Well, the point I'm trying to make is that this is the Community Forum. If you have a question for the moderators specifically, why would you ask the general public?
Also, you could use ModStalk, but not everyone uses extensions so I'm not really sure if there's a solution to that problem.
Posted by: JKKIII
Posted by: ctjl96
To put it simply, do you think they should be considered spam?
Personally, they irk me; logic dictates that if the OP has a question for the Mods and posts it in the Community, since we are not Mods, we can't actually answer the question. PM is better.
Multiple mods will check the Community Forum throughout the day. The odds that at least one mod will see your thread and reply are pretty good, compared to your suggestion. You can never know which mods are on at any given time, so if you just start PMing random mods, you never know when your PM will get read, much less replied to.
You could always look for threads that were recently locked, see if a mod posted in it, and then PM that mod, but the mod could have recently got off for the day/night.