kersploosh

@kersploosh@lemmy.world

Also known as @kersploosh

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kersploosh,

I assigned you as the moderator to !popculture

Assigning/removing mods is a manual process handled on a case-by-case basis. There is no official policy about removing banned users from their mod roles, though that doesn’t seem unreasonable.

Communities with no mods (or absent/inattentive mods) keep humming along until something brings them to the admin team’s attention. There are hundreds of communities like that on this instance. Lemmy.world does have a Community Team who try to find and address communities that need moderation help. It’s a big task, though.

kersploosh,

You can PM one of us admins about it via Lemmy or Matrix.

If it’s an active community then we’ll pass it on to the rest of the team to see if a new mod can be found. As I type this, my lemmy.world reports dashboard shows 363 open user reports. We need attentive mods in our active communities to handle those; the admin team can’t possibly keep up on our own.

If it’s an inactive community then we will probably just leave it alone. The incremental cost of having one more inactive community on the instance is negligible. On the other hand, intervening has the potential to create trouble if the mod eventually logs in and sees that their community has been changed/locked/removed while they were away.

kersploosh,

Nope. It’s still an open request: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3710

kersploosh,

I added you as a community mod.

@ComradeMiao mentioning you here so you’ll know what happened if/when you come back to Lemmy.

[Request] I would like to take over an abandoned community

!obscuremedia doesn’t have much traction but I’m trying to change that and there are a good amount of subscribers. Unfortunately the only mod seems to have created the community, made one post, and not returned in the ten months since. I’ve messaged them but I’m not hopeful they’ll ever come back to Lemmy to see it....

kersploosh,

I made you the mod. The prior mod (@AAjax) has been inactive for months.

As the other user mentioned, I suggest using a lemmy.world account for moderating lemmy.world communities. When using an account on a remote instance you do not receive the reports from that community.

kersploosh,

I added you as a mod.

@Photographer mentioning you here so you’ll know what happened if/when you come back.

kersploosh, (edited )

Did you change the language settings in your account? It looks like you’re consistent about tagging posts as English. If that language was deselected in your account settings then all of your posts would be hidden when you are logged in.

Edit: This post was tagged as Afaraf. You might want to change that to English or Unspecified. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3880b917-4ec8-44dd-9953-6e0000471169.png

kersploosh,

I discussed it with the community team, and we decided to give you the mod role. !genealogy is yours now!

kersploosh,

I discussed this briefly with the LW community team. Congratulations, you are the new mod of !star_wars.

kersploosh,

From Lemmy you can see the accounts, but usually not their content (see note below). @lowqualityfacts
@georgetakei

Interaction between Lemmy and Mastodon doesn’t work well because the two services structure their content differently. Lemmy is community based and Mastodon is user based. Lemmy doesn’t have a mechanism to follow an individual user, and Mastodon doesn’t have an analog to communities (afaik).

(Note: In the case of these two accounts, some of their toots are visible because they have been pulled into the !tails community as part of an experiment to bridge Lemmy and Mastodon.)

How does banning actually work?

So I was skimming again through the comments of a thread, and saw a comment with 42 upvotes, including mine, and no downvotes, as “removed by a mod”. I was curious about which comment was it and the reason, but looking at the modlog, the only action shown against that account is apparently a mod banning it from the site with...

kersploosh,

What you see in the modlog depends on your role.

  • If you are a regular user, or are not logged in, the modlog shows all actions as performed by “mod” regardless of who did it.
  • If you are a community moderator, you see who performed each action within your community. But you don’t get that level of visibility in other communities or at the instance level (I think).
  • If you are an admin, you see everything: which user performed each removal or ban, in any community, on any federated instance.

The effect of bans and content removals depends on the actor’s role.

  • As @willya mentioned, community mods can only perform community bans.
  • Actions performed by an admin from a remote instance are local to that remote instance. A site ban means you can no longer interact with communities on that instance. If your posts/comments are “removed” they will be hidden from users on that instance but still be visible to users on other instances.
  • Actions performed by an admin on you home instance are global. If you are site banned, or your content is removed, those actions federate to other instances. You are effectively banned everywhere and your removed content is hidden from everyone. (Of course this assumes everything federates properly.)
kersploosh,

You are correct that my first point was incorrect. I just learned that the level of detail in the modlog is configurable and varies by instance. For example, if I look at literature.cafe all modlog actions are performed by “mod.” On lemmy.world, though, some of those same actions are performed by “admin.”

[META] Yet another change in community moderation

Hello everyone. I apologize for the rollercoaster ride in this community over the past week and a half. I have one more change to announce: @THE_MASTERMIND has been removed as the community moderator. This is in response to multiple private complaints from community members, as well as behaviors inside and outside this community...

kersploosh,

Yes, Blaze has been unbanned from the community.

kersploosh,

I only see Blaze in the modlog, and that user has been unbanned. If you are aware of other users that are somehow not in the modlog then let me know.

kersploosh,

At this point I think I’ll leave those posts deleted. OP changed the post titles before deleting, then subsequently deleted their account and all comments, so the discussions in those posts are full of holes.

kersploosh, (edited )

It is odd that threads.net appears on our instances page, while the same is not true for other Lemmy instances which have not blocked Threads. Lemmy.world is federated with Threads by default simply because it is not on our instance block list. I do not believe our instance has done anything special to force a link with Threads. I mentioned it in our admin chat and will update this post if I learn anything.

However, even with threads.net listed on our instances page, Threads does not seem to work with Lemmy. I am able to search and view Mastodon user profiles from lemmy.world, but it does not work for any of the Threads test profiles.

Edit: The lemmy.world database has no records for a person on threads.net. Our best guess is that a Threads user tried to interact with lemmy.world. Perhaps the process got far enough for our instance to recognize threads.net and add it to our instances list, but not far enough to create a record of the user in our DB.

kersploosh,

sh.itjust.works explicitly blocks Threads. They held a vote among the local users: sh.itjust.works/post/11308397

kersploosh,

It’s in the “Blocked Instances” section, where it should be.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/add7506e-d7f1-410f-a4ac-d852e29b5e90.png

kersploosh,

Done. You are now the new mod of !lemmyapps.

On a related note, I recommend using to a lemmy.world account to moderate a lemmy.world community. Reports do not federate across instances Lemmy bug , so you will not see reports that may be created in your community. If you decide to create a lemmy.world account you should now be able to give it mod rights by yourself. If it doesn’t work then let me know and I can help. Sometimes adding/removing mod rights is buggy across instances, too.

kersploosh,

Done.

kersploosh,

Spoiler alert: the drain is just a straight pipe to a bucket below the counter.

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