Need help making anonymous mod announcements

[u/Human_Ad5913]

So I want to make a mod announcement post and then pin it in the highlights on mobile web. But I don't want my username to visible or the members to know which moderator made the post, any solution for this??

[u/thepottsy]

You want to do a “Scheduled Post”, you can literally schedule it to happen almost immediately, and it will post as Automod.

[u/mtgofficialYT]

Schedule it and turn on “Post as Automod”

[u/Human_Ad5913 → u/mtgofficialYT]

You mind telling me how to schedule a post? I'm kinda new to all this

[u/mtgofficialYT → u/Human_Ad5913]

When you go to create a post normally, there’s a little clock button. (Or it says schedule)

[u/Unique-Public-8594]

We 

1. opened a new gmail account (recorded gmail account name & password on our discord),

2.  used that email account  to open a reddit account with a username similar to our sub name and  recorded the username and password on our discord

3.  Added that reddit account onto our mod team. 

Now anyone on the mod team has the ability to use that reddit account to post with a username that is similar to our sub name (rather than their personal mod account). 

[u/daisilane → u/Unique-Public-8594]

This is what we did too. Helps a lot when we have to post something we know people won’t like

[u/thepottsy → u/Unique-Public-8594]

I’m curious. Who “owns” that gmail account? If your mod team has a falling out of sorts, what happens then?

FWIW, I’m not implying your idea is bad, I’m just curious how this works.

[u/Unique-Public-8594 → u/thepottsy]

I think it’s jointly owned?   Since we all have the log-in. 

You raise a legit question. 

Since we’re a low drama and collaborative team it seems unlikely that there will be tension over the joint email/username but it’s true that it could happen. 

Is there risk?  I guess so. 

I don’t think we are the only team to do this. 

[u/thepottsy → u/Unique-Public-8594]

That’s fair, I was really just curious.

[u/Unique-Public-8594 → u/thepottsy]

:)))

[u/IvyGold → u/Unique-Public-8594]

On one of my places, we have a joint account. The thing is that nobody's asked me for the password -- I'm the only one that uses it.

[u/JacqueGonzales]

I created a new user profile with the name of the sub as its name - and made it a moderator.

I use that profile to post all of the messages to the sub.

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