Edit: @[email protected] Contacted the moderator who did it on my behalf who admitted that this was a mistake, he sends his apologies. This incident though does highlight though the need for ban notifications as well as the need for a modmail system to contact community and site moderators.
I have left the post up with the original contents bellow as I feel it would be wrong to delete the post and rob people of the valuable information it contains, both in the post itself and in the comment section.
I messaged a mod from the community, not sure if that was the one who did it but this was weird. Not sure if it’s power-tripping probably a mistake but it’s certainly weird and seems like a knee jerk reaction since I didn’t have activity in those last 10 days (I checked for votes too). Also no other bans in the modlog for “sock puppet account” so I don’t even know why I would be singled out.
Why would someone think I was a sock puppet account? Because I have multiple accounts on different instances? Really weird…
Account is @[email protected], I didn’t post from that account since I try to keep each account on each separate instance (helps prevent accidental vote manipulation).
Modmail is much more of a gamble because you don’t know if you potentially get the abusive mod on the other end, claiming to speak for the whole team.
Back on Reddit, the whole team saw modmail, even if another mod already responded to it. Also, I think the mod responses were visible to other mods.
I guess that says a lot about the quality of Reddit mods then.
It used to be like that, but now a single reddit mod can archive any modmail, which generally prevents other mods from seeing it.
Maybe unlike Reddit don’t allow Mods to hide their responses to the user. That way if they are abusive or unfair user can take that and go snitch to the admins.
It should connect you to whoever took the action. If you have relevant discussion or protest or clarification you should be able to get straight to the source.