"modmail" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: modmails [plural]
Etymology: From mod + mail. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|mod|mail}} mod + mail Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} modmail (countable and uncountable, plural modmails)
  1. (uncountable) A messaging system on Reddit used for communication between moderators and other Redditors. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Reddit
    Sense id: en-modmail-en-noun-bkJlv5Np Disambiguation of Reddit: 96 4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 91 9
  2. (countable) A message sent through modmail. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-modmail-en-noun-hpnAO8fn

Inflected forms

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          "text": "In addition to reporting comments, Crossmod is designed to support a range of other functionalities: to send alerts to moderators in case of particularly sensitive topics (in the form of modmails), or to proactively remove comments that garner very high abuse scores computed by the pre-trained machine learning models described in Section 4.3.",
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          "ref": "2019, J. Nathan Matias, “The Civic Labor of Volunteer Moderators Online”, in Social Media + Society, →DOI:",
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