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What if the ModLog was a community? (piefed.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Every mod action would automatically create a new post. Anyone could see what is going on and express their approval / disapproval with votes. Maybe even comment on the post.

It should probably be a local-only community (no federation) to avoid clogging up other instance's "All" feed with mod actions?

What do you think of this idea?

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[–] TootSweet 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

So, I'm not a member of PieFed, but...

First, I'll say I'm not really a fan of the idea. I'd expect a lof of those threads to just devolve into trolls and asshats using it as their personal soap box even though 90% of users approve of the action that was taken.

Also, what problem are you trying to solve with this suggestion?

But, also, and I'm not saying I'd be a fan of this, you could theoretically do that without asking. You could make a community and set up a bot to make a thread in that community for every mod action on the instance. (Or maybe that's what you're considering and you're just trying to test the waters first.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, that's what I'm considering but only if people think it's a good idea.

In my experience people who have been banned rarely have anything positive or constructive to say about it so most likely each thread would need to be locked upon creation.

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

Who moderates it?

[–] rezz 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I vote Riker.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It was a rhetorical question and yet you somehow managed to give the correct response!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How does the modlog look like right now? I guess it's non existent? Anyway, functionality wise I'd be fine with it working like a community but I wouldn't want it to show up in the community listings or in topics, etc. It should be treated like something which is not part of communities but part of administration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, no modlog at present but it's next in the queue.

Based on feedback here I think it'll just end up being a boring ole table with some filtering.

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

My initial response was: that sounds a bit like a 'fake community', something for which I thought the consensus was 'bad idea'. Moreover, it'd arguably be a fake community full of fake posts.

Lemmy has 2 types of modlog - one for each community and one that's instance wide. Would the plan be a community just for the instance, or something that merged actions from both?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably merged from both?

I've just realised that having it as a community would mean there'd be no special filtering options e.g. by account or community. Not ideal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Post search can be used for filtering by user or community. And if you want the users to be able to not see a specific types of posts in the community then run a separate bots for different posts so users can block them specifically and still see the rest of stuff.