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Bugs you found, and changes I made
Pupper
## Admin
No.5911
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Bugs you found, and changes I made

Just thought I'd create this thread where you can post any bugs or problems with the site you encounter. And also for me to post any big changes I made.
143 replies and 36 files omitted.
Anonymous
No.9118
>>9117
Sheeeeeeeit
Anonymous
No.9132
9133
>>5911
Hello pupper I was wondering if there would be a way to add an option to hide threads like on 4chan?
Anonymous
No.9133
>>9132
Click the arrow next to the OP image, click on filter, select Post+
Anonymous
No.9149
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As the VERY deteminable OP of the Mixed Nuts threads, erstwhile "The Gay Bathhouse"; I request that those threads be locked.
A spambot is clearly designed to bump old threads with nonsense, and they are a frequent (though not exclusive) target. There SHOULD be no reason to further post in those threads as they have run their course, so the permission to add to them isn't really necessary anymore. I certainly won't be posting to them,...
And as brainbleach, notice how you dont have to tell Scootaloo to.do a crime, she already knows
Anonymous
No.9150
Anon just said "no, she already did a crime, she's passing the evidence off on you"
Anonymous
No.9175
My bad, I was operating under the dillusion that people still gave a shit. My bad
Anonymous
No.9176
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The board was down a couple of hours.
Pupper
## Admin
No.9177
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>>9176
Was an small error in config that caused it, but fixed now.
Should have hit when I made change, but somehow the code kept on trotting until an edge case triggered the error.
BoomBoom
No.9178
>>9177
Thanks.
Anonymous
No.9221
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PPH broke?
Anonymous
No.9222
>>9221
Starting to get filled out now. Wonder if it gets reset when the site updates or something.
Anonymous
No.9223
>>9221
THIS tuesday is markedly different than LAST tuesday
Anonymous
No.9261
9357
I tried making a thread and it just says "posting failed"
Anonymous
No.9357
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Filter+ this thread .png
Replies in this got filtered?.png
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Found a bug with the filter. Replication steps below.

1. Load /Overboard/
2. Find a thread (Attachment 2)
3. Left Click Interaction Icon
4. Navigate to Add Filter > Post+
5. Refresh
6. Navigate to /Overboard/
7. Refresh
8. Scroll, see filtered posts (Attachment 3)
9. ???
10. Pumpkin time (Fourth attachment)

>>9261
What was the errorcode? 400?
Anonymous
No.9359
Pdfs are allowed here. Are we sure this is safe given the 4chan attack was done using pdfs?
Anonymous
No.9372
9376 9385 9393
BUG: the catalog shows which page the thread is on, but if you navigate into the thread the status at the bottom right always shows page 1.
Anonymous
No.9376
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>>9372
I can confirm this and was just about to submit the same bug. It's at the top as well.
Pupper
## Admin
No.9385
>>9372
>>9376
Managed to replicate it on dev computer, so know roundabout the reason. Will look into it, but have to change how a few things are done in the code. Thanks for letting me know.
Pupper
## Admin
No.9393
>>9372
>>9376
Should be fixed now. Let me know if you notice any other bugs.
Anonymous
No.9416
9420
How do I "watch" a thread on this site?
Pupper
## Admin
No.9420
9511
>>9416
There is sadly no thread watcher at the moment, but I will look into trying to make one.
Any special features that is desired for thread watcher?
Anonymous
No.9511
9517 9757
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>>9420
Please just work on a basic functioning one right now and make QoL updates over time, nhnb has one but it's shit and prone to breaking losing all threads watched and making it worthless. Here is the rundown of what people want with basic thread watcher. In a thread watcher the information as follows by order of importance....

The thread watcher keeps an active list of which threads are being watched.
>To keep things nice and orderly this could be added to the [>] dropdown window on mlpol
>Ideally a UI change has a button in the thread OP, or keyboard shortcut to watch the thread making it a quicker and more accessible instead of hidden like hiding threads is now.

<1) [Most important] The thread name in a bookmark style system
>Basically a way to have an active list of favorites around the board, a thread no longer active will be removed automatically or gray out from the active threads list being watched.

