Comment by Khyta on 08/03/2022 at 05:22 UTC

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Announcing Mod Notes

Friends, Moderators, Redditors - lend me your screentime.

A major goal of the Moderator Experience team this year is to close the feature parity gap between the native mod tools we provide on the site and the ones third-party developers build for Moderators. Today we’re taking a big first step on this quest and are beyond excited[1] to announce the launch of Mod Notes 1.0.

=> 1: https://i.redd.it/giox6h3awuk81.gif

We are incredibly appreciative of all the hard work various third-party developers have undertaken over the years, and this new feature was largely influenced by our interactions with Toolbox, SnooNotes, and the many conversations we had with moderators across Reddit. Without further ado - let’s pull the curtain back and dive into the details:

=> Desktop Experience

The profile hovercard will be your home base for accessing Mod Notes and any moderator with Manage User permissions will be able to utilize it. This will be rolling out to subreddits gradually throughout the day, and at launch we want moderators to be able to accomplish several core functions from this hovercard:

• Add a note: Clicking this button will allow you the ability to add a note for that specific user. After adding a note, you will be able to choose from one of 5 labels to add to the newly created note. Those labels are Helpful, Good Contributor, Spam Watch, Spam Warning, and Abuse Warning. All of these labels have their own unique icon and color scheme. You will then have the ability to filter between these different labels.
• Ban: ~~We’re giving you a bigger ban hammer.~~ We’ve now made it easier to ban users from a subreddit by making the button[2] more prominent.
• Send a modmail: This button will open up modmail, making it easier to send a message to a user. We’re in the preliminary stages of scoping out the work it would take to make this button send a modmail to a specific user directly (i.e., we would prepopulate the necessary user information required to do this).
• User mod log: This is a log of all the notes and mod actions applied to a user within a specific subreddit. These will automatically appear in Mod Notes because they’re considered a Mod Log entry.
• API integration: We understand how important it is for you to be able to access and utilize this information in ways that make sense for you (cough old reddit cough). In order to do so, we’ve developed an API solution so you can use the information in the mod notes in more ways. Mods will have an endpoint to create, read, and delete a mod note all under a new OAuth scope. The documentation will live alongside the rest of the public API here[3].
• Import notes: Whether you’re using Toolbox or SnooNotes, mod teams will be able to import their old notes into our native system via this API integration. We want to give a special thanks to u/Meepster23 who took the time to sit down with us to work on an import solution for SnooNotes. This will involve some technical work on your side of things (i.e., writing a script) as we want to ensure you have flexibility here rather than providing a one-off solution. The script should iterate through your old notes (such as through a CSV/JSON file) and send a POST request with all the details that should be imported. The imported note will not carry over the old timestamp so if you’re importing a lot of notes for a single user it is possible that some of your existing notes will be deleted to make room (due to the 1000 note limit per user). In addition, the imported note will set the author of the note from the API token (in other words, whoever is running the script) and that author must have the correct moderator permission (“Manage users”). It is recommended that you run the script in batches due to our rate limiter which allows 30 requests/minute.

• The future of Mod Notes*

=> 2: https://i.redd.it/mwatcz080vk81.gif | 3: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api

Before we tire ourselves out high fiving each other, it’s worth stressing that our work on Mod Notes is far from finished. While phase one is complete, we have a list of features we are looking into developing as we continue to iterate on Mod Notes throughout the remainder of this year. Those features include but are not limited to things like:

• Delete a note: The ability for moderators to remove a mod note is at the top of our to-do list. You should expect this capability soon.
• Cross-platform parity: We want you to be able to utilize Mod Notes on your desktop and mobile devices (see below for our mobile prototype).
• Pinned notes: A feature request we heard on during our round of calls and feedback.
• Integration within modmail and various post types: As we continue to evolve the ways Redditors communicate with each other on the site we want you to be able to apply Mod Notes within places like Modmail, Reddit Talk, Chat, etc.

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=> Mobile Mod Notes Example (coming soon!)

This feature has been months in the making, and we couldn’t have achieved this launch without the assistance of many individuals[4]. First and foremost, thank you to all the third-party developers that have taken the time to build tools for Reddit’s moderators over the years. As mentioned, this native version of Mod Notes was largely inspired by all the work you have done. Additionally, we want to thank the members of r/RedditModCouncil who took the time to jump on multiple calls with us, respond to product posts, and provide us with mission-critical feedback. Lastly, we’d like to thank the various mod teams that participated in beta testing this feature out in the wild over the past couple of weeks. All of your feedback was tremendously helpful and will help guide future iterations of this feature.

=> 4: https://i.redd.it/o9uqx6lq4vk81.gif

• Questions?*

As always, we’d love to hear your initial thoughts, see your best Bill Murray gifs, and address any questions that you might have. Please let us know in the comments below where we’ll be hanging out[5].

=> 5: https://i.redd.it/uwypob3tdvk81.gif

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=> Comment by nascentt at 08/03/2022 at 09:48 UTC*

11 upvotes, 1 direct replies

It's nice of you.but you shouldn't have to copy paste reddits own posts because their app is so shit.