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View submission: Announcing Remove as a Subreddit
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.
Comment by Caring_Cactus at 16/08/2022 at 19:26 UTC
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Automod has this option too though, how is this different? It can either leave a public removal comment or send a private ~~modmail~~ message to notify the user, the only difference with this new feature is it's manual with the subreddit's name instead of automod.
Because this account is for manual interventions - e.g. where AutoModerator doesn't cut the mustard.
Toolbox has prefilled removal reasons too though, now we don't have to use that round about method. It's all streamlined with reddit.