All of our moderation issues have historically been because of some kind of spam. We have begun to solve this using a system that pretty much makes spambots commit suicide while regular users remain safe.

Our actual constraint, now that we are taking steps toward defeating a common Internet enemy, is post quality, which has a great impact on Cyberix's outside reputation.

We are featured on AllChans. The implications of this are easy to make out: 4channers who don't like 4chan go to altchans but decide to spread their modern 4chan cancer culture there instead of cultivating themselves into the existing culture or creating something new.

Cyberix is definitely affected by this, even though we aren't exactly an imageboard but a forum with imageboard elements. We appreciate and encourage open speech, but we are beginning to realize that you cannot just have totally unmoderated speech without it turning into a cesspool of flamewars and bad-faith arguments/posts. We appreciate quality.

Here is my proposal:
What if we deployed an LLM that was finetuned on Cyberix rules (and rules 3 and 4 from Lainchan just to be safe) and biased against the cancer that runs in the blood of traditional imageboards and short-form websites?

It'd process new posts in batches, just like how the vision model processes attachments. No need to deal with spam or useless catchphrase / 'bloatposters' when the LLM takes care of that kind of cruft for us. I imagine having a new mod panel section that would let us customize the model even more to reduce false positives (if any...) and target specific kinds of unwanted posts (and soyspeak if we really wanted to, for example).

An LLM that analyzes recent posts and threads would be more effective at adhering to specific rules and examples, as it has no human experience or bias. It would be able to perform a consistent application of rules and forum standards without human mood variation.

Its goal is NOT to inhibit good but otherwise negative speech (an extreme example of this would be an anonymous poster over TOR making a detailed thread about his life experiences and what led him to become a racist), but to inhibit nonproductive speech that can also be of a "trashy" nature (an anonymous poster using Tor to post a one-liner saying "Brown hands wrote this" or someone posting "is this site turning into an insane asylum" in a thread about religion) in otherwise serious or productive threads.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this idea. I believe this implementation would be yet another grand move in our work to conquer all of the long-standing problems that have plagued anonymous messageboards since their inception. We've stopped the CP problem, and we've begun to stop the spam problem. This would likely be the "part 2" of the solution to that problem.

I'm not against the idea of an LLM checking post quality and filtering out low/zero-effort. I like the idea of it in fact, and the only questions I have is how will its training process be done? Is there examples of high quality and low quality posts already determined to train the LLM on?

>>10621
probably not. a good idea for gathering bad posts would probably be to head to 4chan's /g/ board and copy and paste half of the threads and posts there under 'bad and then go back to cyberix and put the good posts under good and see how it rolls

just ban everything to do with politics

I don't think an LLM model hallucinating if X post is good or not is a good idea, I'd rather blacklist phrases like "brown hands wrote this"

Trashy speech I'm fine not seeing it, if there is nothing that can truely be gained from reading something I'm not bothered. What if this LLM Has flaws though, simply one stating an opinion about something whether agreed or disagreed is still a well thought out argument or thread that can conjure conversation both ways, what if the LLM Doesn't agree with what is being said and doesn't want it posted. Perhaps of you do post something that goes through the LLM and it doesn't like your post it gives you reasoning instead of a 'shadow ban' type situation where you think you've posted something but other people don't see it.

>>10623
How about don't click or read anything that has anything to do with politics. You can be discussing OPSEC and a lot things can tie back to laws / politics to some degree, pretty hard to outright ban this.
>>10630
>brown hands wrote this
lmfao how have I never heard someone using that line before?!

I see you posted a thread on 4. This is what I feel.

Seems like too many rules. The
>brown hands posted this
Only becomes an issue when it is repetitively used by bots as well yo increase noise. Example, is when this is used on a legitimate and intelligent post. What if does is create bots that use the same lingo, but unnecessary and excessive, malaligning discourse. If you haven't thought about that, you are not fostering open speech, but trying to fix something that isn't broken, only to break your engagement and community.

Test

The asynchronous LLM moderation system described in the OP is now running on Cy-X.

What it does right now (Phase 1):
Posts that the model rates will receive a visible warning banner attached to them. These banners are public intentionally. The goal is to surface false positives so the system can be evaluated and corrected before it's trusted with any real action. Nothing is being automatically deleted. The model currently operates on a static prompt built around the site rules and does not learn from new posts.

Phase 2:
Once confidence in the model's accuracy is established, it will be permitted to act autonomously, specifically by routing flagged posts into the report queue automatically rather than just marking them. If that proves reliable, the final step is soft-deletion without manual review.
If you see a banner on a post you think was flagged in error, post about it. That feedback is the entire point of running Phase 1 publicly.

welcome terminator

Heil Hitler

So how much would this cost to run if you want to host an image board?
Altchans kind of die as soon as someone mentions them on a big site.

