“moderation duties” and “regular participants” in a forum system have such different use cases, it makes no sense to try to make it work with the software itself.
It would be better/faster/easier to simply build a separate tool that can be useful for moderators, instead of trying to shoehorn it in the existing API. But I don’t really think that this is something that really bothers people enough, given that last time I asked if I could get 20 people interested to sponsor the development of the moderation tool, and to this day only one person showed up.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
We are working on new moderation features all the time, for example 1.0 will correctly federate instance bans which is quite complicated to get right. There will also be a plugin system which allows for much more flexible mod tools. Its just that our time is very limited for all the work that needs to be done on a project with over 50k active users.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
This comment was not supposed to be a huge critique of Lemmy, more like a comparison.
Everybody is aware that you do what you can with the resources you have.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Fair enough, its just a bit strange that this particular critique comes up regularly.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I just gave it a try, this is what the moderation panel looks like on Piefed:
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Maybe this makes it more clear