• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    15 days ago

    apparently so. I suspect what happens is that the admin can only ban people for their own instance, so our instance will treat this user as banned, even if they can otherwise post. If it’s out own user, that instance won’t be able to see their posts in their community, but if it’s a user from another instance, I suspect that only our instance user’s won’t see their posts in that community.

    Strange that it works this way (don’t blame me, I didn’t build this software) but I guess this has some uses.

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      15 days ago

      Correct, I suppose the ban button could be hidden from the ui in that case.

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        15 days ago

        honestly, we really just need a separation between “report to mod” and “report to mod & admins” or smt.

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          13 days ago

          Also need an option to report to only admins, since mods which are abusive can just dismiss every report. Possibly even abuse the reporter. It happened to me earlier when someone created a community to harass me and pinged me on every post.

          Being able to bypass mods is crucial in situations like that.