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View submission: Announcing Subreddit 2 Subreddit Modmail
If a user is writing into your subreddit from another subreddit in a masked way, and you want to mute them, the primary option would be to mute the entire subreddit,
Can't it mute the mod internally but not reveal the username to the other sub?
Also, what do you do in the case you want to mute the entire mod team? Do we just have to report it and hope for the best? I think a "mute this mod" and "mute this subreddit" options would be best.
Comment by umbrae at 11/05/2022 at 20:08 UTC
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Yeah good questions - some thoughts but I do hear you.
Can't it mute the mod internally but not reveal the username to the other sub?
Let's say it worked this way - if you went to manage your muted users in your muted users list, would you expect that user to show up or not show up? I think either case would be pretty confusing. Either a fully hidden user whose mute you can't manage, or some sort of masked user whose context is hard to find.
Ultimately we felt like that probably wasn't worth the technical or UI complexity.
Also, what do you do in the case you want to mute the entire mod team? Do we just have to report it and hope for the best? I think a "mute this mod" and "mute this subreddit" options would be best.
If that's the case, that's probably something to report to the admins, as it feels pretty coordinated.
All that said I think the needs here make sense - I can definitely see use cases both for muting entire subreddits and for wanting to communicate in a masked way. We decided to get this out the door without them, but we'll be keeping an eye on how the feature is used for sure.