modmail

Etymology

From mod + mail.

modmail means A messaging system on Reddit and similar discussion sites, used for communication between moderators and other users. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.

noun

A messaging system on Reddit and similar discussion sites, used for communication between moderators and other users.“They asked for simple things like updates to their “modmail,” the internal message tool that moderators use to manage their groups.”
A message sent through modmail.“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.”