Questions tagged [moderators]
Use this tag for questions relating to moderators, their selection, their training, and their interaction with users.
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Where I can post a survey on backend development?
I'm doing research on backend development for a product I'm working on.
I would like to know where I can ask developers to take my survey on StackEchange. I'm looking for a good topic without looking ...
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How should I resolve a disagreement with another moderator?
I am one of several moderators on my site. Sometimes another moderator handles an issue in a way I disagree with strongly -- deleted something, closed a question I thought should stay open, etc. For ...
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How do you deal with users that don't break the rules, but are always walking the line?
We had several users that tried very hard to walk just above the line of breaking the rules and not actually break them.
How should they be handled?
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How can I promote my site/forum?
As a moderator on a young Stack Exchange site, I've been wondering how I can promote my site. This is a general question, so it shouldn't be Stack Exchange specific. Many forum moderators face this ...
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Why is minimodding bad?
A minimod is:
"A normal forum poster that takes it upon themselves to push forum rules and tell everybody how to conduct themselves instead of leaving it up to the mods. Typically reserved for ...
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How to avoid being put on a pedestal by users?
I am aware that my high-visibility position in the community means that I am under higher scrutiny, and that I should act with more responsibility than the regular users. But the question is not about ...
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Advantages and disadvantages of using rank advancement for selecting moderators
I am part of an online non-Stack Exchange community. For the past two years, it has been ruled as a "benevolent dictatorship" by the founder with nearly all issues handled personally by her, ...
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How can I tell if I should step down as a moderator?
Most sites require moderators to dedicate a portion of time daily to help with the workload. Stack Overflow Moderators are required to dedicate at least 30 minutes a day to help.
My offsite ...
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How reasonable is it to hold chatbot authors accountable for their bots' behavior?
In a non-Stack Exchange online community, there is a chatbot that runs with the permission of the administrators. The primary purpose of the bot is to analyze the posts of others and suggest helpful ...
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Should I intervene if my community acts contrary to its own policies?
I am a moderator on Cooking Stack Exchange. Our activity is quite low compared to the tech-oriented sites on the network, but we do have a bunch of users with sufficient reputation to cast close votes,...
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Several communities on one platform. How can moderators adjust the behaviour of a new user from a different community who has just joined my site?
We have a network of 100+ Q&A sites. A user active elsewhere on the network joins a new community and starts posting non-friendly answers and comments. A moderator contacts the user. The user ...
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Is it an abuse of mod powers to reveal aspects of user behaviour should users wish to apply to be moderators?
As a current moderator we get to view many actions that users carry out that are not visible to regular users (primarily speaking we know the type of posts that they flag and sometimes the type of ...
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What should be done for the safety of the community when a member is suspected of their behavior?
WARNING: This question will mention cases such as self-harm.
I am building the setup of the community I have been planning to put together for a year now: It's called "Hear Me Rant". The ...
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How does someone get a job as a community manager or social media person? How do you even define your skills?
I have been volunteering my time as a Facebook admin for both page and groups (I am a FB power admin), YouTube moderator (particularly for live streams), and for a largeish subreddit (>500k) as a ...
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How frequently or infrequently should one moderate their site?
New moderators for new sites can at times be overeager and over-moderate, and spend more time than they should on their site(s), neglecting other priorities (or vice versa, too focused on life to ...
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