Saw a post about a user saying he enjoys reading the modlogs for some reason. So I went ahead and checked it out which got me thinking…
Have we deleted/censored anything in this instance yet? Have we banned anyone yet?
Anyone willing to take one for the team/instance?
(The last line was a joke. Don’t ban me plis.)
For some reason pinning messages gets put in the modlog and anytime we take adminstrator actions, it also shows up. If you report a comment or a post on another instance, it’s elevated to us because we’re the admins of here which I personally do not like but oh well. Everyone here behaves so I’ve only ever had to remove comments from our stinky brethren.
If you report a comment or a post on another instance, it’s elevated to us because we’re the admins of here
wait. why? Posts and comments on another instance? you can’t do anything (like delete) those, right? If I understand correctly, admin powers are limited to their own instances (like you can’t ban someone from lemmy.world if the community he’s in is another server, for example). Did I misunderstand or is that really a weird way of distributing reports? that sounds like a lot of reports to sift through, specially if you’re from a big instance.
I can and have removed both comments and posts from lemmy.world due to reports made here. I banned a user from this instance, not lemmy but I don’t know how it handles bans from other instances and I would like to keep it that way. I receive reports about other instances from users made in this one, not from other instances about this one or other instances about other instances.
Edit: Just confirmed that a post I removed from lemmy.ml is removed for myself while logged out and in another browser, so I am able to remove posts elsewhere. This is a personal fear of mine, as an admin with less than reputable honor could decide one day that they don’t like the word ‘birthday’ for instance and remove anything with that word in it. I understand the idea behind it but humanity has shown that it cannot be responsible enough when granted power.
It is an intended feature per request.