UlrikHD

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Looking at your instance handle, I hope/assume that your comment is supposed to be in lighthearted jest. However that would only be an assumption on my part and in general it's not ok to say someone's job/work tool is for [remarks directed at sex, gender, ethnicity, orientation, disabilities, etc...] per CoC 3.5.

Please take into consideration that members on this instance may be of different backgrounds than what you're used to and interpets what you say differently. Further breaches of our Code of Conduct may lead to temporary or permament ban.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think a 30 day limit is far too restrictive. Imagine making an account to ask for help and then being told you have to wait 30 days. You'll just turn to reddit like the 99% did from the start. The fact I couldn't help/answer people's question on SO after signing up permanently turned me away from that network, just as as an example.

Most spam reports that reaches this instance is from other instances, so even with the wrong assumption that us putting up a restriction would block spammers, it would hardly put a dent in the amount of spam.

I think the real solution will be better moderator tools so that mods can effectively control their community as needed. An auto-mod can already do exactly what you're asking for on a community level, which wouldn't be as oppressive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That should actually work great, in the absence of being part of the API, thanks! Funnily enough the copilot autocomplete suggested that when I was formatting the url param.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Sorry if this is the wrong community, not sure where else to post the question, and I'd rather avoid creating an issue over on Github.

Is there a way to check if a federated user is an administrator via the API? .get_person_details() will have the admin field set to false for all other than local admins and .get_community() only reveals the list of moderators.

I know I could scrape the admin list from the main page html, but scraping html is prone to errors if an instance uses an alternative frontend or the frontend is updated. Getting the data via the API should be a more stable solution.

Based on #3703 it seems like a decent chance that this information isn't currently exposed to federated instances though?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

@[email protected] might give a more precise date, but unless there is an important security update, we prefer to wait 1-2 weeks to see how the update goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

From the perspective of the admin team, as long as reports are consistently resolved in a timely manner we are happy.

If you have any questions or want help with finding extra moderators, feel free to ask it here or via DM, otherwise we also have a Discord server and a Matrix space where we can talk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

@[email protected]

Just a reminder that we sent you a DM some time ago, but have yet to receive an answer. Happy cake day :)

-The admin team

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

While we have opened up community creation for users, please refrain from misusing the feature.

Also, as specified in our code of conduct, try to avoid personal attacks. @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Community creation is open for all users, you are free to create a community dedicated to Q&A if you want a community explicitly for it. The admin team is willing to help out with moderation if that is what's holding you back.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Please refrain from using slurs and disparage people for no good reason on our instance.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Describe the problem

3/4 moderators of the community are inactive, leading to a backlog of unresolved reports from the community.

Suggested solution

Find 1-2 active programming.dev users in the community volunteering to moderate c/programmer_humor in the comments of this post.

Expected time cost

A few minutes each week, the volume of the reports from the community is currently low.

Temporary solution

The community will be moderated by the admin community team until new moderators are found.

 

Are there any websites or posts where one can see planned features for the app? It would be nice to know what's missing from the initial release. I see plenty of feature requests, but none contains confirmation of whether that feature will be worked on or not.

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