Re: [Mindshare] Community callout: Fedora Moderation Guidelines

[Justin W. Flory (he/him)]

(moving council-discuss to BCC, easier to facilitate on Mindshare list)


Thanks for re-sharing this Radka. I think this is good advice. It also
points out an interesting tension between asynchronous platforms
(mailing lists, Discourse, git forge issues, etc.) and synchronous
platforms (IRC, Discord, Telegram, Matrix/Riot, etc.).

Asynchronous platforms usually have better tools and facilities for
logging action taken, like you mentioned in your blog post. Synchronous
platforms usually lack an automated tool by default to do these things.

I wonder if moderation guidelines might also include suggestions of
tools for different platforms, to help mods and admins make the right
choices for community management tools.


- Justin


On 5/22/20 1:10 PM, Radka Gustavsson wrote:
>  I'm glad to see some overlap with our moderation guidelines :)
>  https://rhea.dev/articles/2017-04/Moderation-guidelines
>  
>  Feel free to give it a read and a thought as well.
>  
>  Regards,
>  Radka
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>  On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 6:19 PM Justin W. Flory (he/him)
>  <jflory7(a)gmail.com <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>  
>      Hi Mindshare, Stephen, and Fedora Council,
>  
>      Stephen Snow is working on creating a set of Fedora Moderation
>      Guidelines for community moderators:
>  
>          https://pagure.io/ModeratorGuidelines/tree/master
>  
>      I want to give this community work a call-out because it is
>      strategically important work to standardize moderation best practices in
>      a large, decentralized community like Fedora.
>  
>      Stephen is leading good work here and it is an opportunity to
>      collaborate instead of starting from scratch. There is great potential
>      for Fedora to innovate on a new kind of First in open source community
>      management best practices, aligning with the Friends Foundation.
>  
>      I'm resharing this conversation from #fedora-mindshare in IRC to the
>      Mindshare mailing list for context:
>  
>  
>      jakfrost wrote:
>      > Hello all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Stephen
>      Snow and I am involved with Fed Magazine, Silverblue, and generally
>      in the community
>      >
>      > I have begun the start of a guidelines document on proper
>      moderator actions
>      >
>      > Originally this document was intended for the
>      ask.fedoraproject.org <http://ask.fedoraproject.org> and
>      discussion.fedoraproject.org <http://discussion.fedoraproject.org>
>      sites to be a guide for moderators in difficult topics'
>      >
>      > the link is here https://pagure.io/ModeratorGuidelines/tree/master
>  
>      > I would invite other Fedora groups to get involved so the document
>      can become a good well rounded GP guide to moderation and community
>      involvement
>      >
>      > @jwf suggested I introduce myself and this doc here
>  
>      jwf wrote:
>      > jakfrost: Is there anything specific you would like feedback on?
>      Or is there a specific topic about the guidelines it might help to
>      discuss?
>      >
>      > It might be a good thing to bring it up in a Mindshare meeting
>      next Wednesday.
>  
>  
>      jakfrost wrote:
>      > Well, really I was hoping the collective community would be able
>      to grow the documentation around guidelines, especially for new
>      moderators
>      >
>      > I wasn't familiar with Fedora Mindshare meetings
>      >
>      > I started it as a result of difficult moderation situations that
>      arise around Fedora at times, and the problem is compounded when the
>      moderators are new
>      >
>      > These are specific details though, the idea was to create a
>      document that encompasses the core concepts of Fedora and expresses
>      the application of moderation tasks through that lense
>      >
>      > If that helps?
>      >
>      > So to extend the reasoning, the core concepts of Fedora (First,
>      Friends, Freedom, Features) combined with the CoC and the actual
>      tasks of moderation would indicate the need of establishing
>      procedures to follow
>      >
>      > With the intent of having a consistent user experience on our
>      forums, WRT how the moderators handle topics
>      -- 
>      Cheers,
>      Justin W. Flory (he/him)
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