For background, the exact tool by which we sent the message was not technically a modmail but a ban tool, which can be accessed a couple ways. The ban tool always immediately copies the first line of text into the public log, but also creates a modmail for ongoing private discussion. In the same way, whenever anyone makes a comment deleted by a mod, the first line of the comment remains log-visible in those subs that have public logs. AFAIK all other modmail is private besides the first lines of ban notes (with the general disclaimer that admins and staff may see it, let alone hackers).
Again Andy, I apologize for not keeping this in mind and not forestalling this from happening while we were monitoring the new posts feed. It is our policy generally to write ban notes and modmail in a neutral voice, each approximating the voice of the other, so that stylistic analysis does not reveal which mod is performing the action. We both spotted the post at almost the same time and agreed to ban while keeping an open discussion on our options; but that strategy failed due to escalation, so please accept my apology.
Correct. We routinely distinguish between calling a person by a name and calling an action by a name, as we don't want to delete everything whatsoever, and degrees of gradation sometimes make the difference.
For background, the exact tool by which we sent the message was not technically a modmail but a ban tool, which can be accessed a couple ways. The ban tool always immediately copies the first line of text into the public log, but also creates a modmail for ongoing private discussion. In the same way, whenever anyone makes a comment deleted by a mod, the first line of the comment remains log-visible in those subs that have public logs. AFAIK all other modmail is private besides the first lines of ban notes (with the general disclaimer that admins and staff may see it, let alone hackers).
Again Andy, I apologize for not keeping this in mind and not forestalling this from happening while we were monitoring the new posts feed. It is our policy generally to write ban notes and modmail in a neutral voice, each approximating the voice of the other, so that stylistic analysis does not reveal which mod is performing the action. We both spotted the post at almost the same time and agreed to ban while keeping an open discussion on our options; but that strategy failed due to escalation, so please accept my apology.
Correct. We routinely distinguish between calling a person by a name and calling an action by a name, as we don't want to delete everything whatsoever, and degrees of gradation sometimes make the difference.
It looks like a nonconstant length under 200 characters. They appear in c/christianity/logs; mod's names and mod's user notes are not public.