Private Message a Community to Contact Its Moderators

[zvi]

Title:
Private Message a Community to Contact Its Moderators

Area:
community administration, private messaging

Summary:
Allow users to private message a community account, and copy the pm to the administrators of the community.

Description:
Community administrators use several different hacks to allow members or non-members to contact the entire admin team: page-a-mod entries, private mailing lists, collective google accounts.

If communities had inboxes to which community admins had access, there would be a standard way for non-admins to contact the admins, and a way for the admins to communicate among themselves. This address would be automatically up to date as to who had administrative rights and who didn't, as outside mailing lists don't, and shared e-mail addresses can't.

I anticipate that the admins would be able to turn off the private message function completely, as is done for personal journals, and that anyone who was made administrator but had already rejected all personal private messages would still not receive copies of the community PMs, although they could, on the website, check the inbox.

Poll #2185 Private Message a Community to Contact Its Moderators

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 69

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Should be implemented as-is.
66 (95.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
3 (4.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[yvi]

Wait, do you want the community to have an inbox that can be accessed by the 'work as' options somehow or do you want to message to be copied to the admins? Or both?

EDIT: Okay, I think I understand that you mean both now.

[zvi]

Yes, I was intending that the inbox itself would be accessible from work as, and that all of the messages would be cc'd to the admins.

[msilverstar]

More communication tools for mods and maintainers sounds like a very good thing.

[eruthros]

This wold be great -- I'd love to have a message the admins option that automatically CCed the admins.

[cimorene]

It's so simple, yet so brilliant! *__*

[jeeps]

love this.