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modmail

noun

Etymology

From mod + mail.

  1. derived from *molko-✻
  2. derived from *malhō✻
  3. derived from *malhu✻ — “bag”
  4. derived from male
  5. derived from male
  6. inherited from male
  7. compounded as modmail — “mod + mail”

Definitions

  1. A messaging system on Reddit and similar discussion sites, used for communication between…

    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.
    • She mostly kept to protocol when issues arose here and elsewhere, trying to message moderators through modmail, the internal Reddit mail system, where she was sometimes known as Alex.
    • We used this modmail feature to contact the moderators thereafter.

  2. A message sent through modmail.

    • Yet they still faced pressure from many their community to join the blackout: “we eventually released the statement after we received dozens of modmails and posts on both subreddits.”
    • Meanwhile, the team discussed the reports as the modmails flooded in and continued to collaborate on the post about the history of police violence.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for modmail. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA