Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy
Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy
I don't know what I'm doing differently but I really haven't experienced the things everyone complains about. It's been fine overall. Not a ton to see but that just means I don't waste so much time.
i've said it before and i'll say it again. give me a spec and i'll (try to) write you a tool.
i'm a competent coder, but i have no idea kind of what mod tools are needed.
For starters, a way to unban people would be nice. Then, also, a way to easily see new content for their community. Like, only new content. And not see it after it has been marked as "reviewed" (except as context to unreviewed content, when unfolded). I mean, new posts, new comments, etc. With alerts. Also, sudden activity alert.
A way to match keywords, and bring up matching posts and comments.
Metrics about each user's contributions to the community, are they new, or seasoned. Did they contribute mostly popular content or unpopular content? What words do they use most? Etc.
Compiling multiple reports for a single post/comment into one. Ignoring reports from select users.
That's all I can think of for now.
But, essentially, a dashboard with live content, showing "old" content as "greyed out", and relevant actions, would be really, really useful.
Edit: additionally, automated actions would be great. Answering posts/comments matching regexes with templates populated with the user's information; automatically removing, issuing warnings, and banning (outright or after n warnings) people for specific terms, etc.
It would also really help to have automation workflows (e.g. user commented with "r-word" or "n-word", autocomment a warning, wait X minutes/hours, or Y minutes/hours after user comments again, remove comment/ban).
This automation could come as an additional tool, to be ran under a separate account.
it's a start. i'm on holiday at the mo. i'll have a look when i get back
- Report queue. Right now, reports go to a queue that both instance owners and mods use. This makes it impossible to mod because the instance owners mark items as completed before mods even had a chance to look at them.
Now, if it's the case where it's user abuse it's fine for the instance owner to take care of it.
But if it's just breaking the rule of a community, the instance owner should never even see it.
Separating the queues would help both mods and instance owners.
- The ability to hide a community from All and/or Local. Some communities just aren't appealing to the general public. And when All surfers see posts, they just downvote them into oblivion.
these could be a little more difficult. they seem to be instance level features.
i might be able to do a tool for the first one using filters if there is a way to insert keywords into a report e.g. "To Mods" or "To Admins"
Love the attitude 💪 Let me know if you need help in your quest.
I escaped ads and a dictatorship only to come here and be told how great communism is with an even greater frequency.
Blocking hexbear communities just led to those users going to other instances and making the whack-a-mole more difficult.
Great news, communism is neither an ad nor a dictatorship!
That's a bit of paranoia to think people from Hexbear are out to spread their evil ideas to polute your mind any way they can..
I dont think it is because of me, but if they are getting fewer reactions they might apread out.
Interesting topic - I've seen it surface up a few times recently.
I've never been a mod anywhere so I can't accurately think what workflows/tools a mod needs to be satisfied w/ their, well, mod'ing.
For the sake of my education at least, can you elaborate what do you consider decent moderation tools/workflows? What gaps do you see between that and Lemmy?
PS: I genuinely want to understand this topic better but your post doesn't provide any details. 😅
Is there any instance that doesnt allow automated archives of reddit posts?
lemmit.online runs on it's own instance. have you encountered other reddit archival bots?
Seems like 80% of the posts i see across most instances are just bot scrapes from reddit.
I have built my own instance and federate with any instance that has interesting communities. No problems here.
Home feed for the win. Granted I should probably migrate to another instance (again). I can only block so many anime and cat communities…