The discussion revolves around the inconsistency in displaying user participants in automated private messages (PMs) for flagged posts. erlend_sh shared screenshots illustrating the issue, where the sender and moderator are listed differently. He also suggested that groups, like moderators, should be listed as participants.
A related feature request emerged, with sam and erlend_sh agreeing on the need to allow specifying an avatar for a group. Mittineague raised concerns about visualizing group avatars, prompting codinghorror to suggest using logos as group identifiers.
The conversation continued with mcwumbly proposing the idea of ‘user cards’ for groups, which sam deemed a possibility, highlighting the conceptual overlap between users and groups.
So @Falco flagged a post and I acted on it, which results in a PM with an original sender and a reply from a moderator.
Here’s what I see on my end:
Here’s what he sees on his end:
That doesn’t seem right.
p.s. Especially with the advent of improved group mentions, should a Group also be listed as a participant in the user list? Before any individual moderator has acted on the PM, this is a PM between @userX and @moderators.
I think treating Moderators as just another user to list in the participants list makes sense as a way to see at a glance who can see this message.
Consider a professional (American) football team. There’s a group identified by a logo, the one on their helmets, yes? Whereas the individual people would be identified by their player numbers on their jerseys, or an avatar of their faces?
