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And I've been crying about this for two years or something. Look at my past posts on the subject – I've proposed a ton of improvements.

Retaining local, mod-eyes-only copies of posts that have been reported and since deleted, for documentation purposes, that's another one.

Every company in the world is required to archive receipts for a decade, but if I delete a post as a moderator, it's gone in 30 days and impossible to reconstruct the circumstances of the original ticket.

I've suggested semi-automatic moderation aids both passive and active, like automatically either silencing or just flagging for manual review every new instance the first time it's encountered.

And every time, I get a half dozen fellow mods across the 'verse agree and say, yeah, moderation tools really suck around here.

What's happened since?

The content warning field has hazard bars now. There's a mandatory, disruptive "read more" feature nobody likes. Unlisted has been renamed "quiet public" and global timelines "live feeds". We got quote posts half the userbase doesn't want.

I don't think the mod tools have changed in the entire time I've been a moderator, with one small exception:

The button that used to show posts on the original instance now shows them in the mod backend.

Providing no advantages and breaking continuity with previous behaviour for no apparent reason.

Great job, everyone. Pack it up, a job well done, clap yourself on the back.

Fuck all of this.

#MastoMod