Moderation Actions

We periodically publish a high level summary of moderator actions on vmst.io. These statistics are cumulative starting from when the instance opened on October 6, 2022.

Future updates are planned quarterly.

These numbers were last updated on February 17, 2023.

Definitions

• Local users are vmst.io members.
• Remote users are members of federated instances other than vmst.io.
• Unique Reporting Events are a single report or group of reports against a single user or post, during a specific time period.
  We distinguish a new unique reporting event as:
  • A new report after resolving a previous reporting event
    For example, three reports on the same user are the same reporting event. Moderators take action, resolving the three reports.
    Another user then reports the same user. This new report is a separate unique reporting event.
  • Reports require additional or different moderator action
    For example, two different reports against the same user. One report resolves with no action while the other report resolves with limiting the reported user. These are two separate unique reporting events.
  
  Note: While multiple reports are grouped in this page into reporting events, the moderation team takes multiple reports against a user very seriously. Report count against a user or post reflect the urgency of needed action.

When reviewing reports, moderators may take

• Actions against an account as a whole
• Actions against specific content or posts
• No actions against either the account or content

Summary

Local users are vmst.io members. Remote users are members of federated instances.

As of the date of this report, we have not removed content or taken action against users at the request of any government or law enforcement agency.

Account Actions

For a full explanation of the various Moderator actions, please see the Moderator Policy page.

Suspensions

Local accounts that are suspended lose all access to their account. Their account profile and posts also becomes inaccessible to any other user on vmst.io. Suspended users' posts may remain visible on remote servers.

Remote suspended accounts lose their ability to interact with any members of vmst.io. Any relationships between any vmst.io member and the remote user are broken.

Limitations

Limited accounts lose the ability to interact with other users who they do not already have a relationship with. A relationship includes existing followers or their interaction with a user post (liking, boosting, or replying).

The content from a limited user does not appear on the Local or Federated timelines.

Freezing

Frozen accounts cannot post but their previous content is still accessible to all users on all timelines.

Only local accounts can be frozen.

Appeals

Account limitations or suspensions can be appealed. Appeals are reviewed by vmst.io Directors or Administrator.

Only local accounts may appeal moderator decisions against them.

Content Actions

On some reports action is taken directly on the reported content, but not on the reported user account.

No Actions

After careful review we may determine that no action is required on a report.

Content Actions

On some reports action is taken directly on the reported content, but not on the reported user account.

Limiting to Removing content are the only options available. Other than marking images as sensitive our Moderators cannot directly edit member posts.