NSFW spam in /zzz/

I discovered recently on /zzz/ that there's an anonymous user who posts NSFW links that lead to Anonym File that we need to ban for good. This only happens on /zzz/, but not anywhere else on this imageboard. The user in question post the same NSFW image with different original filenames, mentioning things along the line of: n*e-w f*i-l*e-s *2-0/2/4 *p-r/e*w- (Anonym File links but it's a different tinyurl address) l. i. s. t. - o. f. - v. i. d. e. o. - f. i. l. e. s. (link) Either this is a NSFW content bot, or somebody trying to spam NSFW on /zzz/, but every time we report them they keep coming back. Could you please help get rid of this user for ever? Thanks

Are there people moderating /zzz/? If this is not the case I think there is no effective way to ban the person / the bot ya know u can always change IP/browser etc. How about some sort of spam filter? Or a captcha before posting ( that would stop the bot )

>>12275 >Are there people moderating /zzz/? Not sure if there are any people on board that do monitor /zzz/ at the moment. Anyways the spambot made two threads that involved CP/NSFW content recently and those threads were deleted, one by one. Most of these threads the bot posts involve CP or NSFW in some way, and I tried reporting them. Even through comments I wanted them reported in one of the threads but this took, let's say, around an hour or a half of one prior to deletion. >"no effective way to ban the person or bot" Well, there needs to be a way to scrub the bot off /zzz/. Does the bot changes their IP?

I forgot to add an image of those recent spam threads. It's good that now it fetches 404 errors. This spambot keeps breaching Rule #8: "Don't post child pornography or questionable 2D/3DCG/3DPG sexual depictions of children". This seems to be ignored, though.

>>12276 >Does the bot change their IP? I think it doesn't matter if the bot doesn't change it. I mean, you ban the IP of this one, and next week, another one can come with a different IP each hour. I think a solution should be based on the content of the post not the poster info. With a lack of moderation, some things we can consider: For text, some good spam filter should be present ( maybe an AI based one even tho I think it's kinda expensive to run ) For images, we can use some AI classifier. Captcha should be present.

>>12278 So you're thinking of Captcha or better moderation against these CP spambots on /zzz/? I like the latter very much. This reminds me of Tumblr being overrun with NSFW spambots and I wished they combated the issue in 2018 rather than NSFW not being allowed. However, how frequently do these CP spambots appear? If so, they frequently breaching Rule #8. Also, somebody at least mentioned it in the second Bug Report thread in /q/, so I helped guide them here.

>>12277 First, I deleted your image because it contained links. What were you even thinking sharing cp links? Second, >This seems to be ignored, though. We are handling these things as often as we can. I've been working with the filter to reduce this, etc. etc. The best way you can help make this happen faster is by reporting it because if someone is in IRC and not camping the recent posts, they can miss it.

>>12280 I was showing proof of the spambot posts prior to deletion but hidden under a spoiler so that people won't be affected. I was not sharing links prior in the screencap. This spambot posts CP links that redirect you to Anonym File. Each time they post, the thread's got a set of different tinyurl addresses that link to Anonym File. In short: I was showing proof, not sharing anything, bud.

>>12280 Also, how often do you take care of these CP spambots on lainchan? I've read on /hum/ that the CP spambot also posts the same thing on sushichan's /lounge/ board, Heyuri's /b/ board, 4-ch's /img/ board and Uboachan's /ot/. It also spams identical links on 4-ch's textboards and post office. This also happens on boards.guro.cx's /art/ and /req/ boards, 7chan and endchan.

>>12275 uboachan and sushichan added captcha for a while but they still get hit with CP.

>>12283 There was a lot of CP spam in 2015 (via /sugg/), back then when I used the imageboard manly for /ot/. Here's a good question for the mods. How often do you take care of these CP spambots on lainchan?

>>12284 What do you mean how often do we take care of the spam bots ? Are you looking for how often they post ? Or some sort of deletion and ban time metrics (what time frame we delete and ban them) ?

https://uboachan.net/ot/res/24758.html This thread on Uboachan is oddly amusing. Let's cut to the serious parts: "Who does it doesn't really matter. What matters the most is the fact that their posts are eventually being taken care of and deleted, meaning that someone is clearly keeping an eye on the board." "They're bots causing a targeted attack, which is happening to all imageboards." "Either someone is making money off the links (more likely), or someone has foul intentions for Uboachan or it's users." "The problem is we have no automated protection against posters like this." "Be it the feds or not, they're trying to get many shut down. They spam that CP everywhere... it could even be on some random obscure imageboard less than 10 people know of. They certainly use bots to crawl the internet looking for ones to spam using familiar software like vichan, jschan, lynxchan, etc only to manually spam." Found a link too here: https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/ This is a great imageboard spam tracker that can help sort out the problem. People had decided to keep track of this for some reason but we HOPE that this CP bot attack stops dead.

Found another link: https://allchans.org/ Most imageboards I found on the link come up with very little trace of the CP bot attacks as a whole. It's good that my antivirus had protected me against the links the bot posted, but this is getting hit hard right now and we should all unite the other altchans together and stop this menace. Taken from Uboachan's thread on the spam attacks: "If you use multiple altchans, you occasionally see the CP spam. It's quite the issue, really; it's all posted in the same way, the same style, across many altchans." The catch is, what imageboards and topics had we seen being attacked by the CP spambots? We can see the damage by whittling down to only-SFW imageboards. Please note that I'm also operating on /r/ in light of the recent auth blocks I want to shut down, but take care and good night.

>>12285 It's on both matters.

>>12281 >not sharing anything, bud You shared links and anyone interest would be able to get it. fuarrrk off. I don't care about whatever mental gymnastics you need to do. >>12282 We take care of it as often as we can.

