The newest release of Threativore allows admins to flag users with warning flags, which don’t lead to any immediate consequences, but they allow admins to keep track of potentially problematic users and also a way to send a warning to those users that doesn’t come from any specific admin account.
This was triggered by having a few problem users in our instance which had bad takes low-key enough to not cop an immediate ban but kept popping up in reports and moderation. In isolation any of those things might make an admin give the benefit of a doubt, but when seen holistically, it makes things more obvious.
Currently it only supports a warning flag, but I can easily add more if people have ideas. These flags can accumulate between admins and you can always see what others have added.
I’m hoping people can use this functionality more liberally than bans, as it will provide a warning to users for bad behaviour, and once someone gets more than 2 or 3 it would be a good chance to take more significant actions.
Flags can also be set silently (i.e. without informing the user) and also with an expiration date, if wished.
Are the flags public or is this just a convenient way to obfuscate the modlog
There’s no mod action for flags, so no.
Are you at least gonna make it public?
The bot? It’s FOSS.
I mean the tagging is that public. I think its critically important that it is.
I don’t agree. This is information between admins to keep track of potentially problem users. This is no different than talking to other admins in a private chat. Just easier to organize.
So its the fediverse secret police.
Lol get some perspective mate.
I’d imagine any ban that occurs would be actually public like usual, this is kinda like tagging imo.
Yeah but I think all moderation actions being public is important. Having hidden mod actions seems like its directly in opposition to the open nature of the fediverse.
I agree, really wish lemmy had a native warning function built-in that sent a message to the modlog and an anonymous mod message to the user they can’t reply to which warned them of their action. Mastodon has a warning function natively, why doesn’t Lemmy?
I’d love that people add this functionality to lemmy directly so I don’t have to maintain it externally.
I’ve heard the devs are quite open to pull requests so it shouldn’t be too hard to get implemented if u wanna go write the code.
