There appears to be a serious problem with suspicious or spam accounts. Below are a few examples from just the last few weeks. This isn't specific to just GoneWild, but to all of the NSFW communities:
Example #1: Issue with people posting pictures of people who are not themselves, or pictures of people without their consent.
- Yesterday I noticed a picture that I had already seen posted multiple times. I looked at the user's post and noticed that it was their only post. This was weird since I 100% had seen that picture posted already. I posted a comment asking OP about this and multiple people responded saying that they also noticed this. Then the post was deleted/removed.
- One user told me that the user who had uploaded this pic before messaged him claiming that “my wife loves your dick” (supposedly the lady in the photo) and that they could message her on Telegram. Clearly this was suspicious and clearly the OP had not obtained consent from the woman in the photo.
Example #2: OnlyFans Bait
- By OnlyFans bait, I mean posts that are clearly designed to drive traffic to a user's only fans. I will not post the username to avoid calling anyone out, however there is one user that posts pictures with a watermark on every single picture that says something like "USING FREE VERSION OF THIS IMAGE SOFTWARE GENERATES THIS WATERMARK." My suspicion was that this was done intentionally to drive traffic to their OnlyFans page (in their profile there is a link to their OF page.) I suspect that this is designed to have people subscribe to their OnlyFans page in order to see pictures without the watermark. I asked OP why she uses this software with a watermark, vs. any others that don't have this, and the post was deleted shortly after.
Example #3: Posts saying "first time poster" when they're not.
- Similar to #1, people often post pictures with titles like "first time poster, tell me what you think" when I have clearly seen the image posted like 8 times under different accounts. Whenever this is called out, the post is usually deleted.
Example #4: Sympathy-bait titles
- By sympathy-bait titles, I mean titles purposely designed to generate "sympathy and compliments" from users. For example, many times there will be a beautiful fit woman who posts a picture and the title is something like "my boyfriend said I looked fat. What does Lemmy think?" I think these types of titles are clearly fake and unhelpful. I don't think titles should be allowed like this and just contributes to the overall sketchy issues that these communities are facing.
Example #5: Posts without gender tags.
- This one is self explanatory. I see it all the time though. Sometimes I see a mod tell the OP to add a tag, sometimes I don't. It really depends on the community. This rule should definitely be enforced more consistently.
Just curious if anything can or will be done to combat this type of bullcrap? It's turning a lot of these communities into straight up spam. Is there any sort of verification system that can be used? I hate to use the R word (Reddit), but Reddit requires verification for NSFW subreddits I am pretty sure. Can something similar be done here? Posting nude pictures of people without consent is a serious issue and it's asking for trouble if law enforcement gets involved. I have to assume that no one wants this to happen.
I hope this was acceptable to post here as I support the purpose of these communities and I don't want to see them turn into a cesspool of sketchy posts and onlyfans bait.
Edit: sorry if this came off as bashing mods. I didn't mean for it to be like that. Just wanted to make that clear. I highly doubt moderating a Lemmy community is easy, given the limited tools available.
I understand the sentiment, but frankly the mods and community as a whole do a very good job of policing to ensure shady things are removed. Please understand that there's been a larger number of new users than usual because Reddit has been up to shenanigans recently. There will always be growing pains.
#1: Without forced verification, which isn't even a thing except in the largest subs on Reddit, you aren't going to be able to fully combat people catfishing. Standard internet safety rules are always going to be necessary no matter what rules are in place and mods do a good job of responding to reported posts.
#2: That's not Onlyfans bait. Literally almost 80-90% of OC posters are advertising the links to their sites in their profile. The very act of posting is hoping to drive traffic to their paid content. Don't be naive and please don't shame someone for their choice of using a free image editor over a paid one, especially when their images are very high quality(although I do agree that their posting habits do classify them as a spammer)
#3: Generally when you see the "first time posting" message, what they mean is that it's their first time posting in a community and not on the instance. Remember that a lot of new content posters who are advertising don't take the time to understand that this place is smaller than Reddit and we see every post regardless of where it's posted because there's less noise. It's not malicious.
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