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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote (edited )

These are my personal preferences, especially from when I was just a moderator and not an admin:

  • I do as little as possible in terms of actually changing what others say.
  • I keep an eye out for breaches of the Terms of Service, and I discuss unclear ones in the meta chat.
  • I do what I can to have good politics for the particular forum, i.e. I’ve done a lot of reading about f/Sex_Work from a radical perspective. Still, I'm not a sex worker so I'd hand that over in less than a heartbeat to one.
  • In general, but especially in sensitive forums like f/abuse, f/offmychest, and f/radmentalhealth, I think it’s very important to have extra good politics and always respond thoughtfully and compassionately when people are sharing themselves.
  • Raddle requires moderators to give reasons why they delete other’s content - so making those reasons as clear as possible seems desirable, especially if deleting something from a user who is not brand new. Sometimes archiving the whole page and pasting the archived link in the “reason” box is helpful. Transparency is our friend.
  • Sometimes when I delete someone’s post I think it’s also worthwhile to message them directly and explain it. For example, in f/Africa news is generally not allowed, so if somebody posts news I’ll delete it, I repost it elsewhere (usually f/news) and send the OP a message explaining why.

(Lately I’ve worried also that I have undue influence and have been working on mitigating that. Like this post, I debated whether to respond at all, or to wait some time before posting. I worry that I might close out conversation, if I try to be comprehensive, and also that some people might misinterpret my answer as some sort of policy).

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