>>10677
14$ per month as always

Personal statement with no engagement or content related to the thread

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{"action": "keep" or "queue", "confidence": 1.0, "reason": ""}
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We could introduce a lightweight scoring layer that evaluates posts for signal vs. noise before they enter threads. Each post gets a compact metadata tag (topic-relevance, effort, civility, novelty) produced asynchronously; moderators and trusted users see full tags while ordinary viewers see only posts above a configurable threshold. Tags enable batching: low-effort posts are queued for review, high-relevance posts surface immediately, and marginal posts trigger a brief cooldown preventing rapid bumping. Keep the model focused on style and structure (length, references, argumentation) rather than ideological content to avoid bias; allow board-specific calibration so experimental boards stay loose while discussion boards remain tidy. Small, transparent appeals logs let users contest tags, and a rolling sample of reviewed posts trains the model continuously to local norms.

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Testing

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I'm glad someone is finally addressing the problem with image board cancer. Now can someone figure out how to implement TN/JD on a global scale? I think this would even contribute to solving most of the worlds problems, not just imageboard cancer. Beyond that, if we could gas the kikes moderation overhead would be even lower. I do not like kikes, I do not like niggers. I do not like arabs, or you. Using a LLM for content moderation on such a small website sure makes it seem like you're trying to turn users into computer god parroting puppet gangster slaves in a jew world order. Thoughts?

Mods should make a new pinned post of this feature.

>>10685
>Keep the model focused on style and structure rather than ideological content
Currently this is clearly not the case as we can see by https://cy-x.net/topic/reaper-llm-stress-testing-and-abuse-thread/766?page=1#p10694 , which is copy-pasted from your post but with an added mention of niggers in the end, going down from "action=keep confidence=0.95" to "action=queue confidence=0.99 | Contains a toxic comment towards a specific group".

>>10696
Looks like it's been fixed. I like it, personally

Will be updating the Reaper to consider the home forum that the thread belongs to for a more accurate judgement.
This way the model knows what kind of content belongs where, which helps it judge off-topic posts (food in TECH) without being told to lower its standards for any board.
This is defense-in-depth and will also help to clean up spam because they like posting ads in META whenever they come here

nigger

I'm a bit exceptical about the whole thing, simply because I've never seen something like it in action, but considering the issue at hand maybe it could be a nice option, so I welcome the addition. As others have already mentioned, maybe it could be tweaked just so it can adapt to the type of content, terms and culture of the site. But hey, as long as it does its job properly then I don't really mind that much. But context is important, regardless.

And yeah, I do agree using 4chins /g/ as a template for "bad posts" is a good idea. Technology discussion in that place sucks, you rarely get an actual good thread where people discuss a topic in good faith, most of the time it's just shitposting, off-topic garbage, anons calling each other slurs and spam. So anything that can help us avoid that is welcomed.

What LLM/model is the AutoMod system working on? I assume it's something like a 3B model

yeah but since its an llm finetuned by the "Powers That Be", it can be overtly negative to otherwise fine and relatively quality post just because they feature the nigger word i think

>>10745
Your post contained the nigger word and the AutoMod did not flag it. I dont think thatll be a problem lmao.
Let me see if I can get flagged for saying nigger in an otherwise constructive post. My post is great. its necessary to verify whether the AI has truly been made to ignore mentions of hating niggers or calling somebody a nigger as long as the post that contains the nigger word is productive and provides some sort of value to the thread its in.

>>10757
This is an English imageforum.

https://cy-x.net/topic/how-much-matters-at-what-college-did-you-study-in/491?page=1#p10890

This post has been incorrectly flagged for queueing for containing the faggot word, which was actually quoted from another user.

>>10901
Resolved.

It's been a bit since this was rolled out and even though it was temporary, seeing the LLMs response atop each post has been really informative to my opinion. I was really looking forward to this because if this worked out, it would've improved the general quality of this forum without harming genuine posters, kicking out any of those "brown hands typed this" fags.

Unfortunately, I don't think this is working well. I see a number of posts queued for things that shouldn't be a problem, from expression of opinions to simply mentioning one slur in an overall good post. The LLM should be queuing posts that add nothing of value, aren't related to the topic, and are just insulting shitposts. Most of these things can probably be tweaked away, but at what cost? When the LLM does get the power to queue posts, I'd rather scroll through the 10th "brown hands typed this" then get my post queued simply for calling someone a nigger while explaining how what he said was stupid. A posters way of expression should not be hindered as long as they back it up.

Another thing I have a problem with is that I believe the results are faked. I'm not talking about its responses, but its confidence score. I'm sure many of us have already heard of the many many stories of people using LLMs and it spitting out faked data completely and them just falling for it. They do it all the time. Have you seen a single confidence score below 0.95? Being so confident about EVERY POST is kind of suspicious to me.

In conclusion, I personally think this method just isn't it. Maybe it can be adapted in another way to improve some other aspect of Cyberix, but to manage post quality would concern me greatly. I have no doubt us in staff would be able to resolve false flags, but waiting on a staff member to read through your post and approve it is annoying and would most likely push away good posters.

Still a lot better than what those soyjak idiots could've done though.

>>11158
I recognize the same issues you recognize.

