Good feature! Notified me that we had a report that I otherwise wouldn't have noticed!
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
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how about reporting mods for pandering to populist ideas and banning people for comment that doesn't alight with their own personal ideology?
Wait, am i on Reddit again?
lemmy = overly left reddit = overly left with shit tons of edgelords truth media = overly right
all of the above have edgelords who randomly bans people who do not align with their personal ideology or the current populist horseshit.
As an aside, we recommend that all LW communities have at least two moderators so there is some redundancy in resolving reports themselves, and to reduce the workload on individual moderators.
I'd like to add that, while it's not bad to add someone with moderating experience, you should see how many communities that person already moderates. I get asked to moderate new communities sometimes and I always have to turn them down because my voluntary workload is heavy enough as it is.
Nice feature.
As an aside, we recommend that all LW communities have at least two moderators so there is some redundancy in resolving reports themselves, and to reduce the workload on individual moderators. We know this can be harder for smaller communities, but this is just a recommendation.
Sounds like a reasonable recommendation.
The upcoming v20.0 lemmy release should fix remote moderators not receiving almost all of the reports.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4744
Then I'll be able to moderate [email protected] actively from my programmings.dev account and finally abandon this account for the time being.
I wouldn't completely disregard remote moderators breaking again at some point again in the future, but you do you π
That would also require world to update lol
Are you implying that world won't update? You'd be wrong.
They are teasing about LW's longer updates timeframes.
They are the last instance in the top 20 (by monthly active users) still using 0.19.3 with Beehaw: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
I'm pretty sure the LW admins explained why they didn't upgrade to 0.19.5 and that they were waiting for 0.19.6.
Honestly wondering if they'll update at all while waiting for sublinks which is totally ready any day now
we aren't holding back on lemmy updates due to sublinks.
Thanks for clarifying, I don't know why goferking thought that
Maybe I was thinking of beehaw. Some admin was saying it was going to be out any day now before summer started
Probably Beehaw indeed. Beehaw might want to reconsider switching to Piefed or Mbin, it's pretty clear now that Sublinks won't be there any time soon
Probably would help those projects out more if the devs of sublinks went there too
What's a "remote moderator"?
My Dad when he needs to watch football
a moderator on another instance than the community instance
Thanks
Thanks for this. I never noticed I had a 3 week old report open on a LW community I modded because it never federated with my instance.
On the multiple mods thing. Itβs also worth having multiple mods in multiple time zones so there is overlap.
Is the bot broken or was this just a test?
There were two brand new reports and I got this:
that was a logic flaw for the selection of which reports are considered for alerting. a fix is currently being deployed, but you should be good for the next 2 days anyway.
Excellent news! Itβs good to hear youβve designed a workaround to help for outstanding stale reports. Keeping up with moderation is tough.
One thing is unclear to me (and perhaps because Iβm still bleary-eyed from sleep), but do these stale open moderator reports go to the assigned Community Mods only? If they persist without action for some time, would they be extended to other mods or admins?
Thats a pretty good idea for this type of bot. I will discuss this with the team. But for admins we have already some analytics for this situation.
Got it. If you have information points upstream for these types of situations that the Admin team already actions, then there's no point building on top of it to extend stale un-actioned moderator reports to larger teams. Considering the admin team is large here, it may not make sense to spend the cycles to enhance it further.
IIRC, reports are sent at the same time to
- community mods
- community admins
- reportee admin
yes, but for admins, at least on LW scale, this isn't something that is well usable for admins with built-in tools.
community mods and instance admins can see reports on the instance that reports are sent to, and they are currently only sent to the reporters instance, the community instance, and the reported users instance. community mods on another instance won't see the reports.
Yeah it's been manageable on our instance so far. I'd say our admin team manage most of the reports if the community mods don't get to them within an hour or two. Works well for smaller instances, but I can see how it wouldn't scale well at LWs size.
Good idea to double up on mods. I added a new mod to Artshare, and looking for another for Cooking.
Whelp, I considered 8h to be long for addressing issues, but I have no life... Classic mod style π
All I ask is, if you see something, flag it. That doesn't mean I will always take action, but it is always appreciated just the same.
A good mod is an invisible mod to almost all users. In fact, I really wish we could institute this distinction as a part of Lemmy code and culture, (but it might be untenable with people of different personalities). I wish I did not have a mod tag by default. If I choose to act as a mod, I have the option to add the tag.
In a perfect world, if a mod interacts with users directly in a conversation, they would be blocked from escalating privileges to the mod tag and taking actions against the user. They would be required to keep an extra active mod for the community, with a unique history and IP address that would be able to address any flags they or others create. Such a system would solve a lot of bad-mod complaints that are universal to link aggregation platforms. This requirement would force objective judicial thinking that is more resistant to biases and emotions. It would also press active communities to expand their pool of franchised users by adding extra mods, likely increasing post quality and frequency by those that feel a little more motivated to lead in active posting. The last aspect I can think of off the cuff is that it would likely require an extra layer of Admin notifications and awareness in very rare instances where multiple mods have engaged within a single conversation and then it has become an actionable issue, then it would require admin actions. Really, applying such a system to everyone except the root admin owner would be a way to use checks and balances to ensure healthy balanced oversight in all instances. It is essentially rejecting the persistent root super user login and instituting a sudo type escalation layer for mods and admin but on a more social level.
Can we have some way for reports to bypass mods with their own op?
Example, stop loli. I reported this but I have a feeling op just closed it.