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I'm banned from a server I've never heard of because someone I've never heard of reported me to myself for posting a picture of my own grocery store to my own subreddit. (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do the admins of that site receive a report if one of their users reports something?

Reports go to four places:

  • The community moderators.
  • The admins of the instance the community is hosted in. (lemmy.sdf.org)
  • The admins of the instance the reporting user is from. (discuss.tchncs.de)
  • The admins of the instance the reported user is from. (also lemmy.sdf.org in this case)

So yeah, the admins of discuss.tchncs.de acted in this case. Why? I'm not sure.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So, each report does that automatically? That seems like often it would be overkill, but good in other cases.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You'd want all of them. The community moderators receiving the report is obvious. The instance admins get notified because all content that goes through their server is copied and stored on them.

Also I heard that if mods take care of the report before their admins see it, the report doesn't go through anymore, to cut down on the amount they have to deal with? Not sure on how that works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It seems like there could be a flag for whether instance admins get notified or not. If the complaint is something like "this user didn't use a spoiler tag for the most recent episode when the community rules say you should", that would be something that should only involve moderators. OTOH, if it's "this user is evading a ban so they can post revenge porn", then maybe you want the instance admins for the relevant community involved. But, IMO, the local admins (local to the user making the report) should probably only be involved if the remote admins (the ones hosting the community) are not doing their job.