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I think QoL tools for moderators need to become more of a Fediverse priority. This burns people out. Key moderators of communities quit and communities become abandoned.

Ideas :

  • Automatic removal option to remove posts and/or comments for specific keywords. This would be most useful for automatically removing posts and comments when people slur. Piefed already has a keyword filter for visibility. This could be expanded to community settings. Have it also fire-off a report to the moderators when someone triggers it.
  • Automatic URL removal. Allow communities to blacklist specific urls. Useful for politics or news communities that want to negate sources known for misinformation.
  • Automatic removal for repeat URL posting. Very useful for politics or news communities to prevent double-posting.
  • Make it so a community can set itself up to only accept text posts, video posts, or image posts. This should prevent tedious janitorial cleanup for communities that only allow links, or text posts (the most common two).
  • Post Delay Restrictions. Some communities, perhaps not many, might be interested in posting cooldowns for users. So you can only post 1 post every hour, or 2 posts every hour - or whatever the chosen limit is. This would help negate spammers and over-enthusiastic posters flooding a topical community.
  • Post Formatting Requirements. This one could be trickier and more effort than most of the others, but setting conditions for the formatting of new posts would be useful.

Now, not all communities would make use or have any need to make use of all of these - but many would to varying degrees - and it would help them.

I think going down this road is important to prevent moderators burning out over the drudgery of moderating communities.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are a lot of people who make excellent mods who are not programmers. It's already a small enough pool that requiring a particular skill only further narrows the pool. It also has a secondary effect that good mods may be unwilling to take on larger communities, or additional responsibilities.

If we want better moderation, the fediverse has to become more friendly to non technical people.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not what I'm saying.

Obviously not everyone needs to code. Once I write a bot, it could potentially be used by anyone.

Only a small percentage of mods need to also be developers. But since that group isn't big enough yet, the solution is growth.

Not asking the platform devs to do even more. They too, are volunteers.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Fair, thanks for the clarification.