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View submission: Better Faster Stronger: Recent improvements to moderation tools.
Regarding the mod notes feature, I'll repeat the comment I made two months ago[1]:
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/v3g6y1/comment/iaylbdz/?context=3
In order for native (non r/toolbox) modnotes to be usable by experienced moderators, these things should happen first:
1. Differentiate **permissions** needed to change (or even view) modnotes. Adding modnotes currently is under "Manage Users", which includes "Access mod notes, ban and mute users, and approve submitters". Mod notes are definitely a **lower-level permission** than banning/muting/approving submitters. There should be a different permission level for moderators that only handles adding/removing mod notes. This gets more important the larger the subreddit is.
2. In migrating from r/toolbox usernotes, there needs to be a way to also input the **date** the original usernote was added. Otherwise the mod log gets wildy messy. Deriving the date from the "thing" the mod note is attached to (the comment or post that "reddit_id" points to) is also acceptable. I really don't understand the reason it was not included in the first place. My guesses are either it's some kind of security issue (but I can't think of a scenario where the mods of a subreddit would not be trusted to use mod notes properly) or some other technical issue with the way data are stored within reddit's codebase (I have seen R2's code and even managed to run the VM locally, although it was really super hard)
3. **Custom labels** (apart from BOT_BAN, PERMA_BAN, BAN, ABUSE_WARNING, SPAM_WARNING, SPAM_WATCH, SOLID_CONTRIBUTOR, HELPFUL_USER). This is of less importance than the other two, I'm not really sure how many subreddits actually use custom labels anyway.
Please don't leave this feature half-baked. Respect the work you have already done for it and finish it[2]!
2: https://media.giphy.com/media/CatCCFZa6U8nK/giphy.gif
Comment by lift_ticket83 at 02/08/2022 at 23:37 UTC
12 upvotes, 0 direct replies
In migrating from r/toolbox usernotes, there needs to be a way to also input the date the original usernote was added.
Good news - in the migration[1] we recently completed for subs that needed assistance importing their old notes we included their original timestamps.
We're not done working on Mod Notes and this feedback is super helpful as we continue to strategize and iterate on this feature!
Comment by CryptoMaximalist at 02/08/2022 at 23:04 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Agreed, #2 and availability on old/3rd party reddit are why our subs can't use mod notes yet, even though we very much want to
