r/ModSupport

Just received my first dodgy message re - shared below verbatim.

It was via Linkedin and they shared an example 'sponsored' post on another sub.

Hey Alex
Thanks for connecting.
Do you accept sponsorships on your subreddits?

Mods job is to approve the post, remove the comments we mark, and then lock the post when we ask them to. And we pay them

I removed the link they shared as an example on a different sub, as I'd not like them to have a heads up that I'm very much against this sort of thing.

Best way to proceed? Anyone have contacts on Reddit who can:
a. Get this person blocked (by escalating and following the accounts on the 'sponsored post' link they shared
b. Prevent this from happening on other subs in some way?

I'm quite shocked. Perhaps I was naive.

Edit: Quote wasn't properly wrapped.

Responded to a modmail today as my own username, because that's apparently now the default and you have to specify every single time...

That modmail was in response to a troll who has been harassing our mod team for several days now. And now they know my username. So that's going to be fun...

Why on earth would you even consider making modmail responses *default* to mods' usernames, when the entire **point** of being able to respond as the "mod team" was to help mods reduce the amount of harassment we receive from users????

I'm a mod for that's dedicated to language learning. There's a large number of language-related subs with Reddit, so this is a rather relevant request.

There should be a way to turn off auto translation for a sub, because discussing language-related details using specifically crafted text examples that are then automatically translated without even informing the user, totally misses the point.