The moderator will help drive the success of a community in many ways. A community moderator is who keeps the community alive and makes it motivating for the community members.
Required Readings
A clear understanding of the following is REQUIRED.
What are the roles and responsibilities of a moderator?
- Providing guidance to the community on acceptable behaviours
- Helping new users understand the community
- Monitoring for spam, inappropriate comments and harassment
- Monitoring the forums for violations of our Rules/Guidelines
- Ensuring users understand the Rules/Guidelines
- Explaining to users how they are breaking the Rules/Guidelines, warning them, and applying silences as needed
- Reporting major bugs, harmful community trends or other emergencies
- Reporting inappropriate names
- Reporting any permanent forum bans that may be needed
- Helping organize and keep the forums clean
- Adding relevant titles to the questions.
- Verifying questions and answers written by new members and checking the quality of the contents created
- Editing status of questions, answers and comments if required. Meaning, if a content is not following the rules of the community, a moderator has the right to hide, archive, or delete the content.
