With recent events hilighting the value of quality moderation, it got me to consider: How can we help you out?

What steps, considerations, encouragements or warnings would you give the userbase regarding best practices for using the report feature (or other interraction with mods)? Reporting less, reporting more, putting more detail in the form, or just leaving it blank?

I was thinking of maybe putting together a psa-style infographic (a la think before you post) if the answers you give are poignant or significantly unknown to the average user.

    • orangeNgreen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 years ago

      You’re probably better off not interacting with the content that you’re reporting.

      I’ll second this. Responding to the problematic content usually just leads to a lot more problematic content that the mods need to sort through.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
        152·
        2 years ago

        Okay already glad I made this post as I have definitely erred in this regard several times!

        • orangeNgreen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

          For sure. Responding is the natural thing to do. But, for me at least, I end up reading every response and deciding if I’m safe to just remove the first reported comment, or every child comment, or a mix.

          Maybe some mods just delete the parent comment and all children to keep it simple, but I try to weigh each response fairly.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Also depending on what it is responding can just make you into a target for harassment when/if that person comes back on a different account. Best to just avoid it and not make yourself known to them.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        If you have that happen to you I recommend reaching out via DM either to your instance’s admins or the admins of the server their community is on. Give them the context of the report and also explain how that mod reacted. If a mod acts like that they are very likely an abusive moderator, so make sure to let admins know about that.