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View submission: Announcing Subreddit 2 Subreddit Modmail
First of all, this is a great feature and thanks for adding it!
Unfortunately, the inability to send modmail as the subreddit means that subreddit-to-subreddit modmail is only going to be used in a subset of situations.
On /r/BotDefense, we sometimes need to interact with subreddits using our bot and more than a few times, it's been with a subreddit that isn't exactly trustworthy. I definitely try to avoid showing my username in those situations. Don't admins also hide their username more often when interacting with certain subreddits or users?
To use another example for this use case: if subreddit A has a submission that is resulting in a brigade on subreddit B, why should someone on subreddit B be forced to reveal their username when modmailing subreddit A about the issue?
one troublemaking mod may not be representative of your whole community
Then that person can be removed as a moderator or have their modmail permissions revoked.
To put it another way, if a moderation team can't behave as a whole then the entire moderation team should be muted, not just a single moderator. That a moderation team would have to issue mute after mute to temporarily end a conversation is not a good thing.
Comment by SquareWheel at 12/05/2022 at 02:58 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It's certainly not ideal, but a lot of mod teams have a shared mod account for announcements and such. That could be a unified voice in subreddit-to-subreddit communications, without exposing a specific mod behind it.
Comment by Caring_Cactus at 12/05/2022 at 19:28 UTC
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...it's been with a subreddit that isn't exactly trustworthy. I definitely try to avoid showing my username in those situations.
If you're talking to the subreddit moderators, what bad does using your public moderating account do? It's a discussion, and this new feature allows for greater transparency between mod teams that isn't one sided like it has been. Both sides can't hide behind the subreddit name, and this new feature is like an official stamp showing it's between moderators, and not a specific user who may or may not be acting on behalf of a subreddit.
if subreddit A has a submission that is resulting in a brigade on subreddit B, why should someone on subreddit B be forced to reveal their username when modmailing subreddit A about the issue?
If subreddit A has a submission causing a brigade it's not the subreddit causing the brigade, but the user's post. With this new feature, now there's better official legitimacy for reaching out. Subreddit A likely does not want to break reddit's TOS by ignoring brigades from lack of proper moderation.