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How would you improve the community as an in game moderator?
How moderators can make your community a better place
- Empower internal and external experts.
- Build routine maintenance and quality assurance into the process.
- Establish a process for escalating a comment or feedback to the right internal teams.
- Think creatively to leverage moderators’ power across the board.
What do community moderators do?
Online community moderators monitor discussion and debate on a website or internet forum. Many moderators for business-related communities also perform other customer service-oriented tasks, such as answering emails and resolving payment problems.
What makes a good community moderator?
A large part of becoming a good online community moderator is knowing how to strike the balance between controlling conversations to maintain order, contributing to keep conversations fresh, and giving members, employees or customers enough freedom to feel like they can express themselves.
Why is it essential moderators are understanding of the members of the community?
A moderator ensures that barriers (if any) to participation and discussions are removed while also ensuring that the members stay cordial and respectful while contributing their points. Communities get better and develop when they have good moderation.
How do I become an online moderator?
Experience aside (some companies may require experience) someone who wants to apply for online moderator jobs should have:
- Excellent written language skills.
- Basic knowledge of how social media pages, chat rooms, message boards, and forum sites work.
- Basic computer skills.
- A working computer.
- High-speed internet connection.
What is the responsibility of moderator?
A discussion moderator or debate moderator is a person whose role is to act as a neutral participant in a debate or discussion, holds participants to time limits and tries to keep them from straying off the topic of the questions being raised in the debate.
What are the roles of a moderator?
Why do we need moderators?
A forum moderator oversees the communication activity. They monitor the exchange between participants and move discussions from one topic to another to keep conversation organized. Public forum moderators often have to enforce many rules of conduct and decorum.
Why is moderation difficult in a community forum?
Moderation in a community forum is tricky business. Why? Well, firstly because doing it well requires excellent judgment and social intuition. Second, being a moderator seems to be wildly appealing to people who lack either of those traits. Disagree?
What’s the role of a moderator in a community?
As a community member, and a moderator, you have the role and responsibility to stay aware and be accountable for your contributions in this space. As a leader, you are representing Mozilla and it’s community. As a SUMO community member and forum moderator: I accept and promise to follow all the above guidelines.
Who is responsible for moderation on Mozilla support forums?
This is an contract between your use of the Mozilla Support Forums and Mozilla. As a community member, and a moderator, you have the role and responsibility to stay aware and be accountable for your contributions in this space.
What makes a good moderator for a forum?
Second, being a moderator seems to be wildly appealing to people who lack either of those traits. Disagree? Pick a bad forum anywhere on the internet and somewhere along the line you’re likely to find moderators who are either apathetic, incompetent, bullies or all of the above.