Saw a post about a user saying he enjoys reading the modlogs for some reason. So I went ahead and checked it out which got me thinking…

Have we deleted/censored anything in this instance yet? Have we banned anyone yet?

Anyone willing to take one for the team/instance?

(The last line was a joke. Don’t ban me plis.)

  • MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Personally I haven’t removed anything or banned anyone. I will do so if something reported is highly inappropriate, but other than that I would much rather be here if someone needs help, got any questions/suggestions/requests than play around and be the power tripping police if that makes sense.

    And to be completely honest I find the whole moderation system a bit confusing and needs to be reworked a bit because I get reports for things that just the moderators of a certain community should be getting and resolving (I don’t care and it is not my place to judge if someone random person broke rule 3 on a random community that is not on this instance, just because the person reporting it is). Admin reports should just be this XY user from either this or interacting with this instance is acting inappropriately for the most part.

    The only thing I definitely want blocked is Threads if they actually enable federation. But I think I am not a minority on that one.

    Thanks for listening to my ramblings, I will go ramble somewhere else now :D

      • MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        If you think I am the power tripping police: have you ever seen me mod? Everywhere but in 2 groups which would be completely pointless without basic enforced rules my only rules are don’t break TOS of whatever service we are on. Yea, I will sometimes joke tell someone I am gonna ban them, but I would never actually do so and hopefully they are all very much aware of that.

        If you for some reason think I am referring to you or anyone else here: I am not, I am referring to Reddit mods/admins who are notorious for being just that.

    • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I get reports for things that just the moderators of a certain community should be getting and resolving

      Yeah, Brandon (sorry, idk how to tag on the app lol) mentioned this. I was honestly surprised since I think it burdens instance admins with more responsibilities than they should have (that’s what mods are for, right?). Also, as he mentioned, it’s also a big risk when an admin goes rogue (or gets hacked like in lemmy.world). Definitely agree with his POV. I honestly thought you were limited to the specific instance you’re in. It does have a few pros, but I’m not sure that outweighs the cons?

      The only thing I definitely want blocked is Threads if they actually enable federation. But I think I am not a minority on that one.

      Definitely not the minority. I’m honestly happy even the owner has the same POV as us. I wouldn’t want to force my opinions on anyone, so us being on the same page is a relief.

      Thanks for listening to my ramblings, I will go ramble somewhere else now

      Do go on if you want. Lol. I’m not gonna stop you. :P

      • MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yea, the system leaves a lot to be desired and makes me question if whoever designed it has any experience in moderating things. Hopefully with time it gets improved like everything else :)

        I honestly thought you were limited to the specific instance you’re in.

        You would think thats the case… I hope it doesn’t require something to go south for this to be changed.

        (sorry, idk how to tag on the app lol)

        @CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi should work. I think, it seems to be a bit buggy. Edit: it doesn’t work?

        I’m honestly happy even the owner has the same POV as us

        I don’t own it, I am just an admin, but I did ask the actual owner about it last week and he said we can block it.

        Do go on if you want. Lol. I’m not gonna stop you. :P

        I am busy nuking the little of what is still left of my Reddit accounts so you are safe till another day :D

        • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          @CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi should work. I think, it seems to be a bit buggy. Edit: it doesn’t work?

          Yes it did. Thanks! Sorry I replied late. I was playing. Lol. I usually don’t go on lemmy/reddit when I’m on pc. Does tagging someone auto-populate for you? I’m using liftoff and it doesn’t, unfortunately. I need to type everything including the domain.

          I am busy nuking the little of what is still left of my Reddit accounts so you are safe till another day :D

          Lmao. Carry on then. That’s important work.

          Also, I do know the owner of the instance (not personally, just what his username is). My choice of words sometimes leave a lot to be desired. Sorry if it confuses you.

          • MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Oh no worries at all, I am the queen of late replies. From what I read the autopopulation only works on web so far (Connect doesn’t autopopulate for me either), but even then it is a bit iffy when it actually decides to work and who it actually finds. Would also be nice if you didn’t have to specify domain if you are on the same instance :/

            Important and sad work since its nuking 12 years worth of stuff on 3 accounts. But has to be done as I have no intention of going back at this point (I am just keeping 1 account around because it actually has some stuff that sadly needs to stay up).

            Ahhh ok, just making sure. I don’t wanna claim any ownership where there is none.

            Back kinda on topic tho, in the post you mentioned (I assume its the same one I seen) someone mentioned that there should be a “best of mod reports” community on Lemmy too. There should be a “best of join instance applications” too. I don’t think those are public anywhere, but some of the ones we get make me chuckle.

            • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              There should be a “best of join instance applications” too. I don’t think those are public anywhere, but some of the ones we get make me chuckle.

              It would be fun to have a community for that if it won’t get you guys in trouble lol! There are some who are sensitive about privacy.

              • MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                Would never post anything that can even remotely be related to someones privacy and obviously without usernames. I am more concerned people would make unnecessary new accounts for us to post.

  • Brandon@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I banned someone for reporting mildly offensive stuff after being inflammatory to people on lemmy.world. It’s one thing if someone’s being a butt to request you remove their comments, it’s another to antagonize them and then report them. I don’t know if anything’s been removed as far as posts here.

    • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Nice.

      Honestly thought that since we’re a small group we’d be relatively safe from those. Hey at least we have an entry in the modlog. iusearchlinux admins represent!

      • Brandon@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        For some reason pinning messages gets put in the modlog and anytime we take adminstrator actions, it also shows up. If you report a comment or a post on another instance, it’s elevated to us because we’re the admins of here which I personally do not like but oh well. Everyone here behaves so I’ve only ever had to remove comments from our stinky brethren.

        • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          If you report a comment or a post on another instance, it’s elevated to us because we’re the admins of here

          wait. why? Posts and comments on another instance? you can’t do anything (like delete) those, right? If I understand correctly, admin powers are limited to their own instances (like you can’t ban someone from lemmy.world if the community he’s in is another server, for example). Did I misunderstand or is that really a weird way of distributing reports? that sounds like a lot of reports to sift through, specially if you’re from a big instance.

          • Brandon@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            I can and have removed both comments and posts from lemmy.world due to reports made here. I banned a user from this instance, not lemmy but I don’t know how it handles bans from other instances and I would like to keep it that way. I receive reports about other instances from users made in this one, not from other instances about this one or other instances about other instances.

            Edit: Just confirmed that a post I removed from lemmy.ml is removed for myself while logged out and in another browser, so I am able to remove posts elsewhere. This is a personal fear of mine, as an admin with less than reputable honor could decide one day that they don’t like the word ‘birthday’ for instance and remove anything with that word in it. I understand the idea behind it but humanity has shown that it cannot be responsible enough when granted power.

            It is an intended feature per request.