Unmoderation/soft moderation

Matthew Wild <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Apr 2026 12:59:30 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.network.jabber.standards-jig
Message-ID <CAJt9-x6bfnFON+29EaKmg8pWkVwequfUTrDnUjxyUwOj+DcwnQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi folks,

I'm curious if anyone has thoughts on being able to undo a XEP-0425
moderation action.

The use cases I have in mind are:

- admin accidentally moderated the wrong message
- one admin moderates a message, but after consideration/discussion
with other admins, it is decided it shouldn't have been moderated
- reverting automated moderation after human review

This last point is the one that sparked this email, however I have
experienced the other cases as well over the past couple of years.

For the automated case, all I necessarily want is for clients to hide
(by default) messages in a group chat which are likely to be spam, for
example if some trusted but non-admin users have reported it. When an
admin does respond, they could then moderate the message fully, or
unhide it (if the report was incorrect, e.g. malicious).

This hiding/unhiding could be a new XEP, or we could solve
"unmoderation", which solves the other use cases and probably makes
the most sense.

Thoughts?

Regards,
Matthew
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