Mod tools are pretty limited.
We have a queue of reported posts and reported comments, from there it’s a manual lookup of user history in their profile and on the public modlog.
For actions, we can remove comments and posts, lock posts, ban users temporarily or permanently, feature posts in the community, and promote users to mods.
Removed as a duplicate. Op beat you by one hour!
For local, lemmy.world users, yeah. I think the confounding factor is federation, but like I say, I raised the issue and we have people way smarter than me!
Yup. In 90% of cases the answer is “don’t engage and block them” but not enough people do that.
There were several posted here that were removed for misinformation.
Makes sense, non-viable “babies” are being delivered instead of aborted, infant mortality goes up.
Looking at some of their threads, the trolling type behavior seemed directed at users who were already fairly antagonistic to them to begin with, then it turned in to trolling back and forth all the way down.
I asked in our Discord. I think the limiting factor is federation. I’m not sure how it’s possible to rate limit things in a federated environment.
Fortunatley we have smarter people than me around!
“please stop replying because I feel compelled to say something in response.”
Modding at that point kind of becomes:
I’d rather be on Snoopy’s side than Lucy’s. ;)
There are multiiple Stein Stans in the community who report anything remotely anti-Stein, even (especially?) when it’s true.
Well, it’s always been left leaning, look at .ml ;)
Well, yeah, and I did that when I raised the issue with the other mods and admins multiple times. ;)
This needs to be marked as another case in point for all the people who want to argue it’s not a genocide.
Oh very much so, which is why I, and other mods, were paying very close attention to what they were doing.
Reports fall into two categories:
“Oh, this guy again, can we ban them yet?”
and:
“Oh, god, it’s the person who reports everything…”
The weird part is in the latter case, you can’t just ignore ALL their reports, no matter how much you want to, because there is that 1 in 10 chance they’re right. LOL.
As long as it’s not a non-sensical response and seems to fit the comment chain, I don’t see an inherent problem there.
Example:
“Well, we agree to disagree.” full stop. Discussion ended. No, I don’t have an issue with that.
Yeah, the typical line crossers, racism, bigotry, hatred, genocide denial, etc. get you on the fast track to a ban and they avoided all of that.
Makes sense, non-viable “babies” are being delivered instead of aborted, infant mortality goes up.