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Moderation needs to be better on Lemmy. (self.general)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by app_priori to c/general

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The influx of new users here has also encouraged a lot of unsavory denizens to relocate here as well.

I've already been harassed by a user and I am seeing a few trolls here and there posting with impunity and provoking users. We need better moderation or else shit will go downhill very fast here.

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[–] ElectroVagrant 10 points 1 year ago

Basically this. I do try to skim over many of the new posts here, but I'm not here 24/7, so reports are very much appreciated for helping pinpoint spammers and worse.

Also a little reminder that community moderators (& instance admins besides the owner) are community members as well, which is to say, they're simply here in a similar way to anyone else. You can even spin up a community here to see what tools mods have to work with if you happened to be interested, which uh...Is definitely another area of improvement for Lemmy; and if you were really dedicated, you could spin up a whole instance to see what the admins have to work with, which I gather is also somewhat lacking.

Regardless, don't be afraid to use the report tool, DMs, & support communities, e.g. [email protected], for reaching out to mods/admins for any negative interactions you run into and behavior that appears in direct violation of a community's rules, & the instance code of conduct. Also in the event a community itself is a concern and you don't want to report posts/comments there out of concern of its moderators targeting you, go straight to the admins via DMs/email or whatever other contact method they offer outside of the instance, as this is likely the safest way to approach that situation.