Nice feature.

As an aside, we recommend that all LW communities have at least two moderators so there is some redundancy in resolving reports themselves, and to reduce the workload on individual moderators. We know this can be harder for smaller communities, but this is just a recommendation.

Sounds like a reasonable recommendation.

The upcoming v20.0 lemmy release should fix remote moderators not receiving almost all of the reports.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4744

Then I'll be able to moderate [email protected] actively from my programmings.dev account and finally abandon this account for the time being.

Thanks for this. I never noticed I had a 3 week old report open on a LW community I modded because it never federated with my instance.

What's a "remote moderator"?

On the multiple mods thing. It’s also worth having multiple mods in multiple time zones so there is overlap.

Is the bot broken or was this just a test?

There were two brand new reports and I got this:

Excellent news! It’s good to hear you’ve designed a workaround to help for outstanding stale reports. Keeping up with moderation is tough.

One thing is unclear to me (and perhaps because I’m still bleary-eyed from sleep), but do these stale open moderator reports go to the assigned Community Mods only? If they persist without action for some time, would they be extended to other mods or admins?

Good idea to double up on mods. I added a new mod to Artshare, and looking for another for Cooking.

Good feature! Notified me that we had a report that I otherwise wouldn't have noticed!

Whelp, I considered 8h to be long for addressing issues, but I have no life... Classic mod style 😎

All I ask is, if you see something, flag it. That doesn't mean I will always take action, but it is always appreciated just the same.

A good mod is an invisible mod to almost all users. In fact, I really wish we could institute this distinction as a part of Lemmy code and culture, (but it might be untenable with people of different personalities). I wish I did not have a mod tag by default. If I choose to act as a mod, I have the option to add the tag.

In a perfect world, if a mod interacts with users directly in a conversation, they would be blocked from escalating privileges to the mod tag and taking actions against the user. They would be required to keep an extra active mod for the community, with a unique history and IP address that would be able to address any flags they or others create. Such a system would solve a lot of bad-mod complaints that are universal to link aggregation platforms. This requirement would force objective judicial thinking that is more resistant to biases and emotions. It would also press active communities to expand their pool of franchised users by adding extra mods, likely increasing post quality and frequency by those that feel a little more motivated to lead in active posting. The last aspect I can think of off the cuff is that it would likely require an extra layer of Admin notifications and awareness in very rare instances where multiple mods have engaged within a single conversation and then it has become an actionable issue, then it would require admin actions. Really, applying such a system to everyone except the root admin owner would be a way to use checks and balances to ensure healthy balanced oversight in all instances. It is essentially rejecting the persistent root super user login and instituting a sudo type escalation layer for mods and admin but on a more social level.

As an aside, we recommend that all LW communities have at least two moderators so there is some redundancy in resolving reports themselves, and to reduce the workload on individual moderators.

I'd like to add that, while it's not bad to add someone with moderating experience, you should see how many communities that person already moderates. I get asked to moderate new communities sometimes and I always have to turn them down because my voluntary workload is heavy enough as it is.

how about reporting mods for pandering to populist ideas and banning people for comment that doesn't alight with their own personal ideology?