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Still excited about matrix and riot and similar... Still need to have methods for moderators and admins to have permissions to view details about other people
by stevenicr 8y ago
Still excited about matrix and riot and similar...
Still need to have methods for moderators and admins to have permissions to view details about other people in the chat rooms.
Things like ip address, server they are federated from(?), client used, etc.
Having run public chat rooms for more than a decade, I've found the need to give some people moderator powers to inspect suspicious users, log info, and ban via subnets and cidr being very important to lessen the flow of many issues.
It only takes one troll to ruin your chat room, and that troll can connect from dozens of ips from dozens of vpns in little time.
The more info we can provide to a few trusted people, the easier it is to detect these things and ban people / networks.
I know this is not a magic pill to fix all the problems with all the people. A combo method with things like having regular users move to a room that takes a certain level to join, and only gaining access to those levels if you've been a known member for x months for example can make a big difference in situations like that as well.
Other moderation tools would be nice too, but without the ip info and such the others are moot in my experiences.
- Arathorn 8y agoWe do have this API already actually: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.rst https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/admin..., but it needs UI hooked up to it (and it should probably be in the spec rather than synapse-specific). Agreed that we need more moderation toolsnin general though; we’re working on it.