>>12289 Regarding post rate: From moderation logs featuring board "zzz" and the action Deleted post. Please note that isn't all spam posts, there may be some other legitimate deleted zzz posts in there, however that number is normally 4 or less. +----------+---------+ | count(*) | month | +----------+---------+ | 4 | 2023-01 | | 3 | 2023-02 | | 9 | 2023-03 | | 4 | 2023-04 | | 3 | 2023-05 | | 3 | 2023-06 | | 2 | 2023-07 | | 10 | 2023-08 | | 5 | 2023-09 | | 17 | 2023-10 | | 30 | 2023-11 | | 22 | 2023-12 | | 38 | 2024-01 | | 10 | 2024-02 | +----------+---------+ From the same data set the highest post rate we have had in the last 2 years is 5 per day. Regarding response rate, as far as I know our response rate is best case within 3 minutes of being posted, worst case in the last 2 years is within 4 hours of being posted. I don't have data easily available regarding response rate in a single place and would have to spend days collating it to get partial data. >>12275 Yes /zzz/ is actively moderated. >>12278 Several spam filters already exist (using the existing filter infrastructure), and additional bespoke work is going into adding locality semantic hashing of both files and post text in order to better filter spam posts.

>>12290 I was actually trying to show you the differences of the Anonym File links as tinyurl addresses from post to post. I wasn't sharing them, and if you believe I was, it's on false claims. McAfee gives me a yellow warning page on all of the links this bot posts. >>12291 Try https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/ >"Several spam filters already exist (using the existing filter infrastructure), and additional bespoke work is going into adding locality semantic hashing of both files and post text in order to better filter spam posts." That's really great, keep up the good work! How often does the CP spambot attack on specific https://allchans.org/ boards? At least we need more information.

>>12297 I imagine the attack rate is similar across the board. They seem to hit different sites all at once, the best way is to ask on other boards which I haven't done yet. I'm Op from the This is War thread and I'm from Uboachan but hang out here occasionally. I'm going to start posting a thread about this on every imageboard I can to get people talking about it again. I don't have technical skill but if I can help motivate folks to network we might find a workable solution. I'll write a less rambly more concise general post for other sites too. I don't have a timeline on this, I'm busy with meatspace a lot these days if someone else wants to take initiative before I get to it please do! My post the other night was honestly out of pure frustration, I've been sick of this for months and don't want to give up on using altchans because of it. Star control 2 images will be my callsign. Semper Fi anons.

>>12297 >if you believe I was, it's on false claims It's not about believing or not, but it doesn't matter, I understand that you're just trying to help and I appreciate that. I've kept note of the links since they started posting. However, I'm not trying to share mitigation strategies because those would just be used against us and other boards dealing with this issue.

>>12298 >This is War thread >Uboachan's version of events starting with "Who keeps uploading CP to OT?" I used to be on Uboachan but the thread they made was by more of an 'angry' community (like 4chan is) but I found some positives such as the ones I stated in >>12286 They scraped together some answers despite the anger spilled all over the place. NSFW's very questionable and I'm the original creator of the Login/Auth blocks thread which, mainly speaking of, talks about reverting login/auth blocks, not just NSFW but also socials since they got out of hand recently. With gratitude I love that comment to the very end of the world, and I hope for the best. Fingers crossed! >>12299 Thanks. If you kept notes of the links, then how many come from the spambot that all seem to link to Anonym File?

There is another useful write-up of the spam problem at https://trashchan.xyz/meta/thread/374.html We're trying to figure out solutions for Uboachan/Sushichan, but reCAPTCHAs don't work so I've only been able to add more Janitors so far. Any other experiments are gonna need some custom code and will probably result in some kind of hassle for the user. This is happening everywhere and presents an existential crisis for the future of imageboards. One idea was to require a user to perform some special action periodically in order to give their browser a cookie which allows them to post. Like finding a word in the rules or filling out a form on another page. It would be annoying, but if we can find a can't-be-assed threshold where the solution is too annoying for the spammers but not for the dedicated users, we may be able to win.

>>12300 It's just been a ton of link shortners.

>>12302 Hey Seisatsu! This CP spambot existential crisis is a hassle and the links they post each time all seem to link to Anonym File. Maybe call them AnonymCP, or Orginziation CP? Been reading the thread you posted. >>12298 made a thread on /hum/ about it. They said to me that they will make thread about this issue on every imageboard they can to get people talking about it again. I have high hopes for them and you too.

https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp2/ This is what keeps on attacking /zzz/ and other boards.

>>12306 I hadn't tried following the links from my home browser for obvious reasons. If they all go to the same place, maybe having the server follow links to see what's behind them will let us block them from being posted. It must be a lot harder for the spammers to change actual hosting providers frequently than it is for them to change URL shorteners.

I can say that this bot has existed since 2015 or earlier, and it is still here. It is indeed very strange. I don't know who would sustain a campaign like this for so long, but it's quite unusual. Like others have pointed out, it hits every imageboard, they must be using google dorking to locate them. If anyone has a regex to defeat it, I'd love to know, but in my experience, when I would write a regex against it, they would adapt the pattern to be something new. I truly believe it must either be a) Someone who is making money off of it b) An intelligence agency working to catch pedophiles, or shut boards down c) A pedophile who's fetish is pointing those links. Also, I've found that the ASNs come from weird providers, one of them was named PonyNET or something similar to that. And a bunch of abuse reports against the ASN saying that they get e-mail spams and illegal content from that ASN.

https://boards.guro.cx/dis/res/12470.html Found another report on CP commercial spam, where hornynails said "there's another CP distributor here, or at least on /g/ and /s/ and they even have a "preview" picture there. I'd recommend taking it down as soon as possible." It's related to the 'cp2' bot but doesn't show up on xj9k's report list, only imageboards like uboachan, wapchan, lynxchan and this site. >>12310 One of the strangest things I've witnessed and I strongly agree on the advertising strat that this bot/human uses. What's an ASN?

The original poster had quit Uboachan but... https://uboachan.net/ot/res/24758.html Thank you so much for mentioning my thread on Uboachan Seis ♡ I kept seeing new reports of cp2 on XJ9K. but there was a gap in between 2.2.2024-recent. I kept checking other chans that were hit by cp2's posts and it recently hit lynxchan. However, I can't report it.

