On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 2:01 PM Matthew Wild <mwild1(a)gmail.com> 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