yes? you're missing the point. the guy who asked the sort by peers function only useful for torrents, you will find nothing but direct links on AT. Also, it's extremely easy to get around ISP block for Nyaa. stop being lazy, my dude.
As I am in a different time zone, I noticed those CSAM posts hours earlier than registrar and admin-san noticed. I could have warned about it if direct or semi-direct contact were possible. How about setting a bbs not under the animetosho domain, and setting to make all posts automatically forward to admin-san's mail? This bbs is also used for announcements when the site downtime. spam will be a problem though. As I am in a different time zone, I noticed those CSAM posts hours earlier than registrar and admin-san noticed. I could have warned about it if direct or semi-direct contact were possible. How about setting a bbs not under the animetosho domain, and setting to make all posts automatically forward to admin-san's mail? This bbs is also used for announcements when the site downtime. spam will be a problem though.
Take into account how many new anime uploads as well as old uploads there are each day. For admin to filter through all of them is crazy. Any one can register an account with a false name and email account... cough, cough, Facebook... so that's not going to stop the wrong things from getting mirrored on this site. You can also change the name of the file to sneak through the filters as well.
Considering it's not taking things from both, it would probably be optimal to put stuff from Anidex to the side, take things from Nyaa if they appear there, and leave the rest (that wasn't already filtered out) to human review.
That would solve the problem for Anidex while, even if late, keeping Releases that are only there. But obviously its on Admin-san to decide if that work for him and/or whoever he trust is worth it.
I don't have an account here, but could one way to possibly reduce / prevent this is to have registered people have the ability to "report" submissions, and when a certain threshold is reached, the link is automatically hidden from public view until manual approval? It would probably be abused though, but hopefully less so especially if users are registered...
Thanks. There are filters in place to try to exclude these posts, but they didn't catch it this time. I've added more filters, but how effective they are remains to be seen. It's unfortunate, but automated filters are rarely 100% effective.
I think people are mis-attributing the problem to Anidex. I very much dislike their lack of moderation, but Nyaa has had CSAM posted several times, even after registrations were closed, so it's not a problem unique to Anidex. Having said that, I'm very much in favour of dropping Anidex if a better alternative exists*.
It may surprise some, but there actually are numerous filters in place, which has had varying degrees of success in the past. Unfortunately, the people posting this stuff are often trying to evade filters to some degree (using misspelt words, posting many variations to see what passes through etc), which is easy for a human to identify, but not so much for a bot. Nonetheless, I've added more guards in place to hopefully deal with it better next time. Unfortunately, nothing is 100% effective, and as much as I detest it, it's a risk that running AT bears.
Highly appreciate the suggestions though!
* I'm actually a bit on the fence with dropping Anidex, even without an alternative. This isn't because of the recent incident, but more of it's managed in general.
To me the weird thing was the registrar going along with this. If he scrolled back a page he would see this was a blob of gunk with nothing before it. I don't think anyone would have expected such a reaction.
Makes me wonder if maybe it was deliberate - someone gets a third party to flood AniDex with CSAM such that AniDex categorizes it as English-translated anime (so AnimeTosho picks it up), then they immediately contact AnimeTosho's registrar in order to report it and get the site taken down.
Oh yes I see the post now, yesterday 11:08. Well that's kind of weird the registrar pulled the plug not even 24h of it occurring, and why they were watching the site so quickly -- or how quickly someone reported it. Curious as to why AniDex wasn't taken down, probably different registrars and no one watching. I agree with removing AniDex.
Not sure, all I know people still uses anidex. All I said maybe it's time to abandon anidex entirely to avoid this kind of problem in the future. Nyaa has closed their registration for this exact reason.
That's at least something, that they did push it faster when they could have laid back and wait till it happens automatically. The sad thing is the takedown in the first place. It's not like you willingly upload it, but are willing to delete it, usually fast. And all just because a bit slowdown .... I wasnt online that time, but read even the naming was quite clear? May block that too? Of course some content detection would be best, but I am not aware something exists (cheeply)? Else its hard to detect, rather trackers need to check on hashes of known leaks and such so legit accounts cant be missused. But you wont ever be 100% safe anyway.
I think it might be worth it to stop mirroring Anidex or at least have a blacklist that'd skip obvious porn uploads. As far as I know, Anidex has been abandoned by the owner and its mods and it's basically running on auto-pilot with hacked accounts constantly spam uploading illegal material. In my opinion, Anidex has become useless and it is not worth the extra trouble to keep mirroring from it, especially because of the nature of materials uploaded by the hacked accounts
Comment in Feedback 04/07/2024 16:56 — Anonymous: "MaxiMusMiMus"
No apologies necessary admin! It was those assholes uploading stuff they shouldnt have causing everyone grief. So happy AT is back in all its glory. Thank you for providing us with this invaluable service!
It's more or less what everyone suspected. I was unfortunately slow to see/react to the CSAM posts, which gave time for the registrar to notice it, and they immediately nuked the domain without notice.
found it by using the tor-rowser, if you go to a clearnet url like AT, if there is a .onion available, (i guess advertised by the clearnet site or linked in the site code somewhere, never looked into how it actually works) a field next to the url in the tor-browser will appear that will tell you that there is a .onion available and if you click on it it will open that page, then c'n'p the url into a txt file for future use :u
08/07/2024 04:24 — Anonymous