Mastodon: Silenced users should be able DM admins (and mods, when applicable)

[Rushyo]

Presently users cannot send direct messages to admins when silenced, unless those admins follow them. This means a user has great difficulty becoming un-silenced if the reasons for the silence are no longer applicable. Unfortunately if mods started following all the users they silenced, that information could be harvested and used to cause a ruckus. It would be desirable to have DMs always received by mods/admins, even if the user in question is silenced globally (unless, of course, they're blocked at a user level)

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• [Y] I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.
• [ ] This bug happens on a tagged release and not on master (If you're a user, don't worry about this).

[Laurelai]

But make sure to allow for an option for mods/admins to silence them from PM'ing them to prevent thos feature from being exploited by trolls

[Rushyo]

If a user is harassing an admin then I'm finding it hard to imagine a scenario where they wouldn't end up suspended instead.

[Laurelai]

An account compromised by a hacker. On a small instance like mine i can easily track who is who. Silencing them prevents them from doing harm with the account until i can get it back to the original owner.

[Rushyo]

Good point, well made ^_^