>>12366 I had globally reported the cp2 spam on lynxchan (name's based on how XJ9K handles the spammer in its URL blacklist). Also they change the image filename each time despite it being the same NSFW image; they used to be somewhat cropped. What's the hosting services cp2 use, if any? This is tough considering imageboards are switching from reCAPTCHAs to adding janitors. Lynxchan has code-based CAPTCHAs (and other ones as well). NSFW content is very questionable, and while we want to cut down on cp2's spam posts, I want blocks to shut down for proper NSFW content, not CP.

>>12366 >unmasking destinations You can do an unshortener just using curl + grep + sed, right? >$ curl --head --location https://s.lain.la/ldxBP | grep location | sed "s/.*.: //" Here's a quick example. You can probably have that run using php. Just make sure you use your sanitization and parameterization.

>>12310 >PonyNET That's from BuyVM https://buyvm.net/. They tend to disregard complaints since the customer is #1, but they do normally vice down on actual abuse. >>12327 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet) Basically identifier attached to owners of IP prefixes.

>>12368 I found the way to report it via lynxchan, click the eye icon and then hit report/global report button. Strangley enough, my antivirus says lynxchan is malicious...

The antivirus I use is McAfee but I'm thinking "is the cp2 spammer detected by robots.txt or antivirus?" We disallow robots.txt, but why would cp2 go unnoticed? Just taking ideas from Uboachan since I was browsing the WayBack Machine, yep I've changed a lot and putting ideas from beyond time.

I checked for new reports of cp2 on XJ9K and they changed the message body to "n e w - [redacted] - f i l e s - 2 0 2 4; p r e v i e w" alongside the link shortners: https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp2/ Note where I said [redacted], it's CP. I reported it on sushichan now, yes it's the same image cp2 use, different message body and URLs. Hopefully it'll get registered on XJ9K.

>>12372 McAfee said that the links are actually malicious threats. This is a good sign since cp2 is causing as much harm to chans like a cut that has never stopped bleeding since its wake.

>>12372 cp2's spam on Sushichan had been taken care of. Strangely enough, it's not present on XJ9K as of yet. Found another cp2 spam post; same image, different message body and URLs: https://sportschan.org/sp/res/1604814.html There's no report button on the site, and I said "GO AWAY CP2" in the reply box but all it came up with was "Error posting". This should be treated fast.

https://cuatrochan.org/b/ has two reports of CP spam, can't report due to a "password mismatch". Could anybody look into it?

https://awsumchan.org/ra/ Reported another one, third time lucky. I'm getting sick of them now.

A couple of quickies for you: - What is a regex or what does regex mean? - Have you tried reporting on Cuatrochan or Sportschan?

sportschan - /sp/ - 1604814 had been deleted and added to XJ9K, but not other spam posts by cp2 impacting sites like Sushichan. How should we clear the spam quicker if cp2 is going to flood imageboards with disturbing 'ads'?

>>12378 awsumchan hadn't made progress on removing the cp2 spam post, to which I responded with "GO TO HELL CP2" because I AM fuming with the spam, which is quite obivous.

I'm fuming with how these sites, awsumchan and cuatrochan aren't doing anything with the cp2 spam and I'm getting sick of it. I notified the boards that something MUST be done about cp2 immediately the moment they posted it.

>>12384 Spoilers/CW: just strong language against cp2 spam Cuatrochan is the only one that needs to act now. How fast is Cuatrochan's reporting system to ours?

Found another Uboachan thread: https://uboachan.net/sugg/res/4001.html Could this help, hi-tech guys?(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Do not spam or advertise unrelated content.)

>Your request looks automated; Post discarded. This happened when I was trying to post this /q/ thread on /hum/; why would a long list of text be considered spam when I know it's related if I'm reading the first few lines of it?

>>12385 Update: Cuatrochan and Awesumchan reported cp2 spam in a matter of around a couple of days after I alerted the mods to cp2 spam, because I was unable to report it with one of them being an incorrect password.

>>12387 ...huh. I was not advertising unrelated content when I know it's going to help with the cp2 problem (yes YN imageboard popped up a picture of the cp2 spam)(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Linking to links which link to CP on other boards is a Rule 7 violation. As much as you think your thread is helping, it isn't providing any improvement in mitigating the problem you are describing.)

>>12390 Actually, now that I think about it... does this count towards XJ9K's report list? A long wall of text?

>>12392 I don't believe it's a spambot. https://lainchan.org/hum/res/77637.html

>>12391 >As much as you think your thread is helping, it isn't providing any improvement in mitigating the problem you are describing This is to with reCATPCHA and nothing else god darn it!

>>1294 To mods, can you please at least consider that https://lainchan.org/hum/res/77637.html is not supposed to be marked as spam because they're trying to get a message across? https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp2/ is actual spam, same as the other spam attacking other imageboards, not a demographer.

Ok, why did you mods reject xj9k's reports of that 'TAKE ACTION v3' guy but allow only https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp2/? I am not a spammer of any kind, I'm trying to relay what was going on with that person when cp2 is attacking /zzz/ out of the blue.

Just saying that the last time cp2 spam was reported was on 2024-02-12, 08:20:51 and I hope they don't attack some imageboards again. Wayback Machine captured at least two different versions of cp2 spam on /zzz/'s frontpage, showing different shots of the same picture they uploaded amongst everything else. And if anyone asks, I was shocked to see in the homepage's 'recent posts' section (which is where I first found cp2 spam)

Oh great cp2 attacked after a single week. I lampooned their text on c - p - 2 - k i l l e r - 2 0 2 4. f o r c e d - to -d - e- s - t - r - o - y - c p 2 - s p a m. c o u n t d o w n - t o - r e a l - d e s t r u c t i o n . . . l i n k s https://lainchan.org/q/res/12273.html https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp2/ DESTROY CP2 SPAM - ACT NOW!!!! This is my calling card on the whole issue and is not spam, since couple of times I given the other imageboard mods the wide alert that it's still alive.

>>12409 Sorry, I meant to say I copied, pasted and edited the cp2 spam text on cuatrochan since I wanted mods on that board on high alert. Also Selectronic.

