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Tagged with moderators rules-and-policies
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When should you stop trying to reach a consensus with a user over a decision you have made?
As a moderator, you are inevitably faced with users who legitimately have problems with decisions you make. Often, you may be able to discuss the decision with them and reach a consensus, but ...
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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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How to handle lack of policy consistency between moderators?
Until recently I was related to a team of about 30 moderators on a kind of chat server.
The official rules pretty much only include "Be nice" and "Do not post advertisment links twice per day". There ...
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What should we do with a user who is using powers, solely given for technical tasks, to overreach and enforce rules?
We run a MediaWiki, where we have a good, contributing user who agreed to be given temporary powers as an administrator, explicitly with the instructions to only manage the protection and erasure of a ...
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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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How can I prevent the abuse of the reporting feature?
In my community we have an option to report a post breaking our rules and moderators to review them. Now we are having two major problems with this lately:
Users start to report an awful lot of posts ...
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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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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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Would reporting a violating comment beneficial if it has a rule reminder?
In the subreddit Change My View, a person give a response why my view wouldn't work. I give a response to them, and this is how it goes:
- Yeah, this only supports everything I said before
- can ...
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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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