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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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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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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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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What are some uncommon, but useful, rules for public forums?
So there are many rules that come to mind when establishing codes of conduct or user policies for forums - no spamming, hacking, etc. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with perhaps less ...
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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 and where to find a good community manager? [closed]
What are the criteria for being a good community manager?
What expectations can you have from a good community manager?
Where is the best place to look for someone to manage a starting
community?
Do ...
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Why is moderation important?
After trying to draw some attention to a community about the lag time in review queues being handled, I was met with this response from one of the users:
"I'm still confused why should I care ...
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How do I create a tag based community for our sdk and suite of softwares for our company?
We have our own set of SDKs.
We want to build out our community over StackOverflow for the developers.
What is the way to build such a community?
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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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What should a moderator do if a user posts content on a site that is well-meaning, but unfriendly in content?
A user posts questions and/or answers that are well-meaning, but unfriendly in content. Their posts get a lot of upvotes as well as a few flags. What should moderators do?
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How should I select a Lead Moderator from my mod team?
I have a small, diligent moderation team for a game I develop for and run. They handle problem users and organize events. They also act as a bridge between the community and myself, such that I'm made ...
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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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What should moderators do if a user joins the site just to share negativity on meta?
We have a network of 100+ Q&A sites where each site has an associated meta site. A user signs up on a new site and immediately starts posting questions on meta about how poorly the site engine ...
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How to stop a behaviour that certainly is negative but technically does not break the rules?
On a Q&A site a user occasionally breaks the rules a bit here and there, but not so that their posts get flagged. For example, they post comments like "It would be so great if moderators were ...