I'm looking for what time frame you mods delete and ban cp2 as of now, any answers?

>>12415 >12:45:50 This was the last one, but I delete them when I see them.

there's another thread up right now. I reported it, but it seems to be a recurring issue from everything I've read.

Uboachan's thread on the CP2 spam attacks had been updated again, if you guys want to read it. https://uboachan.net/ot/res/24758.html

https://lainchan.org/zzz/res/6839.html https://wapchan.org/cel/res/2539.html REPORTED

>>12431 I am so angry at CP2 spamming /zzz/ to the point I threatened them to die because it's killing imageboards. CP2 spam is literal cancer.

>>12431 Happened again; https://lainchan.org/zzz/res/6844.html

I reported them at least, but it's still present in /zzz/ and I threatened them to go to Hell.

A question to Appleman: On account of one of my threads being locked, how often do you report spam like cp2 and the mysterious demographer whose "post quality hasn't improved"? Checked /zzz/ again; no signs of cp2 lately.

Update: https://lainchan.org/r/res/40027.html According to xj9k, cp2 moved from /zzz/ to /r/ and it's finally gone from Lainchan forever. The only boards that cp2 attacks now are: https://4chon.me/lounge/ https://trashchan.xyz/comfy/ https://lynx.farted.net/lynx/ https://hikari3.ch/en/ https://uboachan.net/ot/ https://nhnb.org/fim/ https://lulz.net/furi/ https://wapchan.org/cel/ Also, a new thread on Uboachan just dropped... "I'm posting this again to get CP off the 'log. Get in and roll!" - https://uboachan.net/ot/res/25512.html That's where I learned CP2 moves at like a post every couple hours or so!

>>12481 Update: https://tvch.moe got affected on the /tv/ board now. https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp2/

>>12481 I was wrong, I hoped Lainchan got rid of cp2 now it moved back to /zzz/. Fear our wrath. https://lainchan.org/zzz/res/6893.html

>>12487 Also, XJ9K mentioned this thread in the CP2 report list: https://zzzchan.xyz/v/thread/237717.html#239980 This must be a mistake; CP2 spams the sites from the list I mentioned in post #12481, and doesn't reply to anything in particular. The thread in question was talking about gaming news eg. "Former Pokémon legal head Don McGowan thanks media for highlighting projects for the company to take down". Being an error, the anon in question is not supposed to be the hostile CP2, let alone a 'newbie'. CP2 is a spam user and shouldn't be here. Could anybody sort this issue out for me, please?

>>12489 I had now addressed the issue https://zzzchan.xyz/ and hopefully that report will get erased from the list. There's your update

>>12366 > an existential crisis for the future of imageboards one guy with a vpn manually filling in captchas once a week. you have got to be soykafting me were we always that vulnerable

>>12490 Despite the thread on autosage, I managed to notify zzzchan.xyz that the XJ9K report list hadn't got rid of the thread and I would like that to be fixed. >>12481 CP2 had spammed /zzz/ but not even as frequent as it used to.

Another one: https://lulz.net/furi/res/3738464.html I couldn't report it due to a "password mismatch"; also not on the list. At last count, the CP2 spammer (in general) had created a whopping 1872 posts, based on XJ9K's report data. /r/ and /zzz/ boards are getting hit by this; we need to sort it out. Image's kind of related but AAARRRRRRRGGGHH

>>12489 XJ9K mentioned this thread in the CP2 report list: https://zzzchan.xyz/v/thread/243693.html#243804 CP2's a spammer, this is the second time it happened.

Ok, so Seisatsu's looking for a PHP developer to help code a secret weapon, as the news happened via Uboachan on my birthday! I saw the count of CP2 spam had reached 2000!

>>12627 CP2's done more than 2281 posts, targeting the likes of: - trashchan.xyz - /comfy/ - lainchan.org - /zzz/ and /r/ - cuatrochan.org - /b/ - uboachan.net - /ot/ - lulz.net/ - furi/ - hikari3.ch - /en/ - 4chon.me - /lounge/ - 28chan.org - /b/ Additionally, it's spread to https://catchan.wf/acat/thread/1.html twice.

>>12727 Speaking of which, inputting these in your browser comes up as normal as if nothing had happened: https://catchan.wf/acat/thread/1.html#16487 https://catchan.wf/acat/thread/1.html#16583 CP2 needs to be stopped. What Seis had said is important, wanting a PHP developer to help code a secret weapon. I'm counting them on.

>>12728 Found CP spam from a person called jiko had attacked the /hum/ and /r/ boards: - https://lainchan.org/r/res/41388.html - https://lainchan.org/hum/res/81925.html XJ9K has now added it to its report list: https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/f9b909f99e41ff3d49426a503f62b57d/ Image attached. Going back on >>12486 I'm not sure if CP2's attacks on tvch.moe are actually listed on XJ9K's reports. Maybe it's a private imageboard that XJ9K doesn't pick up at all, or that it's XJ9K not fetching enough traces of CP spam from tvch.moe into their report list, we could be wrong. There's 2287 posts reported under CP2 now.

>>12738 They gave me 404 errors but those links weren't added to XJ9K's report list. I don't know who jiko is, other than a CP spammer. (I'm counting Seisatsu on that PHP developer thingy, though!)

>>12738 Only Google managed to grab a snippet of information from tvch.moe's /tv/ board; happened two days ago but XJ9K hadn't still picked up CP spam links from the site. Could anyone look into it and know why that XJ9K's not registering anything from that imageboard please? Thanks in advance.

i've seen cases of techniques like this being used in combination with a false flag to get hard drives seized. it could just be some jealous owner of some other board.

>>12756 You mean tvch.moe or another imageboard has been false flagged so that XJ9K can't pick up the data? This should be fixed by XJ9K devs. CP2 posts had gone up by a little bit more than 200 for people brushing past this in general.

>>12744 >>12755 https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/aa7e3f63ea2470bdeedd10657211b75b/ seems to be picking up from tvch.moe instead of Lainchan. Why is this happening when CP spammer jiko attacked our /hum/ and /r/ boards? XJ9K devs should look into both of these, I assume it can't pick up every imageboard?

