Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation
Skavau@piefed.social 18 hours agoTo be clear, I’m not personally thinking about Lemmy here specifically. But in any case, however its done - either via the settings, or an easy to official or officially endorsed mod-bot - access to these tools should be easy and well-known for community owners.
If you need tools, find them. If they don’t exist, create them. If you don’t have the skills or time, then don’t volunteer.
Not every would-be moderator of a community has the skills or knowhow to make and/or host these things. Even Reddit now, at its size, lacks some capable tools not consistently covered in automod tools.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
I’m not against any of that.
What I disagree with is that this is a priority. It’s a nice-to-have.
Once mod actions are supported, and an API exists, any imaginable automation can be implemented by anyone with impetus to do so.
As such, the priority of further integration drops drastically and platform developer attention can and should move elsewhere.
Mod tools are best created by the people who use them. Even better when they are created for the needs of a specific community. As such, more advanced features should be deferred until later.
Once communities grow large enough that there are a signifucant number lf moderator-developers, it might be worth creating a generic bot that can be configured as meeded. (As have happebed with reddit, discord, etc.)
Asking for these tools before then, is inefficient, because the people who ideally should be working on it, haven’t shown up yet.
Skavau@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Well I’m thinking in terms of how to ‘shore up’ the fediverse, so to speak. I do think all of the examples in my OP that I’ve given are pretty general and one or more of them would be implemented by most communities the moment they were able to do so.