As I understand it, user reports go to the community, the community’s instance, as well as the user’s instance if the user is from a separate instance.

My concern is if a user is breaking instance rules across multiple communities it might not rise to a level to catch the attention of instance admins. If my understanding (^) is correct I imagine there is an absolute flood of reports at the instance level making the correlation of reports against a particular user hard to single out.

Is my understanding wrong? Or maybe reports are automatically correlated? Or failing that is there a way to report a user directly to instance admins?

  • kersploosh
    3•4 days ago

    I imagine there is an absolute flood of reports at the instance level making the correlation of reports against a particular user hard to single out.

    This is definitely true on lemmy.world. As I type this there are 241 open reports in the queue, which is actually low compared to recent weeks. Sifting through them to find the ones that need attention from the admin team is a time-consuming chore. It would be really nice if Lemmy’s report system let users flag reports that they think deserve admin attention.

    As Saleh mentioned, the workaround for now is to contact the admin team at the applicable instance. For lemmy.world you can use the reporting mechanisms listed in this community’s sidebar:

    DM https://lemmy.world/u/lwreport or email [email protected] (PGP Supported) if you need to reach our directly to the admin team.