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View submission: Announcing Remove as a Subreddit
The API is for more than bots. Browser addons like Toolbox use it as well.
The problem with not implementing this feature in the API is that (at least according to the announcement) their intention is that removal reasons be announced publicly to let both the offender and the rest of the community know that and why something was removed....which is fine - however, if it's not made available via the API, then we're stuck with privately notifiying just the offender via modmail if we don't want to expose ourselves to things like harassment.
Comment by Caring_Cactus at 16/08/2022 at 18:54 UTC*
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Thanks for informing me of my ignorance, these browser addons then sound like a remote bot that uses our account as a proxy we gave permission then, I don't think it would be necessary or good still for a subreddit account.
The way I see this feature, as reddit mentioned too in thier post, is it allows mods to use this as a manual automod account. ~~There's no api access to automod~~ There's no private user access to custom tweak automod's access to the api, why should it be given to this subreddit account?
we're stuck with privately notifiying just the offender via modmail if we don't want to expose ourselves to things like harassment.
This is false, you can reply as the subreddit in modmail without exposing yourself. And similar to automod programming, there can be a smart link provided in the removal for a user if they really feel the need to reach out further in modmail.
Edit: correction