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I'd say whatever you do, don't do the second item. It'd be better to have it reviewed by a moderator... There are valid times that swearwords or words that look like swearwords are used: In Austria …

I'm a moderator for an IRC channel that has recently devolved into much off-topic chatter. I'd like to guide the focus of the community back to the topic of the channel, but don't want to be harsh to …

You are obligated to tell your members about a security breach that happened. Reset all of your passwords! It doesn't really matter what kind of hack it was, or if the attacker ever got near your we …

I don't think there is a real way to control this as that's like attracting only rich people to your restaurant. A few things that you can do: Make quality guidelines to ensure that good content ge …

I put the following message in my user profile on Stack Overflow: Questions about moderator actions on Stack Overflow should still be posted on Meta Stack Overflow. This is right in the same par …

Let someone else do it. This is to preserve not only the integrity of the moderation of the site, but the friendships of you and your peers. Don't moderate people you know - if you think something's …

Moderators should not receive any "points" or "badgers" or whatever for destructive actions but for constructive ones. Destructive actions are: deleted post, banned an user and so on. Constructive a …

Think about all the commercials you see on television. All those new products that companies want you to buy. Just about anything nowadays will have a money-back guarantee, and will say something alon …

A long-standing rule of thumb is that a user who wants to avoid a ban will find a way to avoid the ban. At the end of the day, getting rid of ban evaders is a battle you cannot win. You can only make …

Consider these two points: If you let the community decide who gets kicked out, you have a popularity contest or mob rule. If your site has moderators, it's because they have been entrusted to care …

On the site that I moderate we occasionally get spam posts, varying from SEO spam to blogspam to outright discount Rolex spam. While the latter is generally easy to recognize, the former two are often …

If you really can't delete old or out of date content but you want to prevent arguments over it then your only action is to put the posts into such a state that they can't be edited, voted on, comment …

Rules should be explicit as possible, but there will always be people who try to get round the rules and will try to interpret them to their benefit. There is nothing you can do to stop this. All you …

Start with doing a data dump of everything you can. If the site administrator is truly off-line, the site going off-line is an immanent threat. Presumably as a moderator you have access to the forum b …

If you make rules to address every situation that comes up, you'll be making rules forever (because users will keep coming up with new ideas) and then you'll end up with a large, unmanageable pile of …