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I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important. I propose creating a quarterly pinned post on Lemmy asking users for complaints and suggestions. This way, developers can better understand the community’s biggest pain points and what to focus on. The goal is to provide constructive feedback so developers can prioritize the most pressing issues.

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  • hitagi (ani.social)@ani.socialEnglish
    43·
    1 year ago

    The mod tools are too basic and barebones. I’d appreciate if we can get:

    • Post approval system for new or low-karma accounts (it can be karma for local communities)
    • Reporting system with multiple options (very hard to implement in the fediverse as everyone has different rules) so that the reports are sent to the proper channels. Admins shouldn’t have to deal with community-specific rules (for example, “memes only on mondays”).
    • Automoderator (these might already exist? I have not tried them.)

    I don’t know if I should split this comment into three or not but they’re some general suggestions to address the complaint of basic mod tools.

      • hitagi (ani.social)@ani.socialEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I did say the complaint:

        The mod tools are too basic and barebones

        I also gave three ideas that are (1) manually done by mods/admins, (2) manually done by users, (3) automated by mods/admins.

        On a small subreddit I moderate, we have automod automatically queue posts at a certain age. If your account is less than a day old, your post is hidden for public viewing while the mods manually approve it. We had to deal with a lot of spam bots and this was a good solution for us.

        I believe the way the report feature works on Lemmy is that it sends out to the mods of the community and all the admins. It doesn’t work quite well when I don’t know the rules of a community. “No memes on mondays”, is that really something I (as an admin) should be worried about? That’s not my job.

        I hope this clears things up.