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Is there a way to ban a non-commenter who keeps abusing the report system? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world to c/moderators@lemmy.world
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As far as I’m aware, mods can only access banning functionality on user comments.

If someone in a community keeps pestering mods with BS reports, but that user has not posted a comment in the community, is there a way to ban that person?

I can’t seem to find anything in the UI to handle this use case.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know there is, because the mod of 30rock banned me for down voting a couple of their bad memes when they posted like 20 at once.

I have no idea how to do it tho.

If it's just a couple accounts doing it, message that admin account they created I guess.

Maybe DM the 30rock mod? When I was trying to figure out what was going on, their modlog looks like they ban anyone that down votes without being subscribed. So apparently they're the subject matter expert.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The new hobby of mods chasing people for not voting the way they like is nasty

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's what you get when you allow moderators to see what people up/downvote. Unfortunately, this is simply human behavior - and you have to implement things with the expectation that they are going to be abused.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

At this moment, only admins can, no? I'm a mod and unable to see votes

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Does lemmy show vote history?

[–] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Not directly but since it's federated information it would be trivial to extract or view such as running a 1 user instance and viewing the sql database, and theres likely tools now to automate that

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some people put in the legwork.

There is a very active account that mods a couple big communities. I saw them acting like a jackass and down voted like 4-5 of their comments in a chain, got a DM "informing" me that he could see votes...

They're not an admin, just a mod and on a normal instance.

I legitimately don't know why admins are cool with him, but they are. So I just blocked him.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

They probably asked admins

[–] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 1 month ago

Yes but only to admins. They must be an admin with an alt account

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Some alternatives UI like Photon or Tesseract allow for it

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks. I’ll take a look!

[–] Xylight@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Photon actually doesn't have this currently, but it's a good idea, as I moved appointing moderators to community settings. I'll add this soon!