Defeating the cancer of imageboards through asynchronous LLM post quality moderation

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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.
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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?
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>>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
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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"
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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.

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>>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?!

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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.

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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.

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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.
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14$ per month as always

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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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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?

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