A moderator deleted one of my posts for being off topic. I received no notification. It’s mere chance that I realized my post was silently removed, at which point I checked to modlog where a reason was given.

Users can filter sitewide modlogs on their own account to see the actions against them (great!) – but there should also be a notification.

  • OtterAEnglish
    201·
    4 months ago

    Myself and many other moderators share this concern

    If users don’t know why their content was removed

    • they won’t know what they did wrong, in cases of justified removals
    • they won’t be following up, in cases of error removals

    Part of the difficulty is having the solution work within a federated system, but it’s not impossible

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
      7·
      4 months ago

      I was recently blocked on a community, I have a good idea of why(I’m sure they thought I was being a dick for agreeing with someone saying that a wider war with Russia would probably be a bad thing) but there was no real indication that I had even been blocked until I happened to be looking through my comment history and noticed the blocked symbol next to my name.
      An automated message saying I’ve been blocked, by which community, and with a space for someone to maybe put a reason in, would have been nice.

    • Exocrinous@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Yeah, users are just gonna break the rules again and again with no kind of notification, until they get banned.