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Appropriate reporting


Ok, I'm sure other Fediverse #admin have gotten reports like this:

Yes, obviously we haven't been checking our reports regularly, with only 3 active users, and only one that's truly active, its easy to monitor this place, so reports aren't hugely important.

That said, gotta love this one, I mean expecting someone to be punished not for violating rules here, but maybe, possibly doing something bad somewhere on the internet.
Umm, unless they break the rules here, we don't really have grounds to ban them, I mean sure, I can do anything I want, but it doesn't reflect well on me for banning people for no reason.
Second and more important, is the lack of proof, its not like user names are unique, the ones I use elsewhere on the web, I know of multiple other users using the same or similar names (minor spelling variations, number substitutes, etc), even if I were inclined to ban someone for something they do somewhere else, I'd need proof of the behavior and proof that its them.

Seriously, if you're going to report a user, feel free, but don't bother us with unsubstantiated claims that have nothing to do with our instance, sadly we don't control the entire internet.

#moderation


A question for the #friendica admins out there.

My instance seems to be missing a user feature, as you can see from the pics, on my old venera.social account (the striped one), there's a 'network widgets' section in additional features, which is missing from my new hosted instance.
Is that an old feature, or is that missing from my instance?
Is it something I as the admin need to activate, or do I need to ask my host to do that?

Thanks

EDIT
Forgot to mention, we're running Friendica 'Giant Rhubarb' 2023.05 - 1518
That's rather old, isn't it?