Just muted a guy for DOS-level posting to the public timeline.
@Pat Which DOS? MS-DOS or any other flavor?
OK, you caught me. I always complain about people using abbreviations without disambiguation, but now I did it!
DOS = Denial or Service
(some guy rapidly posted 20+ toots in a row, so I muted him.)
@Pat Ah yeah, he's very active. Understandable that you muted him, no problem. Though no real need to mention who you muted or blocked, unless you really wanted to share it with the public I suppose.
I try to do that now when I think of it, for transparency and so I can remember why I muted/blocked someone.
@Pat Granted, that's only for yourself, others won't see it so that's less transparency.
Yes, I've tried that too.
It would be a great feature to add to the software -- when you get to the confirmation page while muting/blocking, if it could include a text field where you enter why you are blocking and then have those notes display when you list out your list of muted/blocked users.
@Pat That would be pretty useful. You could always put in a ticket with that suggestion on the Mastodon development site.
That feature might also be useful for admins to have more info while moderating.
@Pat Admins do have some sort of profile logging going on in the moderation panel. You can add custom notes too for other mods to see.
When a mod sees that someone is getting a lot of blocks, it might be useful to see immediately why folks are blocking them, rather than having to read through their timeline.
@Pat Oh, we can't see whether people blocked who or not. Would be useful, but otoh... maybe not. Anyone speaking Romanian only might be blocked by half the Fediverse without it being suspicious. :P
I'm surprised that mods can't see who is blocking who. It seems that that would be a useful tool to have.
The feature I proposed would help sort out that Romanian example situation.
For that feature, it might even be better to have a list of common reasons that the user could just click when they block, like: foreign language, offensive, gore, obnoxious, trolling, etc.
@Pat You could make use of this profile notes feature and put in there why you blocked someone? That seems easier than trying to search back one of your toots, especially if the search is broken again.