• alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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    1 year ago

    Okay but is this level of aggression necessary for what is a reasonable concern? If you could provide this explanation, why couldn’t the moderator I responded to have provided it?

    i don’t think you’re going to get a satisfactory answer from me here, because i wouldn’t really consider the response you got unusually aggressive and i don’t disagree with Odo’s point as a general rule. in any case: from my perspective this is an interpersonal user dispute and not a big deal and i don’t see why i need to continue to intervene here past this reply. i’m only intervening at all because i want to clarify that we have literally no control over whether the mod/admin plate displays, and that accordingly users are going to have to be a bit conscientious of the context we say things in until we can toggle it or whatever.

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      1 year ago

      Okay, thank you for clarifying, I’m sure you’re busy so it means a lot that you replied at all.

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        1 year ago

        I’ll hop on just to add: the little plate that says “mod” can’t be turned off, but for us community moderators we can toggle a little shield icon when we’re trying to speak with the “mod voice.” We can only do it in our communities, but (I think) the admin team is by default modded in every community and should be able to toggle that shield wherever they are.

        So if you see the shield icon next to the name, that was intentionally toggled on to show they’re trying to speak as a mod and not just a community member. If you only see the little “mod” nameplate you can probably assume they’re just talking as a member of the community (unless context makes it obvious that they just forgot to turn on the shield).

        Edit: Here’s an example of how the shield icon looks to me from one of my posts; I’m on mobile with the darkly theme so it probably looks different to you unless you’re also on mobile, but hopefully still a useful example:

        a screenshot showing the mod shield next to my username

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            1 year ago

            Yeah that makes sense, I’m not a mod in this community. If you go to one of my comments on /c/science it should display I think (although it’s been a bit since I tried using Jerboa). Some of my comments there have the shield, some don’t (and actually I just realized the mod nameplate doesn’t render in the mobile web UI, but does on desktop… curious)

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              1 year ago

              Well, it does make sense that UI is a bit inconsistent, especially after alyaza brought the whole mod icon thing to my attention. Not like this is a unified, centralized platform.