I’ll hop on just to add: the little plate that says “mod” can’t be turned off, but for us community moderators we can toggle a little shield icon when we’re trying to speak with the “mod voice.” We can only do it in our communities, but (I think) the admin team is by default modded in every community and should be able to toggle that shield wherever they are.
So if you see the shield icon next to the name, that was intentionally toggled on to show they’re trying to speak as a mod and not just a community member. If you only see the little “mod” nameplate you can probably assume they’re just talking as a member of the community (unless context makes it obvious that they just forgot to turn on the shield).
Edit: Here’s an example of how the shield icon looks to me from one of my posts; I’m on mobile with the darkly theme so it probably looks different to you unless you’re also on mobile, but hopefully still a useful example:
Yeah that makes sense, I’m not a mod in this community. If you go to one of my comments on /c/science it should display I think (although it’s been a bit since I tried using Jerboa). Some of my comments there have the shield, some don’t (and actually I just realized the mod nameplate doesn’t render in the mobile web UI, but does on desktop… curious)
Well, it does make sense that UI is a bit inconsistent, especially after alyaza brought the whole mod icon thing to my attention. Not like this is a unified, centralized platform.
I’ll hop on just to add: the little plate that says “mod” can’t be turned off, but for us community moderators we can toggle a little shield icon when we’re trying to speak with the “mod voice.” We can only do it in our communities, but (I think) the admin team is by default modded in every community and should be able to toggle that shield wherever they are.
So if you see the shield icon next to the name, that was intentionally toggled on to show they’re trying to speak as a mod and not just a community member. If you only see the little “mod” nameplate you can probably assume they’re just talking as a member of the community (unless context makes it obvious that they just forgot to turn on the shield).
Edit: Here’s an example of how the shield icon looks to me from one of my posts; I’m on mobile with the darkly theme so it probably looks different to you unless you’re also on mobile, but hopefully still a useful example:
To respond to your edit, I do not see a mod symbol next to your name. Using Jerboa.
Yeah that makes sense, I’m not a mod in this community. If you go to one of my comments on /c/science it should display I think (although it’s been a bit since I tried using Jerboa). Some of my comments there have the shield, some don’t (and actually I just realized the mod nameplate doesn’t render in the mobile web UI, but does on desktop… curious)
Well, it does make sense that UI is a bit inconsistent, especially after alyaza brought the whole mod icon thing to my attention. Not like this is a unified, centralized platform.