I can’t emphasize enough how bad Lemmy’s moderation tools are. It’s not just that they’re abysmally anemic (including that you can’t perform moderator actions on someone in your community without a comment of theirs to click the context menu on? what??). It’s not just that reports don’t synchronize correctly across instances (i.e. if you want to moderate a community on another instance, you’re at a severe disadvantage). It’s that they’re wildly fragmented, presented just all over the place like some kind of scavenger hunt.
- As I said previously, the context menu of a comment is the only way you can ban and unban users (except that you actually can ban them if you use the API directly).
- Moderation has zero hierarchy, so 1) any moderator if they want to can perform a Night of the Long Knives and become the sole moderator (fine for now when admins can quickly intervene, but impossibly stupid if Lemmy ever became bigger), and 2) every moderator has access to all of the tools (including appointing other admins).
- You can’t view a list of banned users and unban them from there; this gets back into point 1 where you need to dig up the last comment on your community (not easily if you removed it) to unban them.
- On Voyager (third-party mobile app), I have more tools than I do on desktop, which indicates to me that the tools are there in the API but just aren’t exposed on desktop for some god-forsaken reason.
- I literally can’t even view a per-community modlog on desktop. I have to go out and find the Lemmy.World modlog (usually from a search engine) and then filter by action and pray that it was recent enough that I can find it in the rest of the heap.
- Oh, but don’t worry. There’s a third-party tool for viewing the modlog, which is just ??? What the fuck?? How is this in some random tool you have to go searching for instead of in Lemmy proper? And even then, this tool has its flaws.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
You’re on LW, newer versions of Lemmy are better in that regard.
tesseract.dubvee.org is a better frontend for moderation. Allows you to see votes as a mod, and ban users who never commented or posted.
There’s an orange “modlog” button in the sidebar of every community that shows the community modlog?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Whoops! I didn’t even notice the Modlog because (at least for me) it’s tucked away at the very bottom of the sidebar and nestled between the list of mods and some statistics I don’t really care too much about. :P Genuinely my bad, though; I should’ve looked harder. Appreciate it now that I can finally see it!
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 days ago
Don’t get too excited. It seems to be missing a bunch of stuff.
I don’t really know the explanation for why the Lemmy API seems to just randomly drop stuff out of the modlog if it’s more than 5-10 entries long, but you’ll have to search for the exact stuff you’re specifically looking for a lot of the time. Maybe I am misunderstanding what I’m seeing but I’ve gotten the strong impression that’s what I’m seeing. It’s similar to how looking at a user’s profile randomly drops comments out after a certain time and just switches to posts only, so it’s hard to search through for specific stuff you’re looking for. Apparently that is going to be fixed in 0.20.
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
The Tesseract front end is just completely superior for moderation imo. It took me a little bit of getting used to, but it is clean