Moderation policy

[SwampFae]

It's a team effort, but obviously we need to act as individuals whenever something needs to be done. Essentially, we're individuals who act on behalf of the team.

This, basically.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Just pitching in because largely the Mod Team follow guidelines I posted.

Just wondering do we have individual moderators for individual topics / forums on here? I was under the impression that it was a moderation team, so all the mods contributed to all the topics, but the post above seems to disagree with this.

Since around the time Zooggy, Fae and Iron were taken into the Mod Team, we stopped using individual forum Moderators, except where appropriate for particular forum functions, such as in the WoW section for the Officers.

What that means is that any of the Mod Team could pitch in at any time on any Mod issue. All Mod issues get raised in the private Mod forum, which includes threads automatically created for post reports and infractions.

I, in particular, can get quite riled by some Mod issues and deliberately take myself out of the picture to prevent the situation switching from light touch to first warning to nuclear response. Any Mod gets the option to bow out at any time and pass the issue back to the team. Helps keep us sane. Broadly, it's the practical application of my "don't post hot" rule.

Can anyone clarify what the policy is?

Happy with D's answer:

It's a team effort, but obviously we need to act as individuals whenever something needs to be done. Essentially, we're individuals who act on behalf of the team.

Similarly, all actions get reported back and any other individual can step in on any issue. We sometimes barter or someone volunteers as being most "suitable" for a particular issue.

All in all, it's a structure designed to help spread (emotional?) load across a team while empowering individuals to make calls at the time on behalf of the team.

All very Musketeer: all for one, one for all.

That help?

 

[BiG D]

If we're going to keep quoting my answer, I'd like to add 'collaborate' to the second sentence somewhere. I'm not really fussed where.