If I were to venture a guess, it would be that if you receive excess reports for a particular user on your instance causing issues on other instances you can boot said user for being a nuisance stopping the problem at the source rather than just the impacted instances cleaning up the reported content with no way to stop the reoccurring problem short of blocking your entire instance.
From reports from users on another instance? I guess I’m just concerned because when I report content on another instance my admin account gets a report notification on my instance. Obviously I can’t do anything about content on other instances so I just want to make sure the right people are also getting my reports.
ChlorineAddict@lemmy.world 1 year ago
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think you’re right, but if an instance is a “bad place,” they would know when to start up a new alt by being triggered by a bunch of places. They could also know when to get upvotes. Oh god, the downvoter crowd could have their own instance.
eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 1 year ago
If the bad actors have their own instance anyone with sense will defederate them.
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh yeah, you’re right, I forgot about the defederating. Glad that’s a thing.
conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 year ago
I think the idea is that as an admin, you might also wish to know bad actors your users are exposed to to allow you to consider whether there are instances you want to block.
eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 1 year ago
That’s what I figured. I wouldn’t have expected it, but it makes sense.