There are two features I'd love to see #MastoDev put on the long term roadmap.
1. The ability to block an entire instance.
2. A user reputation system where users can set a rep score below which users are automatically hidden.
This would help to solve a lot of the old harassment / shitty marketing problems from birdsite.
@whatthegeek I think the issue with 2 is that it can be abused with dogpiling and automating stuff like that is usually really bad.
Number 1 is spot on tho
@spiderrobotpig That's exactly why I threw in the bit about a user defined autohide value for rep score. Put the threshold in the hands of the user, and they can set a value prohibitively high for dogpiling.
@whatthegeek @spiderrobotpig the issue is, imagine all the members of antipizza.club all decide to lower the rep of someone who's say, an admin of pizza.love
if they're big enough, they can all simply bring that person down to nil
@b @whatthegeek Yeah exactly. And then that person would be basically invisible in Federated because people are assholes.
@spiderrobotpig @whatthegeek @b agree with all of the concerns above (though 1 should absolutely happen!). i think some sort of community moderation system, akin to league of legend's tribunal, could work really well here.
(i research online harassment, so if there's anything i can do to be helpful, let me know!)