Do reports also go to mods?
Just reported some spam on !memes@lemmy.ml and noticed that I got it myself, as the sole admin of my private instance.
Would the mods of !memes@lemmy.ml and maybe even the admins on lemmy.ml have gotten the report as well or should I just ignore the report button and do what is necessary for my own instance?
The mods and admins of that comm/instance get it as well, yes.
I wrote a question on this earlier (probably after reporting the same stuff on !memes) and it got lost.
So, 1) the mods/admins of the spammed community get notified, 2) the admins of the reporter's instance get notified, and presumably 3) the admins of the spammer's instance also get notified?
A related question, as I'm working on testing on the source code now. Is there supposed to be a distinction when an admin removes a comment vs. a moderator removing a comment? The testing scripts spins up 5 federated servers, and at the start they all just get 1 login each - which is the admin themselves. When you test creating a community, then the instance it is created on the creator (the admin) becomes both a community moderator and admin for that specific community.
For the majority of communities, an 'admin' isn't a mod, but they do have the ability to remove comments. But should a comment removal federate to all the subscribed instances of that community that it was removed. It makes a messy situation of expectations that a monolithic system like Reddit would be far more predictable to normal people about...
I don't think there's any difference. I'm a mod on some comms and if an instance admin removes a comment, everything looks the same way as when another mod does. I think admins just have mod privileges everywhere.
Deletion should federate either way too, regardless whether something is removed by the author, mod or admin.