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On moderator dashboard each item can contain a last moderator's reaction. That helps a lot prior handling that item by another moderator. But sometimes it's confusing (image taken from SO in Russian):

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On the image above last moderator's action is "added comment". Actually, comment was posted by the regular user from review queue and authored by Community user, who is considered by system as a moderator.

Currently, this behavior results in actions taken by actual moderators being displaced by these comments. The view should always show actions performed by real moderators or the system in response to automated actions, not actions taken by normal users and simply attributed to the Community user.

Such type of reaction should not be considered as a "moderator action". Probably the easiest way to fix this here is to not treat Community user as a moderator.

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  • I'm pretty sure this is as-designed.
    – Karl Knechtel
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 6:40
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    @KarlKnechtel broken design should be fixed, don't think so? Or it isn't broken at all?
    – αλεχολυτ
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 6:42
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    A bug, strictly speaking, is when something doesn't work as it's designed. If something does work as it's designed, even though the design is flawed, it's not, strictly speaking, a bug.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 7:25
  • Correct, many people think downvotes are a bug, for example.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 7:26
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    It is a platform moderating action whose aims to protect the user's identity, therefore being properly attributed to the Community moderator
    – Augusto Vasques
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 7:26
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    @AugustoVasques True, but since the actual action is by a normal user, it shouldn't displace an action taken by an actual moderator. For instance, a moderator may have edited it and the user rolled the edit back.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 7:32
  • @SonictheAnonymousHedgehog. My mistake, I didn't realize this bot has no moderator status.
    – Augusto Vasques
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 7:50
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    @AugustoVasques It does have moderator status. It casts binding votes in many cases. The "Mod" mark is hidden, but it is, internally, a moderator.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 7:51
  • My point is that you may have a hard time convincing people that this design is broken, because it seems that there was conscious reasoning behind it at the time.
    – Karl Knechtel
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 8:39
  • @Sonic Summarizing: Community user is a moderator, but not listed as moderator and doesn't have a "mod" badge, but internally it's a moderator. Then, should we consider mod-dashboard as an internal tool that must reflect internal status of Community user? If not, I think the current question should be tagged as bug, not a feature-request.
    – αλεχολυτ
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 8:49
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    Well, some Community user actions are useful to list as the last mod action, such as being deleted by the Roomba scripts if the post has recently been undeleted by the community so a mod can tell if it'll be re-deleted, and various other actions.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Commented Jul 24, 2023 at 8:57
  • Related: Why does the moderator interface claim this question was closed by Community while it wasn't?
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Mar 23 at 8:34

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