>>12487 Ok, we are free of this. For now. If you want to check the reporst list, see this link: https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp2/ >>12772 This report list picked up links to tvchan and us, regarding a CP spammer similar to jiko and CP2 - https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/285a5d29a2d7393c4d79a137763c3526/ >>12627 I wish Seisatsu found a PHP developer to help code a secret weapon fast. Anyways, here's the post I found on Uboachan.

>>12776 Not really, many of them keep attacking our /r/ and /zzz/ boards; I reported https://lainchan.org/r/res/41873.html but it's not CP2. Strangely, https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/aa7e3f63ea2470bdeedd10657211b75b/ is tagged as "unclassified", not CP like CP2 usually is. >>12755 >>12772 Ok XJ9K picked up CP2 spam from tvch.moe's /dunk/ (off-topic) and /dup/ (politics) boards.

>>12801 Mods have reduced the CP spam significantly, but they still get through sometimes; if you see it, report it and hopefully they can get to it as soon as they can. For CP spam, mods, is this CP2 being significantly reduced?

There's two counts of CP spam I reported: https://lainchan.org/hum/res/83690.html https://lainchan.org/r/res/42295.html Both of these are by the same person

>>12817 https://tvch.moe/tv/res/339945.html Could be this https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/67f875367b2440165f6981d67ea794c2/ or this possibly https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/d654f2c16253fda063eeb77d3c424a79/

>>12818 How come tvch.moe/tv/res/339945.html hasn't been registered yet on XJ9K? https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp2/ shows that CP2 had stopped. They split into other CP spammers, or I could be wrong?

heolkek.cafe had CP spam the moment the imageboard was back online. Going off-topic, heolkek.cafe kept grabbing server errors from accessing heolkek.cafe/index.html via https://allchans.org/, which brought up "Sorry, you have been blocked; You are unable to access heolkek.cafe" for some strange reason. Browsing heolkek.cafe via search engines works, but why is this a thing when it is not an issue with CloudFlare?

>>12820 Sorry, I thought it was back online, but this was to do with the weird CloudFlare block when I accessed it via allchans.org/; hopefully this is acceptable!

>>12819 Mods, I've been meaning to ask why is CP spam reports from tvch.moe's /dunk/ (offtopic) board registering on XJ9K but not those from /tv/ (Movies and Television) if it's not falsely flagged? Someone mentioned /tv/ being attacked by CP spam on a thread in /dunk/, mods have taken care of them (but keep coming back), but I need answers to how XJ9K isn't fetching CP spam from /tv/. Had anyone contacted Big Al (tvch.moe owner) or their mods on this at all? If not, had anybody spoke to XJ9K devs before? >>12756 I feel this is strange, considering that Big Al isn't jealous but a sane imageboard operator that I met and the mods are good above all those soykafty rambles (Lainchan is awesome, indeed).

https://lainchan.org/r/res/42636.html Got another haughty spammer reported.

>>12846 and another one that's german: https://lainchan.org/zzz/res/7286.html

>>12481 >>12861 My own tiny "community" is getting this prankster/glowie/network as of yesterday. I've already been dreading it for months. The previous admin of megidochan.com (rip) unceremoniously pulled the plug in May after getting burned out by this same incessant spam. reCAPTCHA is quite pointless, I've already seen. Luckily, my userbase is the type to stick to a single 'general' chat thread, so there is always the option of locking off new thread creation as a last resort. Still... That's a bit of a big loss! Rejecting URLs in the OP seems alright for now, but I'm sure the spammer can swap in some @Ｎ0Ｎ+ＡlK style garbage just as soon as I add a complex expression filter. The images accompanying the links are much more immediately upsetting, anyway, so I was wondering if OPs could be forced to choose from a stable of approved images when making a thread.

>>12776 Seis had finally coded the secret weapon, also here's an extra update from them: Not-So-Secret Anti-Spam Weapon Completed — by seisatsu at 07/17/24 (Wed) 15:39:05 I have modified the software today to be able to block the actual endpoints of the shortened URLs usually included in CP spam. This should help a lot with slowing down the spam; the spammers have infinite URL shorteners but so far they all point to the same few places. We will start checking endpoints and adding them to the blocklist soon. Hopefully browsing will become less stressful. This modification has also been submitted as a pull request to the main vichan repo. Hopefully they pick it up and other sites can start using it. Even while browsing boards there, you'll see this message: The new CP spam filter now also works on posts that hide the link in the image instead of the post body. There's still an ongoing issue where CP spam reports from boards such as tvch.moe/tv are still not being picked up by https://xj9k.neocities.org/ and I wish for it to be fixed. >>12910 I've checked, incessant spam had grown in size; Uboachan had coded spam-blocking software and is helping others this way. Hope that helps!

>>12920 >incessant spam had grown in size Yeah, it's a daily thing now. I wonder how long whoever's funding it will keep at it, since they obviously employ humans

>>12910 >>12923 Oh, and since the spammer is ALREADY HERE, there's no point being cagey, /hsg/ on megidochan.de is on their list of boards to hit as well Today it the spam was in french

>>12924 https://xj9k.neocities.org/tags/cp/ https://xj9k.neocities.org/tags/obsession/ - the TAKE ACTION V user believes every spam takedown was "misinformation" which had left me very concerned about https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp4/ - again CP spam Why can't https://xj9k.neocities.org/ pick up data from every website, like it's not guaranteed to pick up as much info about it? This seemed an issue - from what I've seen, boards like tvch.moe/tv hadn't had any post data detected by xj9, only those from /dunk/ and /dup/ boards (like how it attacks our /hum/, /r/ and /zzz/ boards). So, from what we've seen so far, CP spam had been targeting the likes of: - trashchan.xyz - /comfy/ - lainchan.org - /zzz/, /hum/ and /r/ - cuatrochan.org - /b/ - uboachan.net - /ot/ - lulz.net - /furi/ - hikari3.ch - /en/ - 4chon.me - /lounge/ - 28chan.org - /b/ - catchan.wf - /acat/ - tvch.moe - /dunk/, /dup/ and /tv/ Another problem on xj9k's database is that some CP spammers had been tagged as "unclassified" instead of "CP" for unknown reasons. Had anybody looked into this? >>12924 Has this been picked up by xj9k's database yet? And how many languages would they pick up?

wap has received no spam in months. sushigirl and uboa have remained almost spam free lately. whatever figamin or sei are doing its working.

