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

Are there any good ML algorithms for detecting porn at all? I tried to implement the standard "pink detector" with mixed results.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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?