When the reason for the report is a generic sentence, it is necessary to read the entire comment thread to understand the full context. Therefore, please write, even if it is just 2 words, why the content you are reporting should be removed. From now on, reports of this type will be ignored (except for some cases).
Also, while we are on the subject of reports and content preferences, I would like to add that this instance does not attempt to appeal to mainstream opinion. Content that does not align with your political preferences may not be removed. However, I am aware that this policy attracts trolls and I try to intervene as much as I can.
If you want a more refined instance, you can try: beehaw.org, lemmy.blahaj.zone, dubvee.org, lemmy.ca, piefed.social etc.
Yes, that’s what I was guessing too.
Is there a way to show community and instance rules while reporting in applications? If I remember correctly, Mlem used to extract them from the description, but I guess they gave up. Could there be a standard for this? Anything I can do?
/cc @eric@lemmy.ml @sjmarf@lemmy.ml @aeharding@vger.social
Mlem dev here. Mlem has some logic that looks through the community/instance description, and tries to extract the rules list. If it’s able to find the rules, it displays them as options in the report sheet:
At the moment, Mlem fails to recognize the formatting that lemy.lol uses. I’ve added a fix for this, so it’ll work properly for lemy.lol in the next version. The “he’s just a chill guy” image was confusing our parsing logic :)
It would be nice if there was a standardized way to do this, I agree. Reddit had a dedicated “rules list” field, separate from the description field, which would have made this easier.