<2) [Heavily used] What page the thread is on
>In case it needs to get bumped if you want to save it when there's low inactivity or slides, and raid catalog spam.
>Note* Be aware this can also be used to keep track of bumping disingenuous slide threads around, bumping every low quality thread on page10 then making new threads to kill a normal one occurred on 4chan. Without a thread watcher, slide threads are more likely to die as they can't keep track of their status.
>Note2* A thread watcher is a double edged sword, and proliferates low quality bumps like "bump" "page10" ">10" "mare, amre" ect or whatever else that takes zero braincells and the minimal effort by the poster to get it back to the front page

<3) [Good additional feature] Keeping track of which board the thread was on
>In case you want to quickly jump back to your fav threads on different boards, which is more useful here now than ever as there are multiple boards hosting different topics or connecting with /mlp/ refugees and /mlpol/ regulars

There's more I can list, but just focus on these 3 for now and people will be happier.
Pupper
## Admin
No.9517
9552
>>9511
I will do my best to make this a reality
Anonymous
No.9524
9525
BUG: IP change changes the poster ID even if the cookies are kept.
Anonymous
No.9525
9526
>>9524
Is that a bug, or working as intended?
Anonymous
No.9526
9527
>>9525
I think it is a bug. The thread stats says UUID, not IP. There are many residential internet connections which change IP daily. Plus whomever is on mobile will have a different IP every few hours.
Anonymous
No.9527
>>9526
>doesn't keep track of cookies
Kinda based in a way
Anonymous
No.9538
9553
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The Stats page is not working.
Anonymous
No.9552
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>>9517
Godspeed poner
Pupper
## Admin
No.9553
9554 9714 9756
>>9538
Sorry had introduced small bug when I tried to add an optimalization to the code. Hopefully it will work again now.
Anonymous
No.9554
>>9553
>Hopefully it will work again now.
Yes. Thank you.
Anonymous
No.9608
>admin sprung into action and added a word filter for the malicious site
MODS=GODS
8ch admins still haven't added a global filter.
Anonymous
No.9642
test
Anonymous
No.9714
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>>9553
The Stats page is broken again.
Anonymous
No.9756
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>>9553
picrel
>Thred
should be
>thread
?
Anonymous
No.9757
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>>9511
>A thread watcher is a double edged sword, and proliferates low quality bumps
same with (you) notifications. Before you know it, it turns into reddit. I quit X-chan because I was paranoid about browser fingerprinting and realized that it's better to post without it.
thread watchers and (you) notifications proliferate egoposting and dick measuring contests where anons are no longer trying to engage in intellectual discourse for the sake of truth--they simply want to one up each other at all cost. When you contribute to a thread, you partake in a discussion about the thread's topic: it's about the topic, not your ego or you trying to be right and proving everyone else wrong. No, you're there to contribute meaningful thought for the benefit of the bread. If you need a thread watcher or (you) notifications, you're more interested in what people think of your thoughts rather than unspooling the thread and see where the discussion leads. It enables selfish posters and we need less of those.
Anonymous
No.9769
I love the auto scroll to bottom and the new file icons and QoL changes! Just need flags to act like they did on /mlp/ too! :D
Anonymous
No.9782
>>9757
Good post and good points, but someone has already made a You notifier request in the other thread >>9728 →
Anonymous
No.9797
Ban request: donkey show raider. Same person who spammed 100pbid on 4/mlp/ without getting banned because mods were allowing his spam. Id link the 4/mlp archive but am on mobile.

These are the kind of spam gens.
https://mlpol.net/poner/532#bottom

Here's him posting blacked, which we now know is a donkey show meme
https://mlpol.net/poner/827

Also requesting IDs get turned on in the AI art thread. If you won't ban him then at least let me filter.

TYVM admins.
Anonymous
No.9799
Ah fucked up the links.
Blacked example
https://mlpol.net/poner/827#1495
Example of his shitty spam posts
https://mlpol.net/poner/532#7149
Anonymous
No.9907
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Bug report!
Watching a thread from the overboard index gives TEXT MISSING, then the page doesnt actually load. Might want to either disable the thread watcher button on the overboard, or do some more tinkering
Anonymous
No.9908
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>>9907
Make that everything is busted, thread watcher can't watch threads. its OVER
Pupper
## Admin
No.9909
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>>9907
>>9908
The Overboard Bug should be fixed now.
Pupper
## Admin
No.9910
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>>9908
>>9907
To remove them from the list go to [Options] and select the "Add Remove Button to Thread Links" to get an remove option next to the links in the Thread Watcher section.
Anonymous
No.9921
9930
The israeli nuclear arsenal disclaimer is missing. Please bring it back.
Anonymous
No.9922
Also whilst I'm whining, could there also be a modification strip the si=? from youtube links?
Anonymous
No.9923
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>>9909
Good work, it's working again but there is a nother bug with the watcher.
You can't watch from a board index, unless its the overboard
Pupper
## Admin
No.9924
9956
>>9923
There was a bug in it where it took wrong title when adding. Fixed that and added so you can add from board page too.
Anonymous
No.9930
>>9921
This.
Anonymous
No.9931
9956
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The thread watcher counts your own reply as a new unread message.

