If a comment or post gets reported, I can think of a number of different groups who might see that report:
- The moderators of the community in which it was posted.
- The admins of the instance hosting the community (call it instance X).
- The admins of the reporter’s instance (call it Y).
- The admins of the poster’s instance (call it Z).
Do all of these see the report? Only some subset? Some other group I’m not thinking of?
And if it is all/multiple of these, how does the actioning work? If the report’s admin removes a post, does that mean nobody from instance Y can see it, but everyone else still can, or does it remove it more widely? Same for Z’s admins and Z users. If X admins remove it, I presume that means nobody at all will see it, is this correct? And would a mod approving it means that admins of various instances will then not see the report, or does it stay in their queue separately?
Maybe it’s different on other instances, but here on feddit a report gets “closed” as soon as someone resolves it. Doesn’t matter who did it. So if a comment on my community gets reported both I and the admin see that, and depending on who’s faster one of us can either delete the reported content or simply mark it as read. In both cases it’s no longer pending. The reports work like an inbox, so if I really wanted to I could double check resolved reports and delete them manually afterwards. Never saw the need to do that though. Im sure the other way around is possible as well.
Damn that’s very disappointing. It makes sense in some cases—if the local instance admin removes it, no reason for the community mod to ever see it. But if, say, a beehaw admin removes it after a bee reports it, a lemmy.world should still get to see the content in their queue to decide if they want to remove it, too.
AFAIK the inbox analogy that the previous user wrote applies on an instance level, so in your example the LW admin would still see it (assuming it was against a LW user or something in one of their communities, I believe).
The “mark report as resolved” option doesn’t federate to other instances, if that makes sense. It’ll mark it as resolved for that whole instance (so a community mod won’t see the report anymore once an admin from that instance marks it as resolved and vice versa), but not other instances.
At least, that’s as far as I understand it, don’t quote me on that 😅
Ah I see. Thanks for the clarification! That’s much less of a problem then. (Though still not ideal, since an instance admin might approve something for not violating instance rules, while it does violate specific community rules.)