Re: Unmoderation/soft moderation

On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 2:01 PM Matthew Wild <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

I sort of get your last use case with regards to reverting automated
moderation. I’m terrified of all the extra UI I have to built around
this. This basically means I have to build a moderation control center
into my app. I get that for a full fledged discord replacement / large
community chat platform we will need something like that. But if this
is our goal then there are so many other things that need to be
implemented first.

cheers
Daniel
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