Asking because I get reports I make, it would seem rather silly to me if I can’t report misconduct because I’m on my own instance.

Edit: so the answer is yes, another user kindly helped me verify by reporting my test post in the community on my instance. It looks like it sends the report to the relevant people just also sends it to my local admin account for whatever reason lol.

  • @[email protected]
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    You know, it’s surprisingly vague even in the official documentation.

    Let’s test it out. Create a post on your instance, and then make a comment on that post, and I’ll go report them both as “testing” and we’ll see if you get notified.

    Link them here so I can find them.

  • higgs
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    2011 months ago

    Can confirm that you get a notification as a mod. Had my first report today.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      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.

      Edit: ok another user just tried it on one of my posts, it looks like it works as expected, I just also get my own reports sent to my admin.

      • conciselyverbose
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        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.

      • ChlorineAddict
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        411 months ago

        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.

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    In previous cases on my instances, I received a copy of the report, as did the moderator from the server hosting the instance.