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How does moderation work on Lemmy? (aussie.zone)

submitted 6 months ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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If a comment or post gets reported, I can think of a number of different groups who might see that report:

The moderators of the community in which it was posted.
The admins of the instance hosting the community (call it instance X).
The admins of the reporter's instance (call it Y).
The admins of the poster's instance (call it Z).

Do all of these see the report? Only some subset? Some other group I'm not thinking of?

And if it is all/multiple of these, how does the actioning work? If the report's admin removes a post, does that mean nobody from instance Y can see it, but everyone else still can, or does it remove it more widely? Same for Z's admins and Z users. If X admins remove it, I presume that means nobody at all will see it, is this correct? And would a mod approving it means that admins of various instances will then not see the report, or does it stay in their queue separately?

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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I asked a similar question a month ago and it seems like reports go everywhere. I guess it makes sense when instances have different rules and communities might as well

https://leminal.space/post/4351930

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

omg I love your instance name. (But I hate that font :O)

But actually I think I did see that post, and the responses in it were probably part of what was bouncing around my brain that led me to ask this post. Because my main curiosity was less around who reports go to (I asked that to make sure I hadn't missed something, more than for any other reason), but around what happens when reports are actioned by one of those groups, but not others.

[–] Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Maybe it's different on other instances, but here on feddit a report gets "closed" as soon as someone resolves it. Doesn't matter who did it. So if a comment on my community gets reported both I and the admin see that, and depending on who's faster one of us can either delete the reported content or simply mark it as read. In both cases it's no longer pending. The reports work like an inbox, so if I really wanted to I could double check resolved reports and delete them manually afterwards. Never saw the need to do that though. Im sure the other way around is possible as well.