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Re:Ask HN: How do I keep child porn out of my site? on Friday July 10, 2015 @11:41PM (#9868433)
Are there any good ML algorithms for detecting porn at all? I tried to implement the standard "pink detector" with mixed results.
Re:Ask HN: How do I keep child porn out of my site? on Friday July 10, 2015 @11:37PM (#9868427)
If you can locate the article, I'd love to give it a read.

I'd rather keep my money inside US borders, but it ain't cheap, and staring at the sickening contents of the internet's collective wet dream ain't exactly a high-profile career path for young folks.

Re:Ask HN: How do I keep child porn out of my site? on Friday July 10, 2015 @11:34PM (#9868413)
I'm not sure why it never caught on with my users.

I do support Twitter login which is fairly common, and have had a few hundred users sign up (out of like >10mil uniques), but I wouldn't say that they've exhibited overly engaged behavior after doing so. They're basically the same from a stats perspective from what I've observed.

I'm afraid to make user logins compulsory, especially considering the kinds of knuckleheads that are on my site.

How do I get from "eh, have fun as a guest" to "everyone's got an id" without destroying my stats?

Re:Ask HN: How do I keep child porn out of my site? on Friday July 10, 2015 @11:29PM (#9868391)
Supposing I was ok with directly alerting the authorities, which for some reason seems to be perhaps a bridge too far, how would I even go about that? Where's the "report pedophiles" REST API?

Ask HN: How do I keep child porn out of my site?

(Pardon this disturbing subject interfering with your Friday night rest and my (very necessary) throw away account.)A year or two ago I started an image sharing site that's been modestly successful in terms of traffic (a blessing). No money or fame, but it's nice to see movement.I try to filter user uploads to at least classify the sexual stuff (80% of it) as nsfw and feature good stuff on the...

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