u/Dalimey (who appropriately identifies as "LAWFUL STUPID" shared a warning from reddit admins issuing their final warning against making the sub NSFW (despite the fact that the users of the sub are in full support). They promised to reply to it with "roll for persuasion or intimidation" if they got 10k upvotes, and here is the result. Outstanding move.

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[–] 183 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

For what it's worth, the admins won't actually see that, they disabled responses on those messages. That's why it says "private moderator note", it's a note only the mod team can see

(It's still funny, though)

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  • [–] 104 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I just assumed admins can see the private mod notes.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Admins can see absolutely everything on the site, I assume

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Technically they have the ability to do anything there, whether they have dedicated tools to make it easy or worth while is likely a different story. Also heavily depends on functionality of the site.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    That is correct, though there is a difference between deliberately editing comments in the database and getting pinged for a response. If the system doesn't tell or notify them explicitly that the person replied and they're not looking for a reply they just won't see it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    I just assume admins have access to prod databases and can run queries against it.

    SELECT * FROM saved WHERE username = 'noodle';

    UPDATE post SET link = "https://youtube.com/rickroll" WHERE username = 'noodle';

    That kinda thing.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    Can? Yes. Do they? Probably not.

    You can go the NCD route and actively send a response (in their case it really was justified as the sub should have been nsfw to begin with), but in the end they also folded.

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