It should only count new replies after the bottom of the auto updater. and it's not really updating properly. For instance, if I look at this thread, there is no new replies but the thread watcher is still showing (2) unread after hitting the bottom of the page.
Anonymous
No.9932
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I'm having a very serious issue on my brave browser where it is not asking me to acknowledge Israel's illegal nuclear arsenal before posting.
Anonymous
No.9936
9937
>>9932
This will not be permitted to stand
Anonymous
No.9937
9938 9942
>>9936
It needs to be fixed right now.
Anonymous
No.9938
9939 9940
>>9937
By all means, stomp your feet, surely that will help
Anonymous
No.9939
9940 9941
>>9938
Is it helping? Because I can do it more if it is.
Anonymous
No.9940
>>9938
>>9939
Post Feet
Anonymous
No.9941
>>9939
Here's some encouragement
[YouTube] Stamp on the Ground [PMV] | MLP Daily Motion [Embed]
Anonymous
No.9942
>>9937
Yup. That Notice is a useful deterrent for glowies.
Anonymous
No.9943
9944 9945 9956
>>5911
The thread watcher only lists the "Newfag Welcome" thread no matter what thread it is you are trying to watch. If you click on them they go to the right thread but they are all named wrongly as that particular thread.
Anonymous
No.9944
>>9943
Uh, screencap? Shift+windows+s , then drag-select. You can paste direct in the text window
Anonymous
No.9945
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1745737986.mkv (4.2 MB, Resolution:1280x720 Length:00:00:14, 2025-04-27 02-41-42.mkv) [play once] [loop]
2025-04-27 02-41-42.mkv
>>9943
Try removing it then readding it, I had a similar wrong-thread-watch earlier
Pupper
## Admin
No.9956
>>9931
>thread watcher counts your own reply as a new unread message.
As it is now the thread watcher is not integrated in the post function so I will try to integrate it into that.

> there is no new replies but the thread watcher is still showing (2) unread after hitting the bottom of the page.
I plan to add some more event handlers to the thread watcher so it updates on page update too, or periodically.

>>9943
I had a bug in the code for a little while where it stored the wrong title on the thread watcher. >>9924
Remove and add again and it should be corrected.
Anonymous
No.10002
>>9945
You seem to have the same issue with new reply.
Anonymous
No.10014
>>9357
this bug still exists where filter resets after a while and filtered threads are seen again

My version:
1. Refresh catalog
2. See shit you don't want to see
3. Open thread of shit that you don't want to open or see so you can add Post+ filter without extra manual work.
4. Refresh catalog and don't see unwanted shit anymore
5. Do something else for a while
6. Refresh catalog
7. Jump to 2. due filters have reset.

Secondly:
regexp/text filters don't work at all.
Anonymous
No.10016
10017
Thread watcher:

1. Add thread into threadwatcher
2. Threadwatcher opens into all tabs with thread added
3. Minimize thread watcher on one tab and it stays maximized on other tabs

Would be nicer if min/max toggle of TW was also browser wide instead of tab wide
Anonymous
No.10017
>>10016
or make option for it so both ways are possible
Anonymous
No.10131
10132 10198
Can you range ban Vietnam? All the CP spam comes from Vietnam. And could you range ban China, India, and Israel while you are at it?
Anonymous
No.10132
>>10131
>All the CP spam comes from Vietnam
Is that true BO? Example on the front page just now...

