To the admins and moderators of Lemmy: How often do you encounter disturbing content? How do you cope with the things that you see?

I don't see disturbing stuff that often, usually few times a year, but it's usually some very disgusting csam.

Most of the time it's just spam and trolls, but from time to time these degenerates show up.

It doesn't really have any lasting effect on me, I kinda manage to not think about it at all. I guess my aphantasia helps here as well, I think it's much harder for folks who can visualise things in their mind.

The worst has probably been the CSAM and the detailed instructions on how to kill yourself or suicidal ideation.

In the end, to me, it's just more content to remove, just like spam.

I moderate a few smaller but active ones. I don't see a whole lot of bad stuff apart from the occasional garbage opinion such as [insert least favorite ideology here].

This might be because the places I mod are pretty chill in nature. I'm sure of the topic was something more volatile and spicy, such as politics, it could be a different story.

There was a while after the Reddit exodus where apparently lots of CSAM was being posted. I never saw it personally, but apparently it was a big issue.

When I volunteered as a new mod starting last year, I saw some horrific csam posts that I can't forget, I just hope those who reported them have recieved some mental health support.

To cope, I hike to my local park, take edibles, try to do anything to keep me distracted but it's hard to forget. Even as I sit here freezing in my chair the ticking of my clock is a deafening reminder of the garbage I've seen. It doesn't help in that I'm an empath(I receive the pain of others) either so I just think about why these things happen and try to promote systems that prevent past mistakes from reoccurring.

A couple systems I'm aiming to improve is public education and mental health support. When people know how to better protect themselves and those most trustworthy nearest to them, the higher likelihood that atrocities like these can be prevented and stopped. That's the hope anyways. No guarantee it'll work.

Most things are ads, spam or people reporting comments they politically disagree with.

There was a troll spamming cp some time ago, but that was before my time as a mod / admin.

So far I've just seen some deeply racist memes and comments. Thankfully it hasn't been very frequent, so it's not really been anything I had to cope with mentally or anything.

Some freak posted a pt cruiser. Therapy bills in the thousands.

This community was included in that spamwave a few months ago. I saw a few CSAM here. We had to lock the entire community down to deal with it.

That spamwave at the time was happening in the entire fediverse btw.

Woah what the hell? I've seen like 5 comments mentioning CSAM. I'm gonna need someone to elaborate on what the fuck was going on

I run a community that has like 8 posts, most by me, so never. I need to post again cause that Marvel game is dying.

Not an admin or moderator but dear god it must be difficult to cope mentally and emotionally for any and all moderators to see truly disturbing stuff. That’s a salute they don’t get enough credit for.

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I moderate [email protected] and so far I have not encountered a single disturbing post that had to be removed. I imagine in non-political areas of lemmy, people are more chill.

Apparently some mods definition of disturbing is different than the rest of ours. One of them thinks talking about jury nullification is the utmost horror.

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Isn't this on the same level (hilarious and obvious fetish request) as asking a soldier how many people they've killed?