>>12938 i used a very aggressive firewall through nginx that blocked referrers and datacenter ips. this solution worked but a lot of innocent users got blocked (since the firewall meant you couldn't view the site at all) and spam still occasionally came from residential proxies. i retired the firewall, moved the site over to vichan recently and have backported sei's fixes to the master branch so it should hopefully work out

>>12938 Sadly we still have; CP spam reports from specific boards are still not being picked up by https://xj9k.neocities.org/ and I've found more imageboards: - prolikewoah.com - /animu/ - tubgurl.com - /ashleyj/ - comfychan.org - /b/ - sportschan.org - /sp/ - lynx.farted.net - /lynx/ CP2-reported posts have reached 2562, making this the most reported poster on xj9k's database. Compare that to another person with 612 posts reported on one site. This spam is where our serious and effective action is 'long overdue' (no, I'm not that person) and I feel like it kind of fits the current situation now.

>>12970 Sorry but I had been off the rails about posts from the TAKE ACTION V user (the word blacklist filter won't let me call them any other way) getting deleted from Uboachan's /ot/ catalog and picked up by xj9k's database. They believed that every spam takedown was "misinformation", leading to me growing concerns. CP spam had grown in size via xj9k's database. There's so many, but hopefully things can get sorted out. Again, sorry to keep you waiting.

>>12971 Guys http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://uboachan.net/sugg/res/4047.html* got deleted when I was addressing the TAKE ACTION V user. I had believed that every spam takedown was "misinformation" or that this is purely censorship, saying that >"I probably have created a thread about these matters on more than 30 sites over the years; however, saying that I "spammed across 30 different imageboards" is wildly inaccurate" and >"there's a lot of other things to consider" They just don't stop hurting this person. This is wrong: https://xj9k.neocities.org/tags/obsession/ Another CP2 deletion: https://lainchan.org/zzz/res/7306.html When are we getting the CP spam filter by Seisatsu from Uboachan? A couple of imageboards are using it, let's hope we get the spam filter next.

I had checked both /zzz/ and /r/ catalogs and I hadn't seen any evidence of CP spam in them. Uboachan seems to 'record' deleted/error 404 threads on /ot/ unless someone makes a new thread (mostly regarding >>12970) but no evidence of CP spam because of the new spam filter implemented. https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp6/ had recently been at the top of the CP spam list.

>>12920 >>12924 >>12938 >>12910 You can see this link if you want more information on the anti-spam thingy that Seis made: https://uboachan.net/sugg/res/4064.html >>12996 And yes, we haven't received any CP spam as of late :)

>>12996 Speaking of which: https://uboachan.net/sugg/res/4047.html https://uboachan.net/sugg/res/4156.html Both of these threads got deleted over me addressing the TAKE ACTION V user and how mods on the site keep removing their posts when firstly, I've read a lot of information and secondly, mods keep deleting their posts each time I see /ot/ 's catalog 'recording' such posts. I am not that person but please consider that I cannot take it anymore with mods deleting TAKE ACTION V user's posts from Uboachan. This and CP spam is seriously overdone.

>>12997 As mentioned earlier we don't use the anti-spam thing made by Seisatsu because using it would violate our hosting terms of service, and leave us liable for looking up CP (even just to identify the file source host to block it).

>>12999 I don't believe the anti-spam filter could violate the site's hosting ToS if I believe it's amazing how it works. If Uboachan is still working on the fly, will some imageboards get the filter? Could this range across a few different imageboards? And yes, I'm bringing this up again, sorry: https://xj9k.neocities.org/tags/obsession/ Will the TAKE ACTION V user be affected as well as other reports on this list via the anti-spam filter, or is it just CP spam affected by the filter? One other thing. xj9k's database can't seem to pick up data from every website as if it's not guaranteed to pick up as much info about it, especially with tvch.moe's /tv/ board. As far as I know, CP spam data from the /dunk/ and /dup/ boards was picked up on xj9k's database, but those from /tv/ aren't. Possible cases are false flagging to get hard drives seized or ownership, but I don't know to this day why it's not being picked up. Can anybody look into this?

>>13002 >>12998 I suggested to mods via Uboachan to improve their spam filter so that TAKE ACTION V user's posts wouldn't be shown, as well as CP spam, if any. This was an idea that I pitched in the previous threads but hopefully mods won't need their work cut out if the spam filter improved in some way. I'm proud of them working on the spam filter because without me, it would have not been possible.

>>13005 They replied back: >the spam filter is being worked on, don't worry just a heads up

Reported https://www.lainchan.org/hum/res/86583.html They've now gotten to /hum/ via the homepage >:((((

>>13028 That post was gone as soon as I reported it ;D

CP in /r/ Mods pls address. ):

>>13059 This has been derezzed and deleted.

so i'm not really a *chan user but i lurk occasionally. i was wondering - given the cp spam is there any reason not to use some image classifier to auto-flag it? as i understand the current system is just based on hashes and scanning text but that feels like it's easy to defeat. like, would that be too resource expensive or something?

weird porn on the frontpage atm

>>13077 That's gone too, but how long are we going to thwart all of the spam? >>13067 Great idea. However, other imageboards had been using the CP spam filter by Seisatsu, firewalls, etc.

>>13078 that's the scary part, and imo if this spam becomes more frequent then remove the "recent images" just so people don't have to see that soykaf on the front page. on solving the issue (besides filters), would blocking AWS traffic help?