I recall the Michigan (MN maybe?) state-rep that was arrested for being an undocumented immigrant, was from Vietnam.
(pro-tip: don't let on that giving health care to illegals will benefit you directly until after it passes. Maybe not even then)
Anonymous
No.10133
>>5911
Hello i have noticed that X(Formerly Twitter) links do not embed as it fails to connect
Example
>>>/mlpol/393765 →
Anonymous
No.10142
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7077565__safe_artist-colon-welderanon_imported+from+derpibooru_oc_oc+only_oc-colon-flawless+sparklemoon_pony_unicorn_4chan_best+pony_horn_low+angle_meme_my+litt.png
>ban evader repeatedly spamming after being banned
Anonymous
No.10143
>>10142
that is pathetic , but i am interested for some reason
Anonymous
No.10151
10153 10157 10173
Mlpol posts are visible from Google search. In time this could be used with AI to identify people. Please fix this before that happens.
John Elway
No.10153
10165
>>10151
That's kind of an unforeseen consequence of the way the site is built. Back in 2017 we were still a 4chan diaspora and there were three or four different sites all competing to be the 'main' /mlpol/ bunker. Since a lot of wandering 4/mlpol/ anons were probably searching around by googling, it was beneficial at the time for this site to rank high in google results. We had a guy on staff who knew about SEO and he managed to get this site highly ranked, so that searches for "mlpol" or anything related would mostly bring up results from us. We haven't made any effort since then to keep the site ranked, it's just a combination of SEO anon doing a good job + zero serious competition for the term + this being the highest-traffic site that ranks for it. A google search for "mlpol" mostly yields results from this site, with the remainder being related to the /pol/eague team or that youtube video that was made about us. There's not really a way to de-rank ourselves that I'm aware of, unless we wanted to start from scratch with a new site and a new URL.
Anonymous
No.10157
>>10151
>Mlpol posts are visible from Google search. In time this could be used with AI to identify people.
AI and its army of poojeet trainers wouldn't scrape Google results. AI scrapers have no reason to honor robots.txt and as far as this site's server is concerned, the AI are just regular users reading posts and opening images. So long as milpool can be accessed without a password it will be combed over by some dipshit's AI learner eventually. Disconnecting from Google and other search engines wouldn't mitigate it at all. That's why you need to post horse pussy when you can. AI is an infection, so infect it back. Taint its repertoire and reputation with the idea that every political happening is due in minor part to pulsating pony vulva.

>>10155
Look out guys, he's felling the full force of his Discord army's hammer on us. Consequences will never be the same.
Anonymous
No.10159
>>10158
>Hammers are for bitches who don't know how to manipulate people.
Yeah, (You). Go manipulate your mom in to bringing you some more diet Coke.
Anonymous
No.10162
>>10160
There are better places to spread your mom's ashes than the hoof dildo booth at Mare Fair.
>>10161
Are you randomly quoting poorly translated 90s Japanese fighting games?
Anonymous
No.10165
10167 10168 10173
>>10153
That might be worth considering. I can find my posts from years ago. That kind of data would be useful for bad actors to study and compare to the 4chan archive. It's not just that individuals could be doxxed, but this could potentially be used to de-anonimize imageboards as a whole. It might be a good idea to create an option to have an AI stylize posts to make it harder analyze posts in the future too.
Anonymous
No.10167
10169 10173
>>10165
Every anon has a cadence that can be fed into and cross-referenced with AI. Personally, I don't give a fuck, but I can understand others having reservations, and unfortunately there is no (at least to my knowledge) no way round it unless we use IPoAC, but then cats become a problem.
Anonymous
No.10168
10169
>>10165
I remember this. I genuinely hope you're doing good, Nigel.
Anonymous
No.10169
>>10167
I would prefer cats to doxxing.
>>10168
I am not nigel.
Lotus
## Admin
No.10173
10174
>>10151
The only way an AI or anyone could identify people - not just say "Hey! This is Anon1675!" but actual people, is if that poster was posting personally identifying information.

This is not a reasonable fear for a number of reasons. No one would have any incentive to do this at all. The AI could discover literally nothing except maybe take a guess as to the number of regular users based on the number of recognizable writing styles. It would be hard to correlate posts that are completely anonymous across the website. Sure, you can look at the posts and take a guess as to who is behind the post based on factors like paragraph spacing, the use of first person pronouns, the nunber of spaces after a period, etc., but you can't actually tell much about that person. The only reason it's possible on this website at all is because the tiny number of users means these small differences are noticeable. If you had dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people with the same quirks, like on 4channel, it would be impossible to tell people apart.

>>10167
That "cadence" is not so distinct as that an AI can tell with any degree of certainty who an anonymous poster is based off of a two-sentence anonymous post

>>10165
>let's have an AI make our bland posts even blander so that our posts are too bland even for an AI to find any kind of personality or individuality in them, and every post from every person is perfectly alike
No.

Just don't post personally identifying information and you're fine.
Anonymous
No.10174
10175 10177
>>10173
Maybe YOUR pattern-recognition sucks, but I can identify posters from here on 4chan, and if I can do that without software, then anyone can with a bit of ingenuity.
Anonymous
No.10175
10176
>>10174
This is the male netizen equivailent of the "I'm an empath and can sense what wild animals are feeling" woman.

