TL;DR: Should moderation be added to questions about the general practices of using moderation privileges in Super User? Could it be better to create a new tag, i.e. "community practices" or "best practices"?
What are the available features that help to find discussions about the current rules, policies, and workings (aka community standards) for using the moderation privileges of Super User?
As long-time users know, Super User is part of The Trilogy of four (Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, and the first Meta). This meta site has some relatively recent posts related to interactions with OPs (answering, commenting, flagging, etc.)
There are 14 questions with faq. Still, other questions that do not have this tag discussing the use of moderation privileges might have important insights about how these privileges are better used in Super User.
Some posts do not have faq; having moderation, might be worth reading by new users and probably all who use their moderation privileges. Below there are a few examples (newest first):
- Continuous overuse of moderation rights
- How to handle users appropriating other users' correct answers
- Should I handle rude fragments myself? or is it better to get moderator involved?
Other posts do not have faq and not moderation but have tags about moderation privileges like flagging, close-reasons, vote-to-close.
Finding the most relevant post about using the moderation privileges looks to be hard as but these tags also are used in posts about specific questions, feature-request, bug, and support. Below there are a few examples:
No tags
flagging, close-votes, close-reasons, policy
- What details do you need? Or please stop voting to close as “Needs details or clarity”!
- We have bad question closing habits
- Removing clutter in unclear questions with many clarifying comments
I think that tag faq, should be reserved for community rules and policies that have an authoritative status and are about the community standards, not for discussions about best practices or about the community aspirations (stuff that goes beyond the minimum that is expected from people that use the moderation privileges).
Community Building
Community Building Stack Exchange has rules-and-polices, community-standards, among other tags.
rules-and-policies
For questions about creating, changing, clarifying rules or policies for a community or group of communities.
community-standards
The rules that a community must follow.
The idea is to make it easier to find discussions about the workings of Super User that might not be the same as other sites, and that might have evolved over time.
Related
Community Building
- How to handle user whose heavy participation causes minority of bad contributions to be a drain on moderator resources?
- How much effort should be put forth in directing new users who post without familiarity?
Meta Stack Exchange
Newest first.
- Can you do a better job of informing new meta users of the MSE M-child difference?
- Are there best practices for individual sites to use their per-site-meta [faq] tag? (no answers)
- How do per-site Metas differ from Meta Stack Exchange, and where should I go to ask my question?
- How is consensus determined on Meta sites?
Stack Overflow Meta
Answer to When and how do mature [faq-proposed] posts graduate to [faq]?