On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:07:14PM -0600, brynn wrote:
Hi Friends, As it turned out, only me and a couple of other people were interested in drafting the rules and guidelines for the new forum. So we can get more eyes on it, and possibly more professional opinions about it, I'd like to ask the community to have a look at it.
Yay! It's awesome seeing this task has come along so well.
I have no background in writing such documents, so it's purely alayperson's whack at it. I feel quite confident about the contents, based on my years of experience in Inkscape forums. But the format of the document, and possibly some of the language might need some technical advice.
So any an all comments and suggestions about the format or languageare very welcome.
https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/content/blob/master/articles/Forum%20Rul...
(I've left it locked to editing, so everyone sees the same doc, forthis first review. Then I'll unlock it afterwards.)
"Prerequisites for being a moderator"
* Age requirements * Time availability
It also mentions requiring previous experience as a forum moderator (on an external forum I suppose?) I take it you expect there's going to be plenty enough people with past experience?
"Moderator Duties and Responsibilities"
#3: On mailing lists, I've found the phrase "Let's all keep discussions civil" to work well and have the desired effect, and would suggest including that phrasing here too.
In addition to Inactive Moderators, can you add some guidance on what steps to do if a moderator is not behaving acceptably? I'm imagining this might either be a unanimous vote of the other moderators, or perhaps if that won't work, some kind of escalation to a higher authority, or something. I'm imagining this will be exceedingly rare, but having a process spelled out might help it be even more rare. ;-)
"Complaints"
I think some text may be worth adding here regarding, "What if I feel a moderator is treating me unfairly?" Escalating to the CoC is appropriate for major issues, but for minor complaints about a moderator it may be better if there is some guidance on how to address it within the forum moderation team.
The Forum Etiquette section is great, and I wonder if it should be at the top of the document, since that's probably what you want *everyone* to read. Unless your plan is to have this officially live here, but cut and paste it into appropriate areas of the forum.
Thanks for working on this, it reads very easy and as a lot of common sense. It'll make a great foundation to build on.
Bryce
Thank you very much, brynn
PS - I'm also posting about this in the forums.
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