Help wanted to design the moderation pages

Hypolite Petovan 1 Jahr her • friendica (via ActivityPub)

Help wanted to design the moderation pages

Hi #Friendica people,

I've started a design document for the upcoming moderation pages that come with adding support for moderation reports by @Michael Vogel . However, I need your help. I'm notoriously bad at keeping focused on writing such a document even if I recognize its usefulness to do things once and do them right.

So please add/edit what you think is missing/incorrect in this CryptPad file hosted by the ever-gracious @Tio

https://office.trom.tf/pad/#/2/pad/edit/1ensaAqGa8BSt3yPNBftb+mr/

Cc: @Friendica Support @Friendica Developers @Friendica Admins

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Marco R. 1 Jahr her friendica

I added an open question concerning the additional report fields (category and rule id).

Hypolite Petovan 1 Jahr her • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Marco R. Thanks for your input! Category is meaningful but we don't have a concept of bulleted point TOS in Friendica so I'm not sur we should display the latter field for everybody.

@Marco R.

Schmaker 1 Jahr her • friendica (via ActivityPub)

I'm not sure if it's related to this document (as it seems to me like it is focused on reporting only, not the moderation itself), but somehow i find it important to mention - what will be actual moderation options (and what activitypub and related implementations allows to do).

Just an ideas to consider, you may also don't care at all, feel free to ignore 😀

At this moment we can:

Block user on my instance
It's not clear to me if it just hides user on my instance, or also block for users followers on my instance. Does he keeps read-only access?
Block remote user for everyone on my instance
Delete user on my instance
Obvious

What i think we also should be able to do:

Block user for everyone but his followers on my instance
No more showing in global/local timelines and public comments
Hide user's profile
Mark user as moderated and let visitor show his profile with warning from moderator (similar what Mastodon does)
Warn user
No moderation action, just giant "you have been warned by moderator, if you continue violating instance rules, then your account can face consequences"
Block user's federation to other servers
Sometimes you may want user's content and comments only on your server (or block it for selected server) as they can be controversial for others
Let user comment only his posts
This may be specifically effective against trolling imho
Mark post/comment moderated
Hide post/comment behind warning message

Hypolite Petovan 1 Jahr her • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Schmaker Thanks, these suggestions are valuable, this was gong to be my next design avenue after handling reports.

As a aside, “ Block user for everyone but his followers on my instance” is already available as a console command named “silence-something” (I’m on my phone, will confirm later).

@Schmaker

Hypolite Petovan 1 Jahr her • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Schmaker The console command is globalcommunitysilence. There's no local alternative but there probably should be.

@Schmaker

utzer [Friendica] 1 Jahr her • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Hypolite Petovan I don't get the context, it is not clear what this reply is for.

global silence allows to silence local accounts locally too, I use that for some nsfw accounts that signed up on my server. Silencing them will not show the posts in the community (local timeline), which sometimes then shows an empty page in the community, as it will simply not show the post, but count the not shown posts as posts, so pages will be empty.

@Schmaker

@Hypolite Petovan @Schmaker

Hypolite Petovan 1 Jahr her • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@utzer ~Friendica~ @Schmaker I was replying to Schmaker, thanks for the elaboration, I thought this command was only for remote contacts not to show in the global community page, I guess it is wrongly named.

@utzer [Friendica] @Schmaker

Hypolite Petovan 1 Jahr her • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Andy H3 Thanks! In my experience, making a free form text box required will not make people who did not intend on adding meaningful information suddenly do so.

I know it’s true at least for the “Signup reasons” field Mastodon provides for registration by approval.

@Andy H3

Marco R. 1 Jahr her friendica

If the report is posted via API, it should be standardized categories. This would make it easy for a GUI. Also "illegal" as additional category seems sensible.

Hypolite Petovan 1 Jahr her • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Andy H3 This would be ideal, but at first we'll have hard-coded categories. Spam, Illegal Content, Safety (including harassment, discrimination, death threats...) and a broad Unwanted Behavior are my candidates.

@Andy H3

Gidi Kroon 1 Jahr her • friendica (via ActivityPub)

I don't know whether text gets annotated with who added it, but I added the items about adding extra context to a report, bulk/group handling of reports and related history of an account, so if there are any questions there about what I mean, feel free to ask, change, remove, etc.

Hypolite Petovan 1 Jahr her • friendica (via ActivityPub)

@Gidi Kroon Thank you for your work!

@Gidi Kroon