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| Moderator Duties |
| Your duties are to enforce the site’s infraction list where necessary and bring conversation and new posts to the forum they moderate. You are expected to visit your own forum as well as the Mods and Admins forum whenever you log in. We require that you visit at least once per week. A consistent low attendance rate will likely cause you to lose your job. |
| Following the rules |
| You must follow all of the same rules that regular members must follow in addition to the ones listed here. You do not get special treatment for being moderators and will receive infractions for your wrongdoings. If you find yourself receiving lots of infractions, you may be removed from your position. |
| Privacy and Confidentiality |
| You may not for any reason share or quote information that was posted in #modz (the irc channel) or the Mods and Admins forum or sub-forums. Sharing information with anyone who is not already a moderator or administrator is also forbidden. If there is something that you would really like to relay to a member, send a private message to an admin and ask permission (if you've got a good reason, we're more than willing to give you the go-ahead). Otherwise, what is posted in the mods-only areas stays there. |
| Arguing with other mods |
Moderators can hate each other as much as they like - as long as you can work together well enough to get the job done. If your dislike of each other ever gets in the way of your (or someone else's) job, you will have exactly one warning before you’re removed.
In public:
In this kind of work, disagreements are bound to happen occasionally, and you are allowed to disagree with your co-workers - both mods and supers/admins. Even doing so in public is allowed to a degree. It's a problem, however, when someone decides to make somebody else's job more difficult, rather than handling the problem in a productive manner. Trying to sabotage or hinder the person you disagree with rather than actually trying to fix the problem is a quick and easy way to lose your moderator position. If you have a problem with another staff member, talk to them about it. If they refuse to listen, or if your differences cannot be resolved, take it to an admin or M&A. Running to the forums and making an "OMG MODXYZ is such a terrible mod" thread, trolling a co-mod's section, or riling up users to undermine a co-mod are things that we don't want to see happening, and which will get you into trouble. We want people to be able to speak their minds (even if their opinion is an unpopular one), but we also need to work together as a team, like adults.
The Bottom Line:
communicate with each other, and try to settle your differences like adults. If your arguing with co-workers is preventing you or someone else from doing their jobs effectively, you're doing it wrong. |
| AWOL mods |
If for any reason you need to take an extended amount of time off you should let us know in M&A - if it's a very long time, you may want to even nominate a temporary replacement, just to be proactive. If you do not tell us that you’re going to be away, we may have no choice but to label you "missing" and find a replacement for you.
Moderators should be checking their forums and M&A at least once every couple of days (or more, depending on the section you mod) - it is highly advised that you do so more often than that. Part of your job is to stimulate new conversation in your forum and it is quite difficult to do when you only visit once per week. Remember, as a moderator you’re not just a janitor - you’re a poster, and even a leader. |
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