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It doesn’t seem like there’s an option to get email notifications when reports are submitted to a community that you moderate.

Do you just use the website and keep an eye on report notifications that way?

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[–] Nemo@midwest.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never gotten any, sorry.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Same here, and considering I have seen plenty of posts that needed to be removed naturally on the bigger of the two communities I am a mod for, I have to question if people are not reporting or if the report thing is just broken.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People probably aren't reporting. AFAIK, reporting isn't anonymous and there are not pre-setup reasons for reporting. Functionally, it's the same as just DMing a moderator.

If a person can't submit an anonymous report by selecting the reason from a dropdown, thats too much effort for them and it's easier to just not report and assume a moderator will see the problem and eventually correct it.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just happen to check the little notification thingy whenever I'm on Lemmy on desktop. I'm not always the quickest mod to respond, but whenever I'm the first to see it, I take care of it.

If one of the Lemmy apps were to add push notifications for reports, it would be much simpler.

[–] silas@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I’m very close to releasing !lemmynade@lemm.ee for testing, and it has this! I know there’s a couple other apps out there that support this too. Mod resources are scarce right now, but us devs are hard at work to bring some great tools the table. I think this is one of the next big steps to seeing Lemmy thrive long-term. It’s only up from here!

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is what I’m waiting/hoping for - or at least email notifications but I guess that falls into the hands of the true devs.

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

I mostly use the desktop interface, so I'll see if there are any reports in the upper right corner.

[–] loopy@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

It’s not integrated into any of the apps I use, so I use a mobile browser. There’s a shield icon that appears next to the notification bell icon. It’s essentially another inbox that shows the reporter, reportee, post, community, and reason for reporting. I still have to manually click the post and decide what to do (ie, remove, ban, nothing), and then go back to the mod inbox and click a Resolved (like a “read”) button.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just use the website, and make sure to log in at least twice a day to look for reports.

Additionally, I'm following the RSS of the communities that I moderate. If something potentially problematic is posted in one, I'll see it with or without reports.

[–] example@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

for our admin team, we're using a bot to message a matrix room when content is reported and reacting to the message when it's been handled.

this could be done pretty much the same way on mod level, though this is certainly not easily accessible to everyone due to the hosting involved.

and all of this is only relevant if you even receive reports about content in the first place. if you moderate a community on another instance, tough luck unfortunately, as they currently do not federate.

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[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah right on that’s a cool idea!

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

It would be great to have an RSS feed of reports in a community. This way it can be piped into external tools and notification mechanisms.