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View submission: Announcing Remove as a Subreddit
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
Comment by TheNerdyAnarchist at 16/08/2022 at 19:02 UTC
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I think you may have misread my statement about being stuck with privately notifying via modmail **if we don't want to expose** ourselves.
My point was that one of the main purposes of this new feature is supposedly to increase transparency by *publicly* pointing out that content was removed and why it was removed without exposing/singling out the moderator for potential abuse.
The majority of moderator actions taken on Reddit are done in old reddit, meaning if they wanted to *more effectively* accomplish this, it should be made available in old Reddit and the API.
There's no api access to automod, why should it be given to this account too?
Because this account is for manual interventions - e.g. where AutoModerator doesn't cut the mustard. Removal reasons are made to provide a general, editable template for a response, whereas AutoModerator is static.