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Getting mod alerts for microblogs -- how does that work? (fedia.io)

submitted 5 months ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/fedia@fedia.io

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As mod of the Privacy mag I got an alert for this “thread”:

https://fedia.io/m/privacy/p/1332654/Hey-what-s-your-password-Nice-try-My-password-is-Tuta-MailDoesntLetThatHappen

I don’t quite have a handle on k/mbin’s relationship with microblogs. Seems bizarre that (IIUC) someone somewhere in the fedi used a privacy hashtag, which was then enough for the status to appear in the privacy mag microblog timeline, which then leads to a mod having power over it.

What does it even mean to moderate that? I guess the concrete question is, if I press the “reject” button, what happens? Does that remove a copy of a microblog status that is cached on fedia.io? If yes, isn’t it strange that a mod has the power to cancel a microblog that happens to use a hashtag that incidentally matches the name of a mag that the mod controls? Or does it just remove the content specifically from the privacy microblog timeline, and not the timelines of other hashtags used in the same status (e.g. security)?

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[–] jerry@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Microblogs are basically all the regular fediverse posts (from mastodon et al) that are tagged with the hashtag(s) associate with the magazine.

If you hit the accept button on a report, it will remove the thing that was reported (post, thread, comment, etc), and if you hit reject, it just closes the report.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the clarification.. that was a bit counter intuitive. I went back and approved the report.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how it works but if you can somehow prevent all their posts from showing up in m/privacy without blocking them instance-wide it seems like a good idea to me. Spammers getting tolerated on instances one doesn't want to block completely is pretty annoying.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 points 5 months ago

I clicked “reject”, but it’s not even clear what that action means when I am looking at someone’s report that is attached to the alert. Does that mean I am rejecting the alert, or rejecting the content that is being alerted? It’s a shitty UI for not having any clarity on this.