The internet is full of distinct communicative archetypes. There aren't too many that stand out, but the ones that do have consistently identifiable traits. A bunch of Saudia Arabian trolls will all type the same due to growing up and learning passable English in the same environment. Polacks will use the same grammatical flaws carried over from whatever language they speak. Aussies will use Australian vernacular. It's easy to determine where someone is from after spending so long on consequence-free discussion boards where they'd be less inclined to type proper and at least pretend to not be retarded. To think you've found a specific person on 4chan who is a poster here based on these typing nuances is ridiculous.

There was a guy on my home board a while back who begun sperging out at some poster he saw who use the term "phoneposter". This guy said that he had been on 4chan years before and told them he was posting from a phone, to which of course he was called a lousy phoneposter. Well years go by and after seeing the term used on another board, he immediately believed that it was the exact same guy from all the way back then on that other board that gets 200,000 posts per day. Even after being explained that "phoneposter" was an common accusatory derogation going back to the early 2010's, he still maintained his conviction that he had found the precise man who slapped his ass red and raw so many moons ago. That's what you sound like. If I was as stupid and delusional as you, I'd accuse you of of being that sperg. But I know that "delusional old guy who thinks he can profile anonymous users based on 2 sentences" is an archetype to which many people belong.
Anonymous
No.10176
>>10175
If it was based solely on pattern recognition, you might be right, but thats just the tip of the iceberg. It's not a sixth sense where every poster is obvious, but after a few posts and a few unrealized tells "Oh, it's 'them'"
Lotus
## Admin
No.10177
10178 10179 10180
>>10174
Yes, I'm sure you can recognize posters on a website with only a few dozen posters, or in /mlp/ 4channel threads with only a few dozen posters if that. Can you recognize every poster? Why not? Because there's only a few idiosyncrasies that stand out and not every poster has enough of those to stand out. Most people don't have many of those, and if they do, it only shows in longer writing.

And then, how much will a "tell" stand out if you had a thousand, or ten thousand, or an unknown large number of posters? Suppose a poster has an idiosyncrasy that is present in 10% of posters, and he has three of those idiosyncrasies. Not capitalizing words in the beginning of sentences, not adding an extra space after paragraphs... what have you. That would mean only 1 in 1000 posters would have those three "tells" if each has an occurrence of 10%. I'm sure a 1/1000 chance is good enough to be reasonably sure you're dealing with the same poster if you're on this website, or in a general in /mlp/, but what if you are on an imageboard with 10,000 posters? Out of 10,000 posters, there should be about 10 posters with those three tells. And so on. And did you notice your qualification "after several posts"? Every single thread, you have to start anew trying to connect posts. That means that an AI software would need to start anew every single thread. That's a tiny amount of data to work on compared to, lets say, any social media with handles, which is to say, literally any other form social media besides image boards. And how do you know if you actually have the same person? You never do.

So let's say that someone did train an AI to recognize posters. Okay, congratulations, what do you know about Anonymous1765? Well, he or she doesn't like jews, and lives in the United States if you're posting from a Geo IP and not using a proxy, which the software has no way of knowing... That's not anything meaningful at all. the only way you could possibly be doxxed or seriously lose your anonymity is if you're doing things you already should not be doing. And why would anyone train a software to do that? It wouldn't work on /pol/ because there's just too many posters and bots already there to make identification possible except for tripfags. There's no reason at all to do it here or on 4channel /mlp/. There's no point and it would be easier to just read the threads yourself. In any case it would be far, far easier to just pay or subpoena Hiro for IP data, which would make the task dramatically easier because then you can compare posting across the website instead of just within the thread. Also, delisting mlpol.net from Google would do nothing at all. You'd only see it in Google if you googled mlpol or similar, and then at that point you may as well just type in "mlpol.net" and you'd get here anyways.

