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Voyager's default “Breaks Community Rules” report button results in many vague reports (github.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
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I often get reports with just “Breaks Community Rules” and no additional context. This is because Voyager automatically sets the mandatory report reason as “Breaks Community Rules” without actually adding a reason. However, it's often not clear why a post would break those rules and which rule would be broken.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe even a note saying that vague reports may be ignored.

I do my best to investigate what the problem might be, but at some point I need to dismiss the report without actioning anything

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't think that's a good idea. There often is a very good reason for the report. I usually sent a DM asking the reporter to elaborate further.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Fair enough, I do investigate more for the communities I'm actively moderating, but a lot of the reports are intended for the community moderators, and it's not really my place to follow up on it.

    Another common one is "spam". We get a lot of legitimate reports for spam which I take action on. Sometimes a regular comment is reported for "spam", and if it doesn't look like spam to me then I will end up dismissing it.

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