personally, I think this is a reasonable crashout... Dude has a point. ​:blob_hai:​Screenshot: everyone Member we need to have a serious talk. Some of you members are saying [that] you like Petra and Maili and younger characters and then say "You're 14, 13". That's still not ok. No one wants to hear your weird jokes about how you would fuck Petra or take her as your wife and for all I know half [of] y'all could be 36 and lying about your age to get away with it. This is enough! Stop!Some of you might be joking, but [the] others, [I] don't really know, and some don't even know your age and will call you pedophiles.@animemes@ani.social

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[–] 19 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

This person needs to learn about punctuation and grammar.

I don't know if I agree with the "we don't know so we are just going to call everyone pedophiles" sentiment. I understand they need to be careful to comply with the law, but that could also easily backfire as if it is false it could be considered slander (possibly libel depending on the specific legal definition).

I don't really know much about this particular situation, but I think if I was the admin of the server here I would caution the mods against just blanket labelling people, especially when they aren't certain of it. If the server is 18+, then anyone saying they are below 18 should just be permabanned, joke or not. Otherwise just says in the rules "No sexual jokes/comments about characters under 18," and ban anyone that breaks the rule. Pretty easy solution to whatever is happening here, I think.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Slander is spoken, and libel is written, so this would be libel if it is either. "There's libel in the library."

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  • Well I wrote it that way because the applicable laws may be different depending on where in the world that server pirmarily operates in.

    Due to the nature of Discord, messages posted on it could be considered permanent or temporary, and libel almost exclusively applies to permanent writing such as a blog post or news article in the USA (but may be different in other places).

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Well, I see your problem here.

    You're on Discord.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    @SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works @animemes@ani.social pretty sure admin is just trying to make much ado about nothing here. that's what most Discord servers are about nowadays

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Discord is a platform notorious for child predators. It's a genuine problem on it.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    @shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works @animemes@ani.social i saw your comment, and wondered "how bad is the situation actually"? I didn't know how bad it was. I'm so sorry you had to see this in the memes today. I apologise for my lack of sensitivity on the situation.You've just alerted me about the predator problem on Discord, which is so massive, I think I might consider leaving the platform now... or at least, stop checking as often as I used to...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    It's alright. Most people aren't aware of just how bad it is. I'm only really aware because I've spent time moderating servers, and while I was never exposed to anything myself, I know people who have been. I still use the platform since my friend group is on it, but hopefully we'll eventually find a different one that meets our requirements.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    All platforms are notorious for that. Moderation is expensive, and consistent free user moderation is extremely hit or miss, mostly miss.

    Unless you have enough admins dedicated to moderating every community regularly, like weekly at a bare minimum, shit will get out of hand in the places they don't visit.

    For places the size of Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube, etc. that's just not feasible without an army of paid moderators. User submitted reports are only useful if the users aren't partaking, and that's the first tier of nearly every online moderation system because few companies could even consider staffing a moderation team even remotely large enough to begin to tackle that problem.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago

    @animemes@ani.social looking back now, maybe I hadn't thought this one through before posting. Now I think I've started a war in the comments ​:BlobCat_Yilkes:​just to be clear, yes, I posted this to the memes sub because I thought it was funny that the admin crashed out.but thinking it through, this is actually a serious case. I wasn't aware of how bad the predator problem on Discord was. Children younger than 13 are joining the platform and are getting exposed to all sorts of things nowadays. i apologise to anyone for my lack of sensitivity of the severity of the situation, and for posting this as a meme.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have no idea who these characters are, nor the poster

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This isn't a “crashout.”
    I believe you gooners have crossed a line.
    Who asked you to publicize your sexual deviancy to a chat I have no idea it's context?
    I’m aware you gen z have no filter, but seriously, y’all really say publicly who you want to fuck, even to your mothers?

    Pretty certain this screenshot is offtopic. And not a meme at all.

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  • Right? Was a time when that shit was kept to yourself. Unless you were in a thread or post or community that was about that. You weren't on some random anime board talking about how you wanted to be balls deep in some character.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)