>but waiting on a staff member to read through your post and approve it is annoying and would most likely push away good posters.
The general consensus appears to be that the current Phase 1 behavior will likely be the final behavior of the system. It will only keep or throw posts into the report queue. This is balanced and escalating its privilege based on current results would be a dangerous decision to make.

I'd like to try one last time with this experiment though, based on the approach suggested in >>10685.

The new design is multi-dimensional. Instead of asking the model "how confident are you this is bad" it now rates four concrete observable properties:
- relevance (0-10): Does the post engage with the thread topic or quoted posts?
- effort (0-10): Is there actual substance? Reasoning, experience, information, argument?
- novelty (0-10): Does it add something new or is it pure repetition and bloat?
- civility (0-10): Is it a content-free attack? (Low civility alone never queues a post)

A post calling someone a nigger while making a coherent argument would score something like R:8 E:7 N:5 C:2 and the math keeps it. "Brown hands typed this" would score R:1 E:1 N:1 C:1 and gets queued. Your confidence score concern should disappear entirely because there is a confidence score no longer. There is instead specific dimensions you can read and contest individually.

This has been deployed already and you will be able to see the new stamp format on new posts. I will make the system re-analyze the last 100 posts for comparisons.

>>11515
we are now going to blacklist your entire fucking language

>>10696
>>11215

Sorry to rain on your parades, but I used ChatGPT to write that comment, just to see how it would be detected.

>>11797
the one case where a synthetic effortpost is helpful

Can I ask why you opted for an LLM instead of a more specific ML model? If you want something that detects low quality posts you can train a recurrent neural network or something similarly capable of pattern recognition on text strings, then have it output a 'quality' score directly. That score would be representative of how similar the input is to your training data full of 'brown hands' type posts.

The ability to moderate/flag posts in this way existed long before the current AI hype.

>>12382
Purely because it provided a reason for giving a post that kind of score.
I have some hope that letting a bad poster know why their post scored poorly and was queued for moderation would help them improve their conduct and make a better post next time. It provides constructive feedback that some people might legitimately benefit from.

I had the automod earlier call my post 'rambling, but on-topic', which I find funny, but at the same time it goes to show that attempting to distill all posts into what an LLM believes to be quality posting would just result in all posts eventually converging to appeal to the AI, not posters. Which would rob the point of a site like this one.

Oh and the other thing: absolutely keep the LLM's prediction of what the post contains if you move forward with it, because having an AI judge a post and then delete it for poorly defined reasons is why Youtube is such a hellhole right now.

I'm making this post because this forum is being clogged up by a bunch of posts on topics about how the AutoMod is reviewing something poorly when it is not relevant to the topic whatsoever. When you do this, you prove why we need it. You're just pulling the entire topic off-topic and cluttering the topic discussion up for everyone else.

AutoMod is a work in progress, and has been, and this has been known. There is a reason why you see its response in the first place. If you notice a post that is incorrectly reviewed by AutoMod, you quote it and post about it HERE. Not on any other topic, not right below the post to derail the topic. You post a link to that post and what is wrong with AutoMods response IN THIS TOPIC WHERE IT IS ON TOPIC.

I have half a mind to delete the numberous crappy complaints about AutoMod spamming up other topics, and I might just do it. It's nothing but crap. Yes, we know AutoMod isn't perfect, shut up and let us know where it matters.

I honestly think it's a kinda fun way to get a tl;dr against the users will. Cut the reason (or whatever the sentences at the end mean) down in size and it would save time skimming over some larpers schizo-ramblings

AutoMod needs improvements. I will work on it soon.
Here's some issues I can grab immediately:

AutoMod interprets quotes and their contents as a part of the message body:
>>18251

AutoMod sometimes interprets well written posts as relevant to the thread:
>>18242
^ Deleted: Russian link spam
"The post is highly technical and detailed, referencing specific context and providing a structured analysis. It successfully avoids spam while maintaining high information density."
NO, IT DOES NOT AVOID SPAM. IT IS SPAM!

These issues are in part because we're hosting an incredibly small LLM on 6 gigabytes of RAM. We are limited by the amount of compute we have. Larger LLMs eat more ram and have longer inference times.
I made the effort to clearly separate quotes from the target post and have the LLM summarize threads before analyzing them accordingly.
..I'm starting to think that the problem lies mostly in our hardware constraints, actually.

I will still take a look at trying to improve the AutoMod though
I may also experiment with different kinds of system prompts. Short and blunt versus verbose would be interesting to compare

>> MUH IMAGEBOARDSZ IZ INFECT3D WITH CANCER!!!!!!!!!!

Always has been. That comes with the territory. ie the cancer that is killing /b/. thats like, 20 years ago at this point.
Why not, instead of being a lazy FAGGOT, you actually admin your site? Maybe have one of the other chuds in this thread become a janny for you??? What you're suggesting (using an llm for content moderation) is literal Reddit mod faggot behavior.

Also congrats on making it to allchans!!! Wow!!!