Asking because I get reports I make, it would seem rather silly to me if I can’t report misconduct because I’m on my own instance.

Edit: so the answer is yes, another user kindly helped me verify by reporting my test post in the community on my instance. It looks like it sends the report to the relevant people just also sends it to my local admin account for whatever reason lol.

  • @joe
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    You know, it’s surprisingly vague even in the official documentation.

    Let’s test it out. Create a post on your instance, and then make a comment on that post, and I’ll go report them both as “testing” and we’ll see if you get notified.

    Link them here so I can find them.

    • @tool
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      You know, it’s surprisingly vague even in the official documentation.

      You just described literally all of Lemmy’s documentation.

      I had to read the source code for Lemmy to find out what API endpoint to hit, how it worked, and what to expect on return for a script that I was writing. You need to do that for some documented API endpoints as well. Calling it “vague” is a nice way to put it.

    • @[email protected]
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      I have no idea what reporting does. Not even if it is sent. I tried reporting some nudity content in a community, but it was broken en 2 apps, and took a very long time from the browser…

      • @joe
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        41 year ago

        What do mean? On the standard lemmy site it should be the 3 dot menu, then the flag (aka, report) on any comment or post.

        What took a long time for you?

        • @[email protected]
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          Finding the report button wasn’t hard. Sending it was. It took like 30 seconds+ of loading to send it.

          • @joe
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            Ohhhh… Well that might be an issue with your specific instance being unresponsive. The reports I just did, however, worked pretty much how you would expect, so it’s not likely to be a lemmy-ui or backend bug.

  • higgs
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    211 year ago

    Can confirm that you get a notification as a mod. Had my first report today.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      From reports from users on another instance? I guess I’m just concerned because when I report content on another instance my admin account gets a report notification on my instance. Obviously I can’t do anything about content on other instances so I just want to make sure the right people are also getting my reports.

      Edit: ok another user just tried it on one of my posts, it looks like it works as expected, I just also get my own reports sent to my admin.

      • conciselyverbose
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        I think the idea is that as an admin, you might also wish to know bad actors your users are exposed to to allow you to consider whether there are instances you want to block.

      • ChlorineAddict
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        If I were to venture a guess, it would be that if you receive excess reports for a particular user on your instance causing issues on other instances you can boot said user for being a nuisance stopping the problem at the source rather than just the impacted instances cleaning up the reported content with no way to stop the reoccurring problem short of blocking your entire instance.

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    61 year ago

    In previous cases on my instances, I received a copy of the report, as did the moderator from the server hosting the instance.