modmails

Noun

modmail (countable and uncountable, plural modmails)

1. (uncountable) A messaging system on Reddit and similar discussion sites, used for communication between moderators and other users.
   • They asked for simple things like updates to their “modmail,” the internal message tool that moderators use to manage their groups.2018, Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms, New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You, Doubleday, →ISBN
2. (countable) A message sent through modmail.
   • In addition to reporting comments, Crossmod is designed to support a range of other functionalities: to send alerts to moderators in case of particularly sensitive topics (in the form of modmails), or to proactively remove comments that garner very high abuse scores computed by the pre-trained...2019, Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Chaitrali Gandhi, Matthew Wortley Mustelier, Eric Gilbert, “Crossmod: A Cross-Community Learning-based System to Assist Reddit Moderators”, in Proceedings of the ACM on...