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Who should the temporary moderators be?
As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing this as a stopgap, while communities are forming, so Codidact staff don't have to handle all the flags (some of which we might not understand because y'all are the experts, not us).
Rather than us just picking people, we'd like your input: who should these initial moderators be? I say "initial" -- the community should plan to do something more formal and permanent later, when it's larger, but in the meantime, we need a couple of people who are able to lead this community's early activity and take care of housekeeping.
What do moderators do? Aside from the community-leadership aspect already mentioned, on Codidact they:
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handle flags
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have all the tools -- close/reopen, delete/undelete, locks, user warnings/suspensions when needed (rare we hope), and more
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create and edit help topics, so you have a place to put policies, guidance, etc
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act as representatives of the community when requesting features from the Codidact team. There are some things, like creating new categories or changing configurable site settings, that require admin access. Mods are the people we want those requests to come from. (If it's something big, we'll ask you to show us community consensus, for example a well-received meta post.)
Moderators do not have access to users' PII. (I don't even have access to users' PII. We try to keep that locked down for everyone's safety.)
Please use answers here for nominations. You can nominate yourself or others -- one candidate per post. If someone nominates you, please edit or comment to indicate whether you'd accept the nomination, and feel free to add anything else about you that the community should know. We'd like to have at least two moderators; a moderator should always have a peer to check with on tricky matters or to defer to where there's conflict of interest.
Update: We have appointed Canina and samcarter as moderators. Thanks to everyone for the nominations and the two of you for being willing to serve Power Users.
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I would like to suggest Canina.
Although there aren't yet so many posts in which we could get to know how others handle things, I think they could be a good moderator for these reasons:
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based on their activity they seem to have a wide area of interests, which should be helpful in a phase in which the sites shapes its scope.
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they are already very active in curating the site's content like editing posts, so they seem to care about the quality of the site.
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they've written several comments detailing out the problems of posts and giving suggestions how to improve them. This seems to be a good qualification for providing guidance to users.
Cons: I'm a cat person and afraid of dogs :)
Promoting this from a comment thread: samcarter has contributed a lot of both content and curation and would be a good addition to the moderator team -- and has confirmed in that thread that cats and dogs can work together here.
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