Hey all,
I’m the author of lemmyverse.net and I’ve recently been working on a new moderation tool called Lemmy Modder. https://modder.lemmyverse.net/
Currently, it supports user registration/approvals and content report management. I offer it either as a hosted app (which is currently only compatible with Lemmy 0.18 instances) or a package that you can run alongside your Lemmy instance (using Docker-Compose)
Feel free to give it a go and send any feedback my way :) https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-modder
Edit for a note: This tool does not save, proxy or store any of your user credentials or data to me, it is only ever stored locally in your browser. I also do not use any website tracking tools. 👍
Looks good! Suggestion, though: maybe don’t show media embeds by default, considering some trolls have uploaded CSAM to Lemmy in the past? You never know what content you end up moderating.
Very true, though as a moderator, I expect you’d need to validate the report is not reporting something that’s totally fine.
I’m not sure how to deal with this, perhaps I could read your user settings for blur_nsfw and apply that as the default? Or, perhaps a toggle setting that just turns media embeds on/off completely that defaults based on the same user-setting?
My approach would be to add certain keywords to the report message (“porn”, “CSAM”, “child” in various languages, or make it a textbox where mods can enter words themselves) and hide the image by default when the message contains any of those, with a click-to-expand feature to actually verify reports.
I don’t think relying on the NSFW flag is very useful against abuse, though it could be a good feature for moderators of instances that have NSFW communities.
You could also control the behaviour by a setting, just in case.
Yeah, I’ve experienced this. It’d be pretty easy to add a report-contains-word based filter for the images, but if content doesn’t match this then it’d still be an issue.
I’ve created a bug for myself, https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-modder/issues/63 If you wanted to add any additional information or track my progress. :D
I also want to add an in-app popup (with the image/website) when you click the content directly instead of navigating to the actual content in a new tab, so this could get combined to only show content on click (as a configuration, defaulted to only show on “expand”).
Yeah default off seems like the best option, if somebody reports that i would just hide it because it is not worth the risk), especially if there are multiple reports, i don’t know if lemmy has an “appeal” system but maybe that could help too.
Showing a user total karma and the number of downvotes he got could also be a decent indication.