>>13078 As previously discussed, we won't be using the lookup host fix by Seisatsu because it breaches our web hosting terms of service, and it opens us up to additional legal risk. >>13067 The main reason is that use an image classifier like that means keeping an image around to classify, and we don't want to keep the image around. The other reason is the additional work required to implement stuff. I was last working on semantic / lsh hashing and looking into thumbhash for various purposes (alternate spolier images), but I didn't get to finish any implementation of anything. If I get some more time I will look into using thunbhash to default spoiler images, and also look at implementing auto spoiler filters and additional image based filters. As it stands this thread is a containment thread for the one user that wants to comment on NSFW spam across multiple image boards.

Cp post on /zzz/ again. please address.

Update: https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp2/ The last time CP2 spam was detected was from lulz.net's /furi/ at 2025-01-11. Now it's just like post >>12586 with https://zzzchan.xyz/tech/thread/2.html#15264 >>12755 This was taken from tvch.moe/dunk/archive/res/150312.html (now gives me a 404 error) /dunk/ - CP THREAD on /tv/ The glow in the dark killed... "So who spams these evil CP threads? Is it bots? What is their endgame? Why spam it here? Do these bots spam CP on more mainstream websites?" The whole thing was clearly addressed on /dunk/, and if XJ9K had picked up CP spam links from all /tv/ instances than a now-removed thread, things would have been different as far as we would know. Additionally, the thread in question was made last year. Had anyone seen this thread in 2024? Hopefully it should help us out.

I've spotted this post and reported it: https://lainchan.org/zzz/res/7655.html Could this be linked to https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/krv0cgbidqeiofw1xnblww/ since this post is not added on the list? Thanks in advance.

>>13102 IT'S STILL THERE GET RID OF IT

>>13103 That post was gone and was picked up as https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/247b58fc76040ca196fd5eb291fc04ac/ but not classified as CP spam. At least I reported it once.

https://lainchan.org/zzz/res/7734.html was reported as well, credit for another anon for pointing this out

I had checked /zzz/ here, but there's no signs of CP as of recent...

I always feel awful after seeing it. I'm glad it's cleaned up quickly at least, but is there any progress on a solution? For now I just have to remember not to view the home page in fear of recent images.

Somebody posted a Twitter link that's made the post classified as NSFW spam: https://uboachan.net/fg/res/16073.html#q16648 I've reported it because that person thought it would be ok to get away with NSFW spam in an irrelevant board; hopefully it will be registered on xj9k and will get removed by mods there. Fingers crossed.

>>13388 Great goodness it appeared on our site too: https://lainchan.org/drug/res/18148.html#q18200 I've tested the link in Google to see if any imageboards also had this post, but nothing came of it. I used nitter.space to view it (since Twitter checked that the post was NSFW) and the user handle was "julia". However, it's not on xj9k, but this one is: https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/bad201f4c46985939f3ebb193d82abf1/ >>13387 The homepage's recent list helps you to jump to that issue, like the link I've mentioned here. It's helpful in this way, as posts mentioning CP spam are easy to spot.

>>13389 Like this one I've reported now: https://lainchan.org/zzz/res/7864.html Best thing is, the other two links were gone as I've recently checked, shame they don't appear on xj9k. However, newer CP spam had been tagged as #Unclassified instead of #CP and #ShortURL but I don't know who runs the spam detector site at all.

just saw some nasty NSFW /zzz/, it's appearing on the front page right now too.

>>12273 I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of image boards but considering that nearly all of the offending posts are found on /zzz/ couldn't we just force spoiler images on /zzz/. I know it wouldn't solve the problem but it would keep a lot of us from having to see that soykaf whenever we logon.

>>13391 Lainchan's homepage's recent list helps you to jump to that issue, be it the image or the original post body, so then you can report it. >>13393 That's a good idea, seeing that CP spam is awful and out of the loop. ;)

>>12755 I got one obviously: https://tvch.moe/tv/res/360034.html

>>13446 Apparently, it got deleted afterwards the moment I posted the link (the homepage where the site keeps track of recent images/posts had changed by a tiny amount; refer to >>13395). And as for the source I've tracked down via XJ9K, it's https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp4/ However, XJ9K hadn't still picked up CP spam links from tvch.moe's /tv/ board (or possibly another imageboard and topics) and FYI I really hope things like these were addressed and logged in. Image attached; note that the link I've mentioned earlier is not present on this list.

>>13447 Here's an example: https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/414ad9ddafbf4435b02a8afb1fb8b8fe/ CP spam was reported on tvch.moe's /dunk/ board seven times. However, my previous piece of evidence (in this case tvch.moe/tv/res/360034) should've existed so that we can keep track of these reports. Another site that CP spam attacked is https://merorin.com/jp/

Well, I haven't been updating this thread in a while. Yesterday, I reported https://comfychan.org/b/res/2774.html the moment I saw it since it's CP spam, and the same post got reported on our /zzz/ board, just as I had noticed on XJ9K. This is yet another wave of spam after spam that gets reported. Another thing was a user found CP spam had got past Uboachan's improved CP spam filter via /sugg/, their questions and suggestions board: https://uboachan.net/sugg/res/4220.html I've asked the mods "how much are you planning to improve the blocker?" and Sage replied that the filter takes care of link-based spam, but it's not designed to detect text in images. The spammer uses images, so they still manage to spam the site almost every night without fail, also saying they ran an imageboard using the same filter.

>>13526 Now, we have a URL for this CP spammer: https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/3259cb1cb23e35bafa5cec2d65ca6adf/ And from what I hade seen, most of the time it attacked lulz.net's /furi/ board, our /zzz/ board coming second in the wave of attacks.

>>13447 Most of the collected posts from cp4 are from nichan to uboachan. However, I found cp6 posted this: https://zzzchan.xyz/b/thread/277515.html#277566 From what I've seen: >CP gets sites taken down even when it's not real CP >When mass banning some new users from, a mod on the site got one of their innocent posts. Also and CP spammer gets them derezzed sometimes so cp6 guessed they use the same VPN ... how unusual.

