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If you are the moderator you can delete them off of your server specifically if you wish...
But you realize someone going to your post from another server will still see it... it will only disapear for the users who are viewing it from your server itself (since youve deleted it only from your local server).
@freemo @evan
Which is why I'm telling you to report it, if you think it's either spam or purposeful disruption. Give the mods of both servers an opportunity to look that over and decide if something should be done. For all you know, it's some sort of automated spam account that's slipped beneath the radar.
Thats fair then, if your only concern here is bots, and the post seems like it might be spam, and not just "off topic".. and you bother to ask them "hey are you a person"... and all that, then i think reporting for spam is fine, and a good thing (id do the same).
My issue was it sounded like you'd report an account simply for making a non sequitur comment in and of itself... That seemed wrong.
I know you have good intentions, so I hope you dont take this the wrong way but.... I'd have to say that you are a bad actor here.
Making non-sequitor comments, unless it is suspicious of spam in some way, is not something any moderator should care about, or have their time wasted.
As a moderator myself I can say that report spam is not generally welcome where people report others for non-nonsensical reasons like this. It is in no way something that is actionable and wastes times. Also many moderators simply block when they get enough reports since they cant handle the volume and this can lead to a lot of blocks that are completely unjustified and abusive.
Its very specific to the circumstances... If someone posts about the super bowl and then someone makes a comment about snow tires that seems completely unrelated to the OP with a link to a snow tire store, then yea, thats suspicious...
But if someone makes a comment about something that seems somewhat tangential but has some reasoning as to why the OP post might have spurred the tangential conversation, then no, you would be the bad actor to make this report. When I reply to something I am posting to **my** server, not yours, reporting me because I made a post on my own server about your post because it isnt "on topic" enough is just toxic behavior.
If you want a free services that is well moderated, you have to remember moderators arent paid.. when you waste our time with reports on non-sense you make the network unmanagable.. this isnt good for the server or our communities.
@freemo @evan
I will consider what you have said, because I see your point.
All I am saying is, on Tech Hub, I would rather people click the report button, because I would rather look at reports that didn't need to be made than find weeks of mildly disruptive activity from a troll account I'd never seen, and I would rather have a chance to go send a PM to someone who isn't interacting well for whatever reason.
Different styles I guess.
I think that is great, and you as a moderator having that style and welcoming it is good... If someone knows you want that, and that you are responsible enough to not take a report as a sign of suspicion (without research) then yea I think thats a great policy.
But i dont think that reflects the mentality of other servers... The vast majority of server moderators would not see a reply that is off topic as anything that even hints at trolling.
We are here to encourage conversation, not make people scared to talk politely... I would be quite worried about being a part of any server that is going to investigate me simply because i made a comment that deviated past the subject of the original post in some way... having users living in fear of such a minor misstep or trying to control their behavior in a way that discourages that is unhealthy.
As a general principle on that I agree. If something seems like genuinely suspicious activity, even if you arent sure, then yea, by all means report it.
All I'm saying is someone being off topic a bit in their reply shouldnt be anything setting off red flags in most cases... thats my only point. Its hardly rude or suspicious for a conversation to expand into new areas, nor should it be discouraged.
@evan
Your server has a sort of "virtual" account for the foreign user who made the post... its their "federated" account but its the cache your local server has of it... but you can moderate it like a local account,a nd go in and delete posts or whatever you want..
When you do this your basically just making it so people with accounts on your server will never see the reply, but as i said even if you do this someone from another server looking at your thread will still see the reply because they federate with the other server too and fetched it from that server not yours.
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