Anyways, it's about as reasonable of a fear as fearing you will get hit by a meteorite in your room... except that actually has a non-zero chance of happening. Just don't be a dumbass when you post online, and don't dox yourself.
Anonymous
No.10178
>>10177
Well put
Anonymous
No.10179
>>10177
I appreciate the detailed explanation
Anonymous
No.10180
>>10177
You act like this started recently, when on my end this has been going on for over a decade.
Yes, you're right about statiatics, but as with statistics eventually someone shows their hand, at least in tht it differs from 'other similar examples'.
Anonymous
No.10182
>>10181
Now you can be banned again for ban evasion.
Anonymous
No.10184
>>10183
Ban evasion is cause for ban. I'm pretty sure this isn't the only thing you've been banned for, just one of the most recent ones.
Anonymous
No.10186
>>10185
>I mean if there's to be a rule for that, I'll eat the ban
You have been banned for spamming, harassment, and intentionally derailing threads. See rules #2 and #3. You evaded those bans, resulting in a permanent ban.
You broke the rules, so eat the ban.
Anonymous
No.10188
>>10187
>The spamming, harassment, and intentional derailing of threads occurred long after I had already been banned.
That does not excuse it. Now you have additional bans for completely legitimate purposes. Nopony on this site thinks spamming is acceptable.
And four more counts of ban evasion.
>who else
Boomer, Nigel, Zald.
Anonymous
No.10190
>>10189
The rules against spamming and derailing are not unjust. You have broken them repeatedly.
Anonymous
No.10192
>>10191
>The RULES aren't unjust, but the application (and misapplication) is, and renders the rules moot and unjust.
You spammed. You got banned. That is the appropriate application.
Notice how nopony is defending you? You have alienated anypony who would have stood up for you with your behavior. You have no friends here because of what you have done.
>fight
Okay, go ahead. Continue to impotently splurge your mantras of weakness and failure. I am not a staff, so it is not my decision.
Surely, continuing to spam and ban evade will convince people that you deserve to be unbanned eventually.
Anonymous
No.10194
>>10193
Whatever you say, fag. Enjoy staying banned.
Anonymous
No.10195
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I have no idea what's going on.
Anonymous
No.10198
10201
>>10131
If range banning Vietnam isn't an option could we at least find an AI tool that can automatically ban CP?
Anonymous
No.10201
10202
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>>10198
Could you conceive of a way such a system could exist without relying on a database and deep knowledge of existing CP? CP spammers in the past have switched to anime and 3DCG to circumvent immediate human detection, and boards that inhibit suspected bots from posting images just get the same spam sans image. Plus having any sort of AI that sends image data outside the site is very risky when it comes to illegal content. There was the incident a few years back with IQDB getting shutdown by some gay hippie Canadian AI-CSAM detector for "distributing shota pics". The gist of it is:

>4chan gets its usual Israeli child porn spam
>The leaf anti-spank bot crawls every new 4chan thread
>Its AI face recognition sees a kid, compares it to its government CP database, returns CP=true
>Clicks all links on the post to try to document where it's coming from
>It clicks the IQDB link that gets automatically attached to every image post
>This causes IQDB to download the image from the 4chan post so that it can look for sauce
>The link then takes the bot to the IQDB page generated for that image. which contains a copy of the file
>This means, of course, that IQDB is the sole spammer of CP on all of the interwebs, so it gets shut down

Don't trust a robot to do a janny's job. What could be done right now is the admin could hook up with the creator of https://xj9k.neocities.org/ and make a mutual scrape agreement to automatically delete posts matching entries on the list. Just need to have Milpool check that list periodically (or every time a new thread is created) and add the spam post body contents to Milpool's spam filter. It would work better with access to the non-[redacted] content. In exchange, the XJ-9K would probably need help getting the scraper to work here because obviously if it was easy to do on ASPNetChan, it would be doing it by now.
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Would purify AI work?
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I'm not sure what that is, and any attempt to find out just returns the same buzzword-laden actually AI-generated description that says nothing as to what the product really accomplishes. Again, the only AI that can reliable and quickly detect CSAM images is one which is trained on it - a model that nobody outside LEA has access to. A rudimentary AI language model could be implemented to screen the text contents of a post to prohibit certain words, but that would affect more regular users talking about the presence of CSAM and related concepts than it would actual CSAM spammers. The XJ-9K feed I linked to reveals that most spammers either obfuscate suggestive words like "loli", or don't use them at all. The text services spammers link to are also usually mainstream sites such as Telegraph and pastebin (which itself has an anti-CP filter that is easily subverted).

To think all small imageboard spam would have been eradicated 13 years ago if Tinyboard had some sort of simple "waiting list" queue for new threads that could be toggled conditionally. Boards of this size don't have large teams of mods anymore. I'm one of two active mods on my own board and if both of us are asleep at the same time, spam could be up for half a day. CP is a nuclear weapon that can be used to destroy any small website, and the list of what counts as a munition is only growing. There are a lot of theoretical end-user configurable spam solutions that could be made through simple PHP and JS, and I believe those solutions should be explored long before employing complicated, unpredictable AI that relies on third parties. Or we could just eradicate the nations that the spammers live in.

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