Comment on Mods, what tips or etiquette do you recommend for reporting?

• walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Blocking spam is not selfish, no.

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not sure I’d call it selfish. There are users with particularly distasteful opinions that I prefer to downvote when I see them expressed. If I blocked them, then I wouldn’t be able to help shape the community in a positive manner.

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If I blocked them, then I wouldn’t be able to help shape the community in a positive manner.

    Yeah, I feel like this is an important aspect that many users miss.

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• Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s fine to do once you’ve reported it: you’ve done your part, there’s no value still seeing the post it’s gonna get removed anyway.

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But what about future posts from the same account? If I’ve blocked the account, I can’t report posts I don’t see.

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• vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this not a slightly selfish action? It solves the problem for you, but doesn’t make the community better for everyone. I feel like blocking users should be reserved for issues like harassment, not spam.

  This is an aspect that I had not considered. Even thinking about it now leaves me unsure of the best way forward.

  Specifically, whilst it’s a valid argument that blocking the user only solves this for me, and not blocking would help me see if the issue was dealt with, I feel that leaving the user free to roam across my screen is impacting me directly and if I’m not a moderator in a community, it’s not my place to second guess their decision to leave such a user and post in place.

  In other words, I’m stating to a moderator that I think that this post is spam and should be dealt with accordingly, but if you leave it alone, that’s your choice.

  I moderate several communities outside of the fediverse and spam in my communities is a one-strike ban. That’s not what everyone does.

  Having now thought through this again, now in more detail, I’m comfortable with blocking the user.

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