The kind of people who would join this place are also the kind that would block ads.

Bit Shift Variations in C minor

Mods: Get every report in the community and can temp/perm ban you from the community and/or remove the comment

Admins (community’s instance and reported user’s instance) Can do anything a moderator can, and can ban you from their instance (bans you from all communities on that instance as well) When this happens, you will essentially be shadowbanned from every user on that instance, which in some cases can be a blessing as some instances have some VERY harassing users so they will no longer be able to bother you any more after the ban.

Admins (your instance) They have access to the server your account is on, so they can do anything to you. Being banned from your own instance is like having your account seized. Your content will stay up (if they choose not to delete it) and you won’t be able to log in. You won’t be given a chance to appeal so you’re basically locked out.

Admins (other instances) They won’t get your report but if they see your comment and find it particularly distasteful, they may choose to ban you from their instance, and you can bet your bottom dollar they won’t be accepting your request if you ever try to sign up there.

They go to every party, so if you see rule-breaking content, even if it’s from a moderator (ESPECIALLY if it’s from a moderator) then report it. Reports are the only communication that certain parties get into how things are being run, so it can really kickstart diplomacy efforts if someone, a community, or an instance is being openly abusive. Exception: some apps will allow you to choose where your reports go.

Up + Down. That way you can’t use trolling/harassment to massage the perception of a post.

Put it this way: Do you want the nazis who downvote everything left of Hitler to have any sway over a conversation?

Please no I hate hashtags with a passion.

Don’t they have something better to do with their time than posting on lemmy all day? … … … [drags on water bottle]

Yeah that’s understandable. I’ll avoid that language in the future. I changed it to very fascist, means the same thing anyway.

A person on reddit once cried to me that “blocking is only for when people are harassing you” and I just laughed and blocked them. If reddit’s mods/admins would rather ban people calling out nazis than the nazis themselves, than you’re well in your right to so for yourself.

On the other hand blocks/mutes are there for a reason, and I can’t think of a good reason outside digital self-harm to remove them.

Mastodon’s blocking can fuck right off. Very fascist neoliberals there routinely use it to censor anyone with an opposing viewpoint and because being blocked literally locks you out of content people are literally afraid to post anything lest they offend the creator’s very fragile egos.

As a result the entire platform is basically you just shouting into the void where people who like you have a huge incentive not to engage. You want to know how how many conversations have had even a response? 2. Two. My entire time there, two times. People either agree with what you say and like it or they don’t and block you on sight. Nobody wants to risk being left out so they just keep to themselves.

Community browser is a sure fire way to get a lot of dead comms with like 1 post.

Alright good to know that it’s a thing already.

Seconded. I caught a BS removal on a certain comm and I just assumed the admins would have been OK with it. Would have appealed it if I had the chance and the admins probably would have taken my side. Right now there’s way too much incentive for mods to abuse their power with little pushback. Sure you could make a thread about it on the instance’s meta page but that would just spark drama and that’s the last thing a good faith user wants to have to deal with.

A private “report community” option that goes straight to the admins (of yours and their instance) would be great step to break the chill that comes from speaking out against an abusive mod/team while also avoiding the drama that comes from callout threads.

I find footnotes are extremely clumsy and break the pacing of the sentence. For example, I read your footnote first, and didn’t get the context.

The problem with that is that you can’t

and it just looks awful, both in the markdown, and especially when rendered as a comment.

Compare the almost seamless implementation in my example to the raw output of this comment.

We have the ability to block instances but that won’t work on commenters from instances that are known to be problematic. There are some instances I just want to flat out DNI on due to them being consistently unpleasant and adding nothing to the conversation, right now my only option is to manually block their users and get myself banned from the problem instance so I stop showing up for them. Not ideal.

Nothing says “badass hacker” quite like insecurely cyberattacking a community-based platform.

Huh, neat. So that’s what that option is for.

I want to be able to search my own comments. Sometimes I want to pull up an old comment to prove I said/didn’t say something or find a meme that I posted awhile ago. Being able to search other user’s comments though would be kind of eeeeh, might be used for harassment.