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Use this tag for questions relating to moderators, their selection, their training, and their interaction with users.

3 votes

How can you estimate the number of moderators needed in a community?

This way you can wait a while to make sure that there's an actual need for sixteen moderators. Keep in mind that SO has millions of users and only 17 moderators. … Arduino SE (which I'm a part of) has roughly two thousand users and three moderators. …
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How can I tell if I should step down as a moderator?

First of all, if you have a superior, talk to them. They should be able to guide you some. Other than that: If it's temporary (i.e. a few months), you might just have to see if the other mods can p …
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30 votes
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How to handle moderation of users known personally?

It could make other moderators cautions or skeptical, making this entire thing a bigger deal than it needs to be. I don't see any real advantage to doing this. Just, please, don't do this. …
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How to attract experts of the field to my community?

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 …
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9 votes

Community Leader is not productive and hurts site growth

An alternative approach to Andy's answer is much less direct. His approach is great if nothing else works, but if that approach fails, it may cause some irreversible damage. I'm guessing this person m …
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How to save our community from being turned into an anarchist crackpot forum by an evil admi...

Really the best thing probably is to get the owner at least aware of this issue. If it is as bad as you're saying (that it might tear your community apart/damage it), they should at least be aware of …
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3 votes

My co-workers don't understand what moderation means

You have to sell this to the other moderators and to the owners that this "boring stuff" is important to the community, and it leads to new opportunities. Some will follow, some won't. …
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When is it acceptable to single out a user?

In a physical community, I've often wondered when it's crossing the line when calling out a specific user upon their behavior after general "warnings." I've personally never done it, but I was wonderi …
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