Just an FYI, I generally ignore any reports that aren’t hate speech or severe incivility. As far as spam goes as long as it’s not on my server I ignore it unless it’s done by one user and I can remove all their content with a few clicks.
It would be cool if one could choose where the report goes.
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I noticed that starting a few weeks ago. Not really sure what the root cause is. Theories I’ve got:
- I’m less excited about what’s here now that I’ve been here a while, leading me to perceive stuff as lower quality
- Everyone’s less excited now that they’ve been here a while, leading to a reduction in quality
- Bad actors are gaming the system
Unfortunately, it’s my suspicion that all of the above are true and interplaying. However, I also landed from a web search for how to do something in Vim and found the places I used to go EVEN WORSE, which leads me to this current expectation: we’re going to have to ride this out until moderation tools improve and the communities we inhabit experience more organic growth. The threadiverse experienced an explosion of users it really wasn’t ready for when Reddit announced its API changes. A lot of us are here to stay, permanently, but the dips in active users of late are reflections of people who don’t want to put up with bugs, or otherwise view central features of federation and defederation as anti features (I view it as an excellent thing that any instance can have !news scoped to news relevant to their instance. Midwest social can have news about the midwest, slrpnk can have news about environmentalism, and Lemmy world can have news about the world. I don’t actually think all communities named “news” should aggregate together by default)
I’m confused, do reports not go to the mods of the community the report was made in? Or are these all from communities you moderate?
They go to nearly everyone.
If I on instance a report a post on instance b made by a user on instance c, all three instances’ admins will receive the report, as well as the community on instance b.
It’s kind of a mess, and definitely overkill.
Man, I really want Lemmy to succeed, but the more I learn about how things work behind the scenes the more I worry… Hopefully the developers can deal with these problems before/if there’s another major influx of new users.
Mod tools are, I think, the biggest need. Lemmy as it stands as a product (sorry, using my software industry terms, I know us out here in the real-world find “product” a gross corporate buzzword and “project” is less gross) is in the Proof of Value (POV) phase. A lot of us got here and immediately started using it like it was ready for prime time because… Of the things that were alternatives to what we’d been using, it was the most ready for prime time.
I’m really hopeful for the future, but as it stands moderation tools are both too noisy, and too rudimentary
