely nothing stopping that from happening with posts, and was nothing stopping it happening previously with posts for 3 years. Nothing about posts has changed?
At the very least, we should require this along with a threshold of points mentioned in other posts. Images should also be locked to a certain size and at the very least an option to auto-hide them should be added.
I agree with sizelocking. Set a maximum width using css and they'll get resized to it without proportions being busted.
The main problem in my opinion is that the gifs were getting turned into full post-width videos that I think everyone will agree was absurdly large. The rest seemed fine. But now that people have been annoyed by the post-width videos this troll has decided to be disgusting in order to get their way. It's almost certainly an existing member that wants the feature removed rather than any external attacker and they can fuck right off with that behaviour imo.
This is large dprk soldier discrimination
A garduated poster's license.
Yeah, I'm siding towards this being an overreaction although I don't care enough either way. People can already abuse their avatar and banner. Like, nothing stopped people from posting scat in old Hexbear.
Are you unfamiliar with shock images as a means of attack? There's some truly horrific stuff out there that I'm trying not to picture in my mind while writing this but that's not working very well so I'm leaving this thread.
And my point is that those shock images can be someone's avatar and banner or even just some post. Nothing's stopping someone from posting snuff in /c/videos.
sure, but the images in posts are collapsed by default and you don't get slammed with them as you're browsing comments... besides, they're much smaller>>
You have a good point with the posts already being vulnerable to this, the only difference though is comments are 1) much more numerous and 2) much more likely for a mod to not notice. The nature of the problem is the same as we had before, but the commenting issue is just a much more severe and difficult to deal with version of it.
Furthermore you get a notification if someone comments on your post or replies.