Comment on [Open to workshopping] PSA for reporting best practices

ManinJustStartHere@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No. Unlike reddit, when you send a report, it shows who reported it.

  This has the advantage of the mod being able to respond to the reporter to ask clarification or provide explanation, but it also allows malicious mod action.

  I suppose you could create another account if you need to report something without using this name.

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  • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have also seen temp bans put in for users abusing the report feature to win arguments

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That seems like a pretty big oversight on the Lemmy development side of things. There should, at the very least, be an option to submit a report either anonymously or to have it tied to your account. A disclaimer could be included that anonymous reports cannot be responded to in case that is a concern for users.

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    • spujb@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s probably not so much an oversight as a natural consequence of the open nature of Lemmy. Same reason DMs on here are not technically private. Even if you implemented an anonymous report feature, instance admins could probably identify the user easily.

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    • ManinJustStartHere@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think itwill make a user abusive the report feature unless the report system can automatically determine if comment or post break the rules

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  • ManinJustStartHere@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think i need another account if i report something that breaking the rules.

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• recursive_recursion@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  as one of the instance mod/admin’s I’d say that evidence would help expedite the report process

  But depending on what the thing being reported is sometimes evidence isn’t needed

  • for blatantly disturbing/awful things, evidence isn’t need for reporting a post/comment

  • for anything else that someone might find subtly “off”, 2 pieces of evidence could help us figure out what’s wrong

    • as a systems analyst having as much information to determine what happened and how things got to this way can help others and myself determine what the best way forward could be
    • for example some users might not be need to be banned, just a warning/clarification could help based on my own interactions

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