Reporting
Voat pushed a new reporting structure yesterday to help with content management, especially spam. Before yesterday we did not have an adequate way for users to report content and what we did have simply sent messages to smail as Spam reports.
Now Voat has a way for users to report content that violates different rules. Currently we are only exposing system rules, i.e. Spam, Dox, and Illegal content. We will shortly extend this to subverse moderators so they can add rules as well.
You can send reports by clicking the report button on submissions or comments.
Subverse moderators (Owners, Moderators, and Janitors) now have access to grouped user reports by clicking the user reports link in the mod tool box. You can choose to ignore reports which mark them as “reviewed” if they are not actionable.
Credit where credit is due:
Thanks to @Cynabuns spending countless hours researching, organizing, and filtering spam reports, Voat is now currently operating more spam free than at any point in our past. Voat really owes a lot to @Cynabuns and the many users who have helped by reporting spam for their thankless work in this area, so when you don’t see spam, think of these unsung heroes.
Blocked Users
Blocked user functionality has now been extended into comment sections. If you block a user, their comments will be collapsed.
Please note that currently when you block a user, all notifications and PMs are dropped entirely. We will shortly be adding code to allow the notifications from blocked users to reach your inbox but be marked as “read” so as to not allow harassing.
Canary Notice:
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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Lopsid ago
We need the ability to delete posts for when there's child porn. And kill the links too. Like that's the only feature that can save voat.
Donbuster ago
That's going to be hard to rectify with the ideals behind the modlog. If we make it admin only, we have a problem if putt does not respond quickly enough, voat's host will start hearing about us, and we'll be taken down. If we make it mod accessible, then the mods that don't need to be watched closely will have their actions shown in the modlog, and those mods which are abusive will not. Obviously a record of the deletion will be public, but without the content being there, it's just one users word against another.
I feel like a good solution here would be to make the full delete available to mods in globally NSFW subverses (since they are the most likely subs to have illegal content posted to them, and there's far less politically charged discussion that would motivate mod abuse), and a "Flag for review" type system for other subs that mimics a full delete, but requires admin confirmation within 7 days that yes, this is in fact illegal content, before the deleted post simply reappears in the modlog.
Donbuster ago
@puttitout
The more I think about this, the more elegant a solution to a longstanding issue it seems.