@Mastodon @Gargron I'm a bit confused about the explore...

@Mastodon @Gargron I'm a bit confused about the explore tab. For trends it's possible to auto-approve them, so you don't need to manually do this. Because that costs a lot of time. It would be great if users can report trends, so moderators can act on that.

But posts (and news I presume, but I don't see any news posts yet) you need to manually approve. This can be very labour intensive. I don't think you can expect from moderators (mostly volunteers) to check every few hours if there are new posts. I think an auto-approve setting is very needed here. If the posts are problematic, users can report them. Right now it's to time consuming for us moderators. Actually I just approve them all, cause I don't have the time to individually check them.

The alternative would be to disable the explore tab all together using css.

Like 31 Mar 2022 at 22:30 | Wall-to-wall | Open on todon.nl

3 comments

Eugen Rochko

@joenepraat @Mastodon As you can approve authors/publishers instead of individual posts/links, and there is a limited number of actually regularly popular authors/publishers, the workload is reduced after an initial burst

1 Apr 2022 at 10:03 | Open on mastodon.social

joene 🏴🍉🌲

@Gargron @Mastodon It's still a hell of a job to find out if a user is legit. A lot of servers doesn't have this capacity. I really think it would be good to have an an auto-approve options for the posts. On smaller good moderated servers those posts are already usable. Also an option to report trends is a good idea in my opinion. Another idea is to let users vote posts and trends down (with a threshold to remove them completely). This will make it even more a community process.

1 Apr 2022 at 12:47 | Open on todon.nl

joene 🏴🍉🌲

@Gargron OK, publishers I understand, but authors is like approving all Mastodon users individually. Better to add something like trusted domains.

1 Apr 2022 at 13:21 | Open on todon.nl