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"Breaks Community Rules" is no longer a valid report reason in lemy.lol (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by iso@lemy.lol to c/meta@lemy.lol

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When the reason for the report is a generic sentence, it is necessary to read the entire comment thread to understand the full context. Therefore, please write, even if it is just 2 words, why the content you are reporting should be removed. From now on, reports of this type will be ignored (except for some cases).

Also, while we are on the subject of reports and content preferences, I would like to add that this instance does not attempt to appeal to mainstream opinion. Content that does not align with your political preferences may not be removed. However, I am aware that this policy attracts trolls and I try to intervene as much as I can.

If you want a more refined instance, you can try: beehaw.org, lemmy.blahaj.zone, dubvee.org, lemmy.ca, piefed.social etc.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think that might be a voyager app thing. When reporting, you pick from a predefined list, of which "Breaks community rules" is one.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yes, that's what I was guessing too.

Is there a way to show community and instance rules while reporting in applications? If I remember correctly, Mlem used to extract them from the description, but I guess they gave up. Could there be a standard for this? Anything I can do?

/cc @eric@lemmy.ml @sjmarf@lemmy.ml @aeharding@vger.social

[–] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Mlem dev here. Mlem has some logic that looks through the community/instance description, and tries to extract the rules list. If it's able to find the rules, it displays them as options in the report sheet:

At the moment, Mlem fails to recognize the formatting that lemy.lol uses. I've added a fix for this, so it'll work properly for lemy.lol in the next version. The "he's just a chill guy" image was confusing our parsing logic :)

It would be nice if there was a standardized way to do this, I agree. Reddit gave communities a dedicated "rules list" field, separate from the description field, which would have made this easier.

[–] iso@lemy.lol 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the info and the fix, I thought you removed it :) I'm leaving it as is now.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 1 points 1 month ago

Could there be a standard for this?

Something like https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3324 probably. I'm thinking an array of reasons, where the type of reason can be 'localSite', 'remoteSite' or 'community'

[–] aeharding@vger.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The reason I added "breaks community rules" is so that admins specifically would know to ignore the report and let community moderators resolve it.

When an admin resolves a report, does it go away for mods too? If so that would probably be fixed in lemmy. Admins should only be concerned about enforcing instance rules.. otherwise it would be WAY too much work for admins.

@iso@lemy.lol

[–] iso@lemy.lol 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, it's used as a generic message rather than whether it actually violates community guidelines. Frankly, Mlem's approach seems better to me.

I haven't tested it, but it would be pretty bad if reports was also removed from mods when the admin resolved it.

[–] aeharding@vger.social 2 points 1 month ago

Frankly, Mlem's approach seems better to me.

I don't disagree, but mlem's solution is a hacky workaround for the underlying problem. A much more universal and consistent solution would be if Lemmy exposed a list of reasons, which could be edited by community mods and instance admins.

[–] icegladiator@lemy.lol 6 points 1 month ago

Glad to know that this instance maintains a hands off approach to moderating content