I banned a subscriber from one of my communities today for repeatedly breaking the rules. I also blocked them because I find them aggressive and argumentative and I’m not here for that personally. But what happens when their ban from the community ends and they decide to post in the community again? Will I still see their posts as mod? Will I only see them if someone reports them for breaking the rules again? Do I need to unblock users in order to moderate my community properly? Thanks!

  • RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I did some testing with the latest code, main GItHub…

    If you are a non-admin moderator of a community and you block a user in your community, their post is indeed hidden (filtered, not even sent) when you load the list of new posts for that community.

    I am working on getting my testing code neat enough so that these kind of behaviors are documented and changes to them trigger testing alterations.

    • SomeoneElse@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      11 months ago

      Thank you for that! I don’t understand all of those terms but I got the gist! For what my opinion is worth, I think blocking a user as a mod should only block them from communities you don’t moderate. Or moderators should be advised to create separate mod/user accounts.

      Do you know what happens if someone I’ve previously blocked, then posts to a community I moderate? I was a user before I was a mod and blocked unpleasant people. Could they be making posts or commenting on threads within my communities and I’m not even seeing them? That really interferes with my ability to mod.

      • RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml
        5·
        11 months ago

        Could they be making posts or commenting on threads within my communities and I’m not even seeing them?

        correct. When you view the list of posts in the community, that person’s posts are not sent to you by lemmy_server. So they would fly under your moderation radar.