Forum Update - A Better Moderation System!
Hi everyone! We have been working on adding more structure, transparency and adding to the quality of our community experience. Forums are a big part of our site and one thing that can help improve the quality of our forums is a better moderation system. This is a trial and we will learn as we go. It is a new tool in its basic form and we are open to feedback and learning from experience as we use it across our forums!
What is new?
Forum Mentors, Member Leaders, and Teen Stars will now be able to classify a forum post when they edit it to fit the forum guidelines. They will have the following options (as well as the option to not classify if it is for other reasons / at author's request):
Inappropriate Language/Content
Whenever a post is edited, you get feedback on why a part of it was modified or deleted but classifying these posts will allow us to get more data on forum usage and improve the quality of our forums. As of now, you will not receive a warning or a coaching email if your posts get flagged as the edited post will reflect the reasoning of the edit.
Additionally, now forum mentors will be able to report a forum post for spam or inappropriate content when they delete a post. If you are reported for spam or inappropriate content, that will mean instant rejection of your account. Of course, forum mentors can only use these options if they are 100% sure that the post is spam or the post is inappropriate (sex chats, role play, etc). If a forum mentor is found to be abusing this tool, they will lose the forum mentor badge permanently along with additional consequences decided in accordance with our behavior points system. The aim of these added options is to significantly reduce spam and improve the quality of our forums.
If a post is edited or deleted at the request of the poster or for reasons not related to forum guidelines violations then there will be no flagging/categorization of the post by the forum mentor. The tool will only be used to report posts that violate the forum guidelines.
A big thank you to @Mel @Monbon & @Anomalia for their support in making this happen!
Love this! Thanks for implementing such a wonderful system.
@Hope
Thanks for the transparency!
@Hope Thank you so much for this! I'm really glad that it has finally happened! Thank you as well to @Mel, @Anomalia and @Monbon for consistent effort in maintaining the forums 💜
Thanks for he update!
I prefer my post to get deleted than someone changing my words. thanks
@Hope exciting feature! One question, I agree we must personally be 100% sure before using the tool but I guess I am worried about making mistakes and facing consequences. Is there a way we can keep it flagged without a decision so perhaps someone else on the forum team can decide? (I hope this makes sense)
Thank you for the updates
I'm not sure what to say.. But thanks for accepting me
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