"reply to this message" goes nowhere?

When you request revision on a post, the user gets a DM like this from the system:

The message says to reply if the user has questions but it is just a thread with @system. When the user replies it seems like it is just sent to the void of system’s inbox, no admin notifications or changes to the reviewable.


This is sort of trivial but I think it would make sense to either notify the admin in some way, include @moderators in the automated message, or remove the string entirely.

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Good catch! This issue is related to the site setting site_contact_username and site_contact_group_name — when either are set, they’re who would be included on these messages. But when they’re not, it falls back to system, which is a dead end if no one is monitoring it.

The simplest thing to do would not include that info about the reply in the case when a contact isn’t set.

So when a contact user/group is set it says:

You can edit your original post below and re-submit to make the suggested changes, or reply to this message if you have any questions.

And when one’s not set, it’s just:

You can edit your original post below and re-submit to make the suggested changes.

I’ve opened a PR to do this here:

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