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(Lemmy) transparency problem: users not signaled of actions against them (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/bugs@sopuli.xyz

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A moderator deleted one of my posts for being off topic. I received no notification. It’s mere chance that I realized my post was silently removed, at which point I checked to modlog where a reason was given.

Users can filter sitewide modlogs on their own account to see the actions against them (great!) -- but there should also be a notification.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Myself and many other moderators share this concern

If users don't know why their content was removed

they won't know what they did wrong, in cases of justified removals
they won't be following up, in cases of error removals

Part of the difficulty is having the solution work within a federated system, but it's not impossible

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

I was recently blocked on a community, I have a good idea of why(I'm sure they thought I was being a dick for agreeing with someone saying that a wider war with Russia would probably be a bad thing) but there was no real indication that I had even been blocked until I happened to be looking through my comment history and noticed the blocked symbol next to my name.
An automated message saying I've been blocked, by which community, and with a space for someone to maybe put a reason in, would have been nice.

[–] OneMansTrash@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just to add to the topic of transparency: I've noticed that lemmy appears to censor the B word, but there's no mods checking the content (from what I can tell), it just auto changes the word to say "removed."

Oddly enough, the B word seems to be the only word (swear or otherwise) that's censored in such a way.

Fuck shit ass cock dick

removed (B word)

Genuinely can't tell if this is in error, or if there's someone higher in the chain that got called a removed and is taking it really personally.

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mods here, similar to on Reddit, seem to be the type that makes being a mod their whole world. They go on righteous crusades for their various causes quite often.

It is a stark reminder that the Lemmy janitors have the same delusions of power that the Reddit janitors had. With the massive population increase caused by an activity that made a lot of Reddit mods angry, you have a lot of that type here.

It is what it is. I just tend to ignore votes and censoring. Or more laugh at it.

Of my two dogs, the bitch is my favorite.

[–] soloActivist@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

FWIW, I started a thread about the B word in the slur filter here:

https://links.hackliberty.org/post/146478

Most importantly, I think authors should be notified when their message is edited by someone other than the author.

cc: @OneMansTrash@lemmy.ml

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

There is an automod bot that does it.

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