As I've seen, deleted posts on Uboachan will still show in the board catalogue. I do not know what goes on in regards to these posts; imageboards like this one always delete posts from boards and their respective catalogues. However, when I clicked the link in uboachan.net/ot/res/29140.html (which was deleted but the husk of it remained in the catalogue), it redirected me to a telgra.ph page, with links to filesfly.cc. This is from https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/08ca284f372809c75b4d15f7fe5dc4b7/ which is again a CP spammer we don't allow. Uboachan, on the other hand, should update their anti-CP spam filters.

I hadn't updated this thread in ages because stuff detected by https://xj9k.neocities.org/tags/cp/ has been quite rare recently. I've checked our ban list and there's plenty of rule #8 and #9 breaches from years ago, but some of them I've reported on the fly. I also searched up other imageboard ban lists but they came up as 404 errors, meaning that they are private. On Uboachan, I asked sage if I could view the site's ban list and they explained "unfortunately, this is for site mods and admins to see". Fair enough - I also reported CP spam there whenever they appeared, and I'm glad they helped answer my worries. However, I have other problems that I'm not going to bring up in this thread, as this is a CP spam report thread that hasn't been active for ages now.

One word: Bump. Although I have personal problems on /q/, I haven't updated this thread in ages... but if you want to track anything in regards to CP spam, look up https://xj9k.neocities.org/tags/cp/ Look for anything on https://lainchan.org/zzz/index.html that's CP spam, however chances are it's rare.

One word: Bump. The usual. I haven't updated this thread in ages, but if you want to track anything in regards to CP spam, look up https://xj9k.neocities.org/tags/cp/ Look for anything on https://lainchan.org/zzz/index.html that's CP spam, however chances are it's rare. I'm sorry if I'm inactive because I had personal issues elsewhere and it had taken a huge toll on my mental health ever since it was too much. Link's here if you want more info: https://lainchan.org/q/res/13691.html Kind regards.

Might be related, saw this post on trashchan a few days ago after somebody linked the post.

>>12281 >In short: I was showing proof, not sharing anything, bud. >bud please don't use reddit lingo. also be more careful with this kinda stuff, if your proof contained links or explicit pics or something, then you still shared it. doesn't matter the intention. a friend of mine had a lot of trouble because he stumbled across this kinda stuff on yandex I think, a view years back, he reported the links to authorities. Guess what? he was ordered to court because he distributed those links to them. the system is a fuarrrk, what I'm trying to say though, he wasn't re-distributing them on a image-board, like you did. 'bud'

>>13810 >east siberia or northeast asia interesting. i made a thread on the sharty complaining about cp spam and somebody said something about the spammer being from omsk. didn't elaborate though

>>13810 https://trashchan.xyz/meta/thread/374.html Seisatsu linked this back in 2024 and the situation was dire, concerning how much CP spam there was regarding a targeted attack via a Uboachan thread. >>13811 Strange that this had been bought up now when the proof was actually deleted by mods, and that https://xj9k.neocities.org/tags/cp/ just redacts a part of a URL. I haven't been on this thread in ages and I am glad this is staying afloat. >>13814 What thread are you referring to where you've got a Rule 4 warning like it's a thread going through a quality check?

I have been aware of a new thread here (https://lainchan.org/q/res/13819.html#q13819) which talks about a bot that attacked a another person's site. This bot was posting CP links on /zzz/, as usual: https://xj9k.neocities.org/posts/cp6/

I'm bumping this so that there is no issue as things are falling out of place

>>13830 NOTE: https://xj9k.neocities.org/ is now broken. I don't know when it happened, or how, but this issue now makes it impossible to keep track of spam posts being catalogued. Mods, is it possible to make a catalogue of CP spam posts you delete? Thanks in advance (even though the site's banlist still works)

>>13881 Has anyone found an alternative report list like how xj9k.neocities.org worked? Thanks in advance

Found a CP spammer on /hum/ and reported it, via the recent posts on the site's homepage: https://lainchan.org/hum/res/97381.html

>>13928 They're doing it again: https://lainchan.org/hum/res/97396.html >>13881 https://xj9k.bot.nu/ The person that made XJ-9K said >"I did receive an email 5 weeks ago from some confused passerby claiming there was an uncensored link and asking [i]"Why even make the site? To spread child porn to more people?", so perhaps they reported it. Or it could be coincidence - I can't imagine such a report taking a month to process.[/i] >"Regardless, the Neocities site was really just a way to pseudonymously host for free, because when I started the site over 5 years ago, I didn't know how to host a website myself or have a way to pay for one without personal information. So this is just the push needed to run the script and the website on a proper server. I'll try and get it up and running when I have a spare couple of hours, and maybe use the opportunity to improve XJ-9K - although I have many other projects I'm actively working on so I generally just maintain XJ-9K for the past few years, rather than develop it." The new site uploads them to a server instead of Neocities', using a FreeDNS domain.

Going to use this thread to say: Spam pedo posts are genuinely starting to get uncanny as hell, and I'm not a person who gets the shivers easily. What do you have to study to make algorithms that detect this messed up soykaf? If that will help this place and maybe other ones I am willing to use my spare time to develop a solution for this.

I had been browsing the xj9k.bot.nu site and found a bunch of posts here: https://xj9k.bot.nu/posts/b0c64a26256ce5e35658de91f21c87a3/ Here: https://sportschan.org/v/thread/3262.html Somebody shortened the links in the post body the moment the thread got posted, unlike the other threads listed on XJ9K. If an anon user shortened the links, why would NSFW material be accepted on sportschan if their rules need updating? Uboachan (before thread #13691) had a better set of rules, Lainchan and TVChan have better rule lists, and there's always room for improvements somewhere else. >>13967 Same here. They've invaded /zzz/ and /hum/ and I've rarely get to report them on the fly; normally it's found on the site's homepage.

>>13975 >"Somebody shortened the links in the post body the moment the thread got posted, unlike the other threads listed on XJ9K." This is what I am referring to. They raised a login/auth block that's simply asking a person for their date of birth, thus showing up other problems in the internet accessibility field. Doesn't seem to be spam but an advertisement pitch.

There's tons of CP spam, but I haven't caught up on it ATM: https://xj9k.bot.nu/tags/cp/ Yes, there's so many of them reported, yet